You can almost picture the art-deco posters on the wall of every cinderblock building, can’t you? Google-paranoia is growing every day on the blog sphere. Will it be justified someday, or has it been already? We see Search Engine Journal is the latest to call attention to just how powerful Google is. It does bear [...]

A stunning new report from Fast Company asks Why Are the Rich So Good at the Internet? It kind of seems obvious at first, but even within the tiers of people well-able to afford technology, there’s a difference in how much you use the Internet depending on your income. The report is fascinating, and puzzling. [...]

A web design firm has been fined to the tune of $11,000 for violating Australia’s 2003 Spam Act. This is heartening news – however slowly the wheels of justice turn, they do turn eventually. But it’s also a sober reminder of just how hard it is to fight unethical web marketing practices. For every one [...]

Generation Y is the one with people born during the last two decades of the 20th century, after Gen X and before the millennials. They’re hitting their 20s now, becoming the most coveted market demographic because they have the earning power without having piled up debt, and because loyalties formed now may last a lifetime. [...]

It’s something for us all to think about. We just saw the report on how More Than 1 Million Web Sites Were Serving Malware in the last quarter and it’s hair-raising to think that any one of us could have a compromised site on our hands. You’d naturally say “No way! I’m safe and sound!” [...]

What with all the buzz, hype, and excitement over social networking, you’d think some of the founding websites in the game would stick it out for a few years. Alas, ’tis not the case. While we still have excitement unabated for Twitter and Facebook, for every one of them, there are several more that have [...]

We love a good Internet investigation, so we got a real kick out of Gawker’s look inside a smear campaign. Things we learned this time around: 4channers don’t all like electro-pop. Apparently they’re 50/50 split heavy metal and indie. 4chan got their site’s founder voted Time magazine’s most influential person. On a related note, Time [...]

One doesn’t often think of blogging or webmastering as being a hazardous activity. Unless your laptop catches fire, there’s usually very few threats to your personal safety. But every now and then we’re reminded of how that changes when your online work is of a politically loaded nature and/or brings you to cross international borders. [...]

Sometimes you find a merely great post, and sometimes you find a post that makes you want to whoop, “Preach it from the rooftops, brother!” Sitepoint has one such post recently, about the 10 Common Mistakes Made by Novice Web Developers. It’s worth a read, a bookmark, and a good study later. It might help [...]