Internet Relay Chat (aka IRC) is an older form of communication on the internet. It's an online discussion system where you join "channels," which are basically chat rooms. I frequent several technical channels but recently have been spending some time in one centered around SEO. The topics of discus...
Matt and I have been banging our heads trying to find a solution to developing an automated system for measuring whether a document's text is relevant to a targeted term or phrase. It's so no easy task. We first looked for solutions from Dr. Garcia's excellent work in the area of on-topic analysis. In that paper, ori...
One of the most dissapointing features to the Newsweek article is that, despite my pleading, the editors chose not to feature any of the photos which included Matt & Kat - nor were they mentioned in the article, prompting Matt's mom to exclaim - "you got robbed!" Indeed they did, and, although it's a small condol...
It's been quite a week - first a slashdotting, now an article in Newsweek. The print edition is coming out tomorrow, but you can read the article online here. I think the title is supposed to be "Hotwiring your Search Engine Ran...
SEOmoz's Beginner's Guide was just Slashdotted. We'll see how the server holds up, but there's a lot of very big files to be accessed there... Sorry for any lag. More to report soon. UPDATE: The lag should be gone by now. We made some...
I've been wanting to write about the 9 Rules Network for sometime now. They've got a good looking design, they link to some well-known (and little-known bloggers) and have a Web 2.0ey (just coined that adjective) feel that is backed up by ...
The New Yorker magazine, which I read from time to time on vacation or long plane trips, has an online site - CartoonBank.com - that allows users to browse through their tens of thousands of cartoons (sorted by subject) a...
For the last 4 weeks, I've been toiling away in my non-existant free time on a Beginner's Guide to SEO. My goal was to have a comprehensive document that I could reference to the many newcomers I engage through email, forums and in person. The final product is something I'm already proud of, though I hope to get even more feedback and improve it over time. I...
There's a new advertising format at SEOmoz, and the bat-signal will be the use of [AD] in the title of the blog posts. Thanks to your feedback and our intention to provide the best possible value to our readers and our advertisers, we're switching away from banners (hopefully you're ...
I've been trying to find something "relevant" to point to a Performancing, Nick Wilson & Patrick Gavin's new foray into the blog publishing sphere and ran into this - The 80/20 Rule of Focus. From Nick: The problem in brief is that some, and by my reckoning, many, blogger...
Mister Snitch has an entry today on the 7 kinds of blogs. There's sneezy, itchy, spotty, scratchy, stinky, slimy and cranky. No... wait. Those are my nicknames for popular SEO...
Scratch pointed to this - a list of 10 Rules for Web Startups - from Evan Williams. Evan helped found Blogger (prior to...
As several of my close associates know, SEOmoz was to be featured in the January issue of Wired Magazine (which hits newsstands around Dec. 19). In October, Brad St...
Here's a virtual lesson in how to make one of the best industrial design exhibits into one of the worst websites I've ever tried to use. The MOMA (New York City's Museum of Modern Art) has an exhibit on industrial, medical and civil design that has helped to improve safet...