Nov - 22nd
I Got My Eye On You
Posted at 5:15 pm | Filed Under blogthropology
No, really… I think this may be a sign that I am watching too much The Walking Dead. By the way, this would look great on you or your boyfriend/girlfriend on a t-shirt!
Nov - 22nd
Google Says “Fuck It” For The Christmas Season, Removes The Ability To Report AdSense Violations
Posted at 3:57 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines
It has to be tough policing a program like AdSense. It must be exceptionally difficult during the holiday season, when the payoff to running scams grows so much more. It is so tough, in fact, that this year as the holiday shopping season grows near, with Black Friday just a few short days away, that [...]
Oct - 13th
True Love Means Never Giving Up…
Posted at 11:44 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, motivational posters, Social Media
“True Love means never giving up” – many a stalker were born from this one innocent sounding phrase.
Oct - 10th
Motivationally Speaking…
Posted at 8:04 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, motivational posters, Social Media
The truth is much less pretty than the actual picture.
Oct - 8th
Brandlink Communications, TheBloggess, PR Fails, and Fallout
Posted at 12:51 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, customer service, freedom-of-speech, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, SEO, Social Media
Before reading the rest of this post, if you are not already an avid fan of TheBloggess, and have not read about the PR company vice president who called her a “fucking bitch” due to him being clueless who it was his company was pitching, then you should start here first: Brandlink Communications. Go ahead [...]
Sep - 4th
Taylor Swift’s, Um, Like, YouTube Interview
Posted at 3:32 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, freedom-of-speech, Google, nerdiness, smiles
Taylor Swift In which Taylor says “um”, “like”, talks like a Scotsman, laughs, and sometimes gets excited. Sure, she said lots of other stuff too… but I didn’t include any of it in this video. Proof that Taylor can make you smile regardless of what she is saying:
May - 4th
What’s A Faster Way To Get A Virus Than Browsing Porn? That’s Right: The New Facebook
Posted at 12:23 pm | Filed Under bad research, blogthropology, coding, Facebook, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
Quit staring, it’s just a thumb. Facebook has never been known for it’s safety. It is a site designed so that the least Internet savvy people out there can sign up and network with millions of other people, both those they know and those they don’t, with only a minimal amount of technical know-how required [...]
Feb - 21st
Email To The FSF About WordPress’s GPL License Violations
Posted at 3:29 pm | Filed Under blogthropology
So, after it became obvious that the WordPress developers responding to having the GPL violations pointed out to them were unwilling to admit that they needed to abide to the license, I decided that it was best to email the FSF themselves and ask about the violation issues. The email I sent is below:
Feb - 18th
As It Turns Out, WordPress Itself Is Not 100% GPL Compliant After All (And They Violate The MIT License As Well)
Posted at 9:52 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, Wordpress
Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather interesting tidbit of information. I opened Twitter in the middle of a conversation between between Chip Bennett and Ben Cook, and I saw this tweet: Curiosity piqued, I dug back through the tweets until I found a link to the thread Ben was referring to. It turns [...]
Jan - 31st
How Matt Cutts Leveraged The Stack Overflow And Hacker News Communities In Redefining The Phrase “Content Farms”
Posted at 4:52 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, marketing, search engines, SEO, spin
A little over a week ago, on the Friday before last, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Web Spam Team, wrote a post on the Official Google Blog titled “Google search and search engine spam”. This post, and the upcoming changes it discussed, were most likely in response to a growing trend of dissatisfaction with [...]
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