It’s no secret that Digg, Reddit and other news and media aggregators are a target for search marketers. In my quest to learn more about the intricacies of these social environments, I sought after a community to review and understand a bit more. The trouble I ran into was that with sites like Digg was that there are too many active users and too much going on at any one moment to form hypotheses on. While analyzing the marketing opportunities…
We’re paying top dollar to be told that we’re either bullshit artists, or wasting away our time and careers. That my friends, is bullshit. The search marketing industry is all frenzied now that Jason Calacanis decided to upset some of the best SEOs in the industry. Again. The question I’m left to ask is — Why are we really surprised? When Calanis’ stated that SEO is bullshit in his keynote at SES Chicago, everyone was ready to tear him a…
Best. Week. Ever. Aside from missing my wife and little man, the whole time was incredible. From the people I’d been waiting to meet to the people I didn’t know were out there… wow. Amazingly good times. Fittingly, the week ends with me pulling an all nighter, blogging. Many good times, but there’s no value in blogging them. You were either there, or not. Much love to my new and old friends.
Armed with an RSS subscription checking blogs for any appearance of “Eric Lander”, I can usually tell when people are talking about me (or, a highly accomplished human genome scientist, who I am not). Today, I was greeted to the wonderful news that I’ve been nominated for my work on Search Engine Journal for three SEMMY awards. WTF is a SEMMY you ask? Dude, it’s the proverbial who’s who of search marketing, spreading the love and rewarding others for top…
As a general web developer, I often rely on the creature comforts of running a Windows environment. That’s certainly true in an office with dozens of others all running on the same platform and network. When I mentally check out though and head home — I could care less about what I’m using — and MORE about what I’m accomplishing. After a week long bout with installing Ubuntu 7.10 on an aging Dell Inspiron 5000e, I’m pleased to say —…
I’ve made it a point not to read too far into my notes from SMX until next week when I’ll start blogging more in depth posts… but I simply can’t resist the temptation tonight to just address the holier than though attitude practiced by some wikipedians. So, if you’re a wikipedia volunteer, editor or admin… please listen up. I understand that your time is valuable. Donating endless hours in an effort to improve the world’s most popular reference tool is…