Since I know that most of the readers here are big fans of free content, I figured this review of Bittorrent clients by Michael Calore might be of interest. His final take for Windows users is µTorrent and for Mac, the official Bittor...
Anybody getting good traffic from StumbleUpon.com? That site first started getting my attention a few months ago while examining my logs. I didn't think that it would be a serious source of traffic but the referrals have gone up and now I am avera...
I've lived in Seattle for 26 years (not counting a year spent in Philadelphia as a kid) and have never seen my city as enthusiastic and engaged as they are right now. The closest approximation I can make to the experience of being in Seattle right now is...
Back in the days before the web, many of the MS Windows bundles games had "back to work" buttons that would open up a blank spreadsheet document on top of the game in order to "hide" a worker's activities from perusing bosses doing their walk around. Hilarious...
There's only one thing on my mind today... the Superbowl. For those who aren't aware, the Seattle Seahawks have been derogatorily referred to as the Sea-Turkeys for about 20 years here in my hometown. There have been some winning seasons over the past two decades but, unt...
I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. It's not an easy book to describe, so I'll let Malcolm speak for himself: It's a book about rapid cogniti...
The re-design of SEOmoz has proven itself to be a very difficult and time consuming task, as you can see I'm still working on the header. Rand suggested I write a blog entry so you can all see how things are coming along and share in my turmoil. :) Some of the designs turned out okay, others are just plain horrible. I've found my best work comes by accident, so I often just ...
I want to extend a warm welcome to Michael Martinez, who's agreed to join SEOmoz's blog team at my request. I know. I know. Michael's not your typical personality ...
I just posted this to Sitepoint's buy & sell forum, but I thought it was worth a mention here, too. SEOmoz is selling an old site, BeautySteals.com, that we simply can't manage any longer. The site is...
With so many phone calls coming in nowadays, I thought it might be interesting to diagram the anatomy of what a request for services call to SEOmoz looks like. Because the number on the website routes directly to my cellphone when I'm not in the office, I get calls at 5:30am and 10:00pm, even on the weekends. Naturally, I turn the phone to silent when I'm sleeping, but I've had calls wi...
Jeffrey Zeldman, who already has a big reputation in webdev, wrote a very amusing and thought-provoking article on Web 2.0, AJAX and the trends in the venture capital and the investment world with regards to the ma...
In the midst of re-designing SEOmoz I decided I really needed a change of pace. I've only lightly used AJAX, so I decided to build an AJAX powered tool that looks up the geographic location of an IP address. It seemed simple enough to build and I figured it'd ...
Dr. King is, to me, one of the greatest heroes of the modern era. Every year I find myself wishing I could do more to honor his memory and this year, there's a few sites on the web that are doing a great job: Reme...
Today our building's web access is down for one reason or another. Thank my lucky stars I've got a laptop with one of these fancy Verizon Wireless broadband cards. It worked spectacularly no matter where I was in southern FL and it's just as handy here in Seattle for emergencies just like this one. We paid $10 + ...