Slate - An online magazine that was originally owned by Microsoft and now is under the Washington Post has begun an advertising campaign featuring their roundup of "over 5 million blogs". The skyrocketing popularity of this alternative news...
American Apparel is a very clean, alternative look at the clothing industry as a whole and it's well-reflected on their highly simplistic but ultimately seductive website. The online store does a particularly good job expre...
Paralleling the topic of yesterday's "humor as link-building" subject, today I've stumbled across a site called NetDisaster that will take a given URL and turn the page into a private battlefield for Martians, meteors and other untimely disasters....
The news reporting from bloggers has evolved so much over the past 4 years that major media organizations have begun covering the reports from the blogosphere. Incredibly, this trend looks to be long term and the de-centralization of media appears to have true mom...
Craig Newmark has put together one of the most revolutionary, popular and well-thought out communities on the web. It's 1996 style design has not inhibited growth, but rather allowed the community to flourish and the largely free model has created a competitor fo...
I have been receiving some complaints about the speed of the SEOmoz tools. In the next 3-4 months, I wil be offering a paid subscription model of the tools that allow you to get answers without having to use the queue. The tools will be hosted on their own server and will provide a numbe...
An excellent site on everyday usability, from batteries to elevators, called this is broken was my first entrance to the great, NYC based site - goodexperience.com. Goodexperience offers a variety of con...
A great source for content, especially images & tools is the Creative Commons licensing website. The search system enables you to find the content you're seeking and also provides a great outlet for developers looki...
What is an ontology? In case you're disinclined to follow the link, I've quoted Wikipedia's excellent article on the subject: In computer science, an ontology...
Sometimes I love this business. Tonight is one of those nights. My grandfather (fishsi of SEW) and I are in New York City for the SES conference. He has been helping me with much of the math parts of the IR papers I'm so fond of reading lately, but today and tonight he's...
JuliesJewels, a member of Jill Whalen's HighRankings forum has an insightful and revealing post about her ...
It may seem unconventional to wear yellow sneakers with a suit, but that's what I'll be in on Monday the 28th - the first day of the Search Engine Strategies Conference. Look for a touch of yellow on the floor if you'd like to chat and feel free to criticize my Seattle fashion ...
The New York Times' online version sadly requires registration. However, I urge members of the SEO community to put aside their fears and sign up, as the coverage from the technology section is of top-notch quality. ...
An excellent, in-depth article from the Scientific American was published earlier this week. The article goes deep inside the search industry and discusses many of the cutting edge technologies and ideas that are propelling the growth and innovatio...