Mar - 23rd

Birthplace Of Google Gets Hacked: Blog On Stanford.edu Hit By Latest Wordpress Exploit

Posted at 7:51 pm | Filed Under Google, Social Media, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness

It looks like even Stanford University, where Google was born, has been victim to the latest Wordpress exploit going around.
I was poking around in the serps from the query I showed in the last post, seeing what blogs had been hit,

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Mar - 23rd

New Wordpress 2.3.3 Exploit/Vulnerability – Adds Spam Directory /wp-content/1/

Posted at 3:51 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness, scams

Ok, so I just had 2 of my WP installs hacked, on 2 different servers. This is not the same thing that Shoemoney reported on a few days back (hidden link injection), and as of yet I have not seen any definitive answers as to what it is. All of my blogs were upgraded to [...]

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Mar - 13th

Link Bait Kindergarten: Creative Thinking Must Come First

Posted at 5:58 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, nerdiness

This Tuesday Matt Cutts published a post, that he had originally written in Dec 2005, entitled SEO Advice: Getting Links, where he outlined some good ideas that can lead to getting more links in to your site naturally. Some of the concepts he touched on were things such as providing a useful service (one [...]

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Mar - 11th

Pulled Post…

Posted at 4:13 pm | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds

Today I posted a piece that made fun of online romances, something that I generally always take with a grain of salt due to having observed them in all of their forms over the many years I have been online. The one thing that they all have in common is drama, and an abundance of [...]

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Mar - 9th

Fave Offhand QOTD: Nice Shot, Lisa Barone!

Posted at 11:13 pm | Filed Under blogthropology

Today brings us one of the better offhand casual slams I have seen in a while, from a sweet innocent young lady by the name of Lisa Barone. In reference to a comment about the who uses which map services, Lisa replies:

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Mar - 5th

Official Sphinn Standpoint: Infomercials Are *Not* Spam

Posted at 4:48 am | Filed Under SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams

Last Friday, poking around, I came across an article that had been submitted to Sphinn at the beginning of the week entitled “1:1 Interview With Search Marketing Authority and Visionary Hamlet Batista”. In the description it is billed as “a great interview where Hamlet discusses his introduction to SEO/SEM, touching on his immensely successful [...]

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Mar - 3rd

Google Senior Vice Pres Dumps $8.9 Million Of GOOG Stock

Posted at 8:57 am | Filed Under Google, MSN, blogthropology

Last month Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Senior Vice President, David Drummond, made a public statement about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo, in which he characterized the move as one that rose “troubling questions”. A couple of weeks later, Google co-founder Sergey Brin echoed that sentiment, stating that he found elements of the potential union between Microsoft [...]

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