As you may have read, Scott and I made an early campaign for Worst Mozzers of the Year by abandoning our sick boss to trainset to Paris. Though we seem like horrible, horrible employees, enough people (including, hopefully, Rand) got a kick out of it to motivate me to share with you all a step-by-step...
It has been a week since we launched SEOmoz's new site design, and thus it's been a week since YOUmoz launched. We thought we'd offer up a "State of the YOUmoz Address" so that we can fully explain our intent behind creating a user-generated section on our site. Rand wanted more user participation on our new site, but he felt that th...
As some folks had already guessed, I was the MySuperProposal guy. Tonight, I proposed to Mystery Guest on her favorite show, Veronica Mars. The video is at iFilm - the response should be up very soon (but here's a spoiler, she said YES!) ...
Seeing as how I don't have enough to do today, I thought I'd run a database query that wiped out the login information for all our users. Luckily I had a backup but it was from before we launched the new site, so if you registered before then (Feb. 2nd, 2007) your account is fine. If you were a premium member or purchased an article, I had this information backed up ...
This is a podcast highlighting all the new stuff we've added to SEOmoz with the launch of our new site. I tried to cover all the new features we added, including explaining MozPoints and the details of our premium membership. SEOmoz Version 3 - New Bells and Whistles ...
The new site is up! I'm swamped right now but I plan on writing a full length blog entry about all the bells and whistles that are available sometime this weekend. I'm also going to try and do a screencast so I can visually walk everyone through the site and show all the cool stuff we've got. A few of the pages are running a bit slow due to...
Via reddit, I came across this article that analyzes television news coverage of the Darfur crisis from 2004 and 2005. Quite frankly, the piece is embarrassing. In 2005 six news networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC) averaged 21 segments that discussed Sudan, whereas they averaged 81 segments on the "Runaway Bride" woman who...
First we were all Time Magazine's Person of the Year, which is like you working your ass off on a school project, only to get it graded as "credit received " along with the rest of the class who clearly phoned it in. Now we have this article, which talks about how it's harder not to be a celebrity nowadays...
Just a quick heads up: SEOmoz is moving to a new host today. I'm going to try my best to minimize breaking stuff, but shoot me an email if anything appears busted. Hopefully the ride won't be too bumpy. I'm going to make the DNS change very soon and try my best to make it a seamless transition.Regarding the new version of the SEOmoz site, things are very close to being finished. (I kno...
Stick with me here, because this post relates to SEO...I promise...I went snowboarding for the first time last year. Despite growing up in Michigan, where I could have driven up to the UP (that's Upper Peninsula to you folks who don't point out your hometown on your hand) to hit the slopes, I had never snowboarded or skied before. The first time I tried snowboarding, I went...
Just the links, folks: The folks over at DowJones Marketwatch are so clueless about social media, it hurts. Just read their take on Scott's blog entry from last week (scroll to the 3rd article). More on ...
Oh, perspective. It's a fantastic human characteristic that, among other things, lets us compare how we once felt with how we feel now. When I began working at SEOmoz, I was aware that, in comparison to many people, I knew "a lot" about the series of tubes some call the internet, but far less than I'd soon know. Here are some of the lighter-hearted things I've learned since September 18,...
Hello. Mystery Guest here. Rand isn't feeling quite well right now, so he asked that I blog on his behalf. As most of you probably know, his father has been in the hospital for over a week now, and is currently fighting a fever that won't seem to go away. We're all hoping for the best. Rand just returned from a trip out east and headed straight from the airport to see his dad, so he's fee...
On Saturday night after the Seahawks game, I received a call from Gillian - my dad had passed out from blood loss at home and had been picked up by a 911 dispatch crew. He was taken to the hospital, where it was finally determined (just a few hours ago), that swelling in his intestine was most likely the result of an aspirin overdose (he had been ovemedicating a painful toothache) combined with...