Oh, we love getting these, and here’s somebody else who sees the fun! UK blogger IAmAGeek offers 5 ridiculous attempts at comment spam linkbuilding. If you have a blog with open comments, you’ll doubtless recognize some of these. Whether by bot or by paid link-spammer (there’s dozens of these kinds of “jobs” offered out there), [...]

The big story lately is how tech investment and business is fixing to blow up another bubble, right up to where we were at the turn-of-the-century. Can somebody find that Pets.com dog puppet again? He’s the web-bubble mascot now. Our latest hand-wringer is Techi.com, saying the tech 2.0 bubble is here. And you know what? [...]

An interesting pocket of web design is found on Naldz Graphics, with a gallery of 40 websites of rock bands. Now, the point of this post is “look at designs, be inspired in your own designs” and in fact some of these might work better for businesses other than a band. We asked our own [...]

We don’t know why it’s been so long since we linked to The Old Master Himself, but here’s Seth Godin’s five rules for your about page. Thank you, Seth, for stamping out bland business-speak with stock photos. Has anyone else noticed that all stock photo business people are light-skinned (even the Africans), in their late [...]

Steve Rubel, public relations pro, does some meditation on The Validation Era. And this is an important post to pay attention to. So often, in our web commerce world, everything is hyped through the roof, and we so seldom get the specter at the banquet who asks, “Wait a minute, what are we really seeing [...]

Two awesome resources for those interested in Twitter we’d like to share: First, there’s TwiTip, a Twitter Tips blog that stays current on all news regarding Twitter. For instance, through them we’ve learned that Twitter’s apparent hostility towards third-party Twitter clients wasn’t just our paranoia talking – they really don’t want anybody making third-party clients [...]

What? The World Wide Web is twenty??? How did this happen? It’s still just this upstart fad that will never take the place of Usenet, IRC, Gopher, and Archie, isn’t it? Bah, well, while the rest of us take our Geritol and wonder where the blast two decades went, Google is celebrating with an interactive [...]

Discovered a handy application to check up on your Digg submissions (such as your own websites), the Digg alerter. Digg.com and other social news aggregators are rising in importance comparable to Google in terms of web traffic that makes or breaks your site. The problem with courting online social-news sites is that the traffic is [...]

Even more attention needs to be given to websites that need updating. That’s because inertia is powerful on the web; it’s too easy to set up a page and forget about it. And also because technology changes so fast – it seems like only yesterday that some of these were the hottest trends going, and [...]