Shards of Consciousness

It's April 9, CSS Naked Day on the internet.Read more

Readers visit a blog in search of entertainment, knowledge, advice, tips, techniques, and practical information. When we arrive at a site, we have expectations about the type of material we will find. In order to meet these expectations, a blog needs to focus the majority of it's attention on the type of material we expect.Read more

Liz Strauss of Successful [and Outstanding] Blog(gers) may be the most famous relationship blogger on the internet today. The idea of SOBCon had it's genesis during one of the Tuesday night open comment nights for which her blog is famous. (And if you haven't attended one, please do. It's like meeting friends and family you didn't know you had.)Read more

Last October, along with many other people, I wrote a piece about Google's page rank algorithm change which led to a degrading of the page rank of blogs that hosted paid links. In that piece I discussed Google's conflict of interest in giving lower page ranks to sites that host paid links while they themselves make their money through the sales of advertising. They say the devaluation occurs based on a site hosting paid links that are not tagged nofollow. Read more

Software habits. We all have them. Until recently mine included Google Reader as my feed reader of choice. I had all my email accounts available in GMail. Firefox is my browser of choice since it has so many terrific addons that take care of things from remote blog posting to Sqlite database management. Whenever I would see something I liked in Reader, I would right click, tell it to open in a new tab, and go straight to the item's true home on the internet. Everything right there in the browser - email, research, writing, pleasure reading, work.

But then I found that Google's ideas of privacy and mine don't come anywhere near coinciding Read more