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 [...]
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 [...]
May - 2nd
How They *Really* Found Osama bin Laden
Posted at 10:40 am | Filed Under bad research, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness
No, seriously: (click to view full sized) You can click here to view the actual search.
Mar - 20th
DoD Family Pets Being Evacuated From Japan, Civilian Teachers Told They Must Stay
Posted at 12:01 pm | Filed Under freedom-of-speech, Japan, lackofmeds, priorities
I have a friend who is a teacher. A few years back he got the opportunity of a lifetime, one of his dreams come true: he got invited by the DoDDS (the Department of Defense Dependents Schools) to come work for them, teaching dependents of military personnel on military bases around the world. He was [...]
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 - 30th
Matt Cutts Criticizes Deceptive Ads, Doesn’t Realize Google Is The One Serving Them
Posted at 4:00 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines
Yesterday over on Daggle.com Danny Sullivan published a post titled, Of Misleading Acai Berry Ads & Fake Editorial Sites. In the article Danny discuses a rising trend of deceptive marketing practices involving fake news sites, the way they rip people off with products they are selling, and the fact that authority sites such as the [...]
Jan - 27th
Google Censors Torrent Sites – Except For The Pirate Bay
Posted at 12:49 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
Yesterday Search Engine Land reported about Google removing piracy-related terms from it’s Instant Search, which includes the word torrents, names of torrent sites, names of torrent clients, and other file sharing sites such as RapidShare and Megaupload. This does raise some concerns, seeing as how, as SELand’s Matt McGee mentions, torrents and file sharing sites [...]
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