We love a good caper story as much as the next mystery fan, and this perky after-crime report is a good look at cyber-security matters and how they fail. In How Hackers Stole 24,000 Files From The Pentagon, the breach is traced to some very obvious methods. Briefly, they slapped together a bogus PDF document [...]

One recent SEO post snagged our attention: Understanding the 98 Google Local Ranking Factors. Pause and absorb that: ninety-eight! And that’s just to rank you on a local business scale. The ranking factors are broken down on the Local-Search Ranking Factors results page to 79 positive and 18 negative factors. Within these factors lurk such [...]

While the purported story on Search Engine Watch is how US and Canada interest in Facebook is decreasing, we were a little distracted by how much of the globe Facebook has conquered. Outside of China, Russia, Brazil, and the ex-Soviet-Block, Facebook conquers all. If anything, the decrease in North America could be a sign that [...]

So monumental was the launch of Google+, the social network answer to Facebook, that for a while the rumor mill chocked up to hyperspace speed and started cranking out random statements. One of them was the rumor that Google would shut down Blogger in favor of integrating it with Google+. ZDNet works to dispel the [...]

Some web developers are divided on whether to use background textures as a design element. To say the least. Now, we’re not talking about ’90s-style tiled animated Bart Simpsons or anything tacky like that, just using a texture as part of a border or surrounding design element just to provide some visual roughness. Smashing Magazine [...]

If you haven’t heard of Jane Friedman yet, you should. She’s the CEO and co-founder of Open Road Integrated Media, which is, in a nutshell, trying to modernize book media for the digital age. How refreshing to see a publisher who embraces the online world instead of the way other publishers lurk in their cave [...]

We like Michael Graywolf’s thoughts on What Makes a Good Corporate Blog, and at the bottom there’s some take-aways that any web entrepreneur would be wise to heed. But some readers might wonder, “Great list, but how do I put it in action?” Well, here’s some ideas: Use your company blog as a way to [...]

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), [...]