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City Requests Removal from Google Maps

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune today reports that the city of North Oaks, Minnesota, has requested that all street-level images of their community be removed from Google Maps.
Google says that no community has ever issued such a blanket request. This doesn’t surprise me - North Oaks, sometimes known as the ‘Forbidden City,’ is somewhat unique. All roads [...]

Another Fine Rant… Pre-empted

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I’ve been planning a rant about the baby-industrial complex, which I have concluded to be EVEN MORE EVIL than the marriage-industrial complex. However, it seems a new book’s been released that may even include something like research on the whole topic, not just my general rantiness.
Amazon sez:
Pamela Paul (Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, [...]

Snake Attacks Dog

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

It’s strange the things one discovers online while doing potentially productive work on behalf of clients.
For instance, today the Associated Press tells us the horrifying tale of a giant python eating a dog in Australia.
They even provide pictures!
I doubt this is going to be useful for my client, but this is important news to be [...]

Go, Peeps, Go!

Monday, June 18th, 2007

A few shout-outs:
1. To Sarah Bernier, aka Sarita, for her debut at Search Engine Strategies Latino Edition. Her session was blogged over at Search Engine Roundtable.
2. To the legend known as David Temple, who has accepted a position as Region Head of Search, Asia Pacific Region, at Neo@Ogilvy. It seems like only yesterday when [...]

Prediction: Video Mania

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Now that Universal Search has been announced, and covered in the mainstream media (Reuters, WSJ, etc. etc.), the next wave of SEO frenzy will be clients coming to their search marketing team or interactive agency agog about video.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I forsee a lot of awkward conversations about video:

Client: We need [...]