Jun - 24th
How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation
Posted at 10:11 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, web design
Getting hacked sucks, plain and simple. It can affect your rankings, cause your readership to be exposed to virus and trojan attacks, make you an unwilling promoter to subject material you may not actually endorse, and in many cases cause the loss of valuable content. However, once it happens it is usually best to [...]
Jun - 10th
CNN Refuses To Discuss Kucinich’s Articles Of Impeachment?
Posted at 7:48 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, Social Media, lackofmeds, scams, the prez
Last night Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. This would be, to most reasonable thinking persons, newsworthy. CNN, however,
Jun - 10th
Google Updates List Of Third-Party Ad Providers
Posted at 2:38 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds
Well, that was quick. For those of you not using my Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget, which automatically updates whenever Google changes their list of third-party ad providers, it’s time to update your privacy policies once again.
If you are already using the widget,
May - 23rd
Googlebot Creates Pages Instead of Simply Indexing Them: New FORM Crawling Algo Goes Bad
Posted at 8:03 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, coding, web design
Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Matt Cutts discussed it here last month. I had noticed the phenomena
May - 20th
With Only 14 Accident Free Days At Google, Should Google Health Come With A Warning?
Posted at 4:12 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, web design
Often times in factories around the country, looking up on the wall you can see a chalkboard or a sign boasting of how many consecutive “accident free” days those on the job have enjoyed. These are placed there as a form of encouragement for workers to be careful, to encourage healthy competition between departments, and [...]
Apr - 10th
From: Da Law Offices Of Vinny and Guido, Esquires
Posted at 1:27 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology
To: Mr. Patrick Curl
From: Da Law Offices Of Vinny and Guido, Esquires
Regardings, as it were: Your Joke on one Mr. Darren Rowse
Dear Mr. Patrick,
Listen ups. Recently it has come to our attentions dat yous decided ta play what yous thought would be a funny on our dear friend, one Mr Darren Rowse. Yous thought, what? [...]
Apr - 4th
Advanced Web Usability: 5 Important Lessons Learned From Digg
Posted at 7:18 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design
In the early days of the Internet, one of the biggest attractions was the fact that absolutely anybody was able to sign up for a free email account, and with it get their very own webpage. No design experience whatsoever was required for this… and it showed. Gaudy was vogue, and if you doubt me [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Feb - 29th
Did Twitter Just Get Mybloglog-Dotted?
Posted at 2:43 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, nerdiness
Today Mybloglog went live with a new profile layout. In it they have incorporated a feature, by default, that shows everybody what their friends are Twittering (assuming that they have added in their Twitter information, of course). Twitter has apparently promptly responded by having a nervous breakdown.
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