Friday, October 29th, 2010
People wanted more pictures of their favorite SEO's. For Day Two, we have many more pictures of the SEO's for you. Alas no dancing firebreathing girls today, just a night at the pub.
Personally I found Day Two to hold more surprises and insights in terms of SEO practice. The big highlight for me was Martin MacDonald's hands-on talk on how he rescued a thin content site which had been wiped out in Google's MayDay update.
Sam Crocker, Ben Hendrickson, Andy Davies and Jane Copland all offered actionable insights which you wouldn't easily learn from just keeping up with published SEO material. Rand Fishkin and Will Critchlow's faceoff on big budget linkbuilding covered big picture issues which stimulated long term thoughts on SEO, picking up where Dave Naylor's presentation on Google left off.
ProSEO branding 105
Russell Smith BBC Data Journalism 106
Keep reading ProSEO Seminar in London Day Two Photos
By Alec
SEO |
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
The new MacBook Airs are adorable, particularly the 11". Should you get one...reluctantly I must say probably not. Here's why.
MacBook Air 11" & 13" side by side: notice how pleasingly compact
the 11" is - can it replace a MacBook Pro though?
No standard memory socket.
We own lots of Macs in this category at Foliovision (old MacMini 2 GHz with 9400 GPU: a great basic machine). The bare minimum memory for a really great work experience on an OS X computer is 3 GB. Apple should be putting 4GB soldered on and leaving us at least a single installable memory slot. I'd put in another 4 GB, other might even put in an 8 GB sodimm (Samsung has started mass production).
Keep reading What's wrong with the new MacBook Air?
By Alec
IT |
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Great first day at the ProSEO 2010 Seminar in London with SEOmoz and Distilled. Wonderful to see old friends again. Here are just a few pictures from the day and some more of the superb night which Lynsey Little organised for us at the opening night party.
These are just a few selects, uncorrected and uncropped. Distilled will have many more photos of the speakers in their own coverage of the seminar.
Click on any picture to enlarge with Lightbox.
The Day
Rand Fishkin
Caitlin Krumdieck
Keep reading First Day at ProSEO seminar with Distilled and SEOmoz
By Alec
Internet Marketing, SEO |
Friday, October 15th, 2010
This article describes a simple way how to update your plugin by using the TortoiseSVN. TortoiseSVN is a powerful tool for subversion control, in your case used for the management of your plugin stored in the WordPress repository.
The main idea of SVN is to monitor changes being made by different users on the same files, in order to avoid uncontrolled overwriting of someone else's work.
To get started, get your copy of TortoiseSVN and install it at your Windows computer. Following steps will guide you through the whole process of downloading, updating and committing changes into your WordPress plugin.
Step 1 - The Initial Check-Out
By Zdenka
WordPress |
Friday, October 15th, 2010
SVN is a great tool, as it allows you to maintain different versions of your WordPress plugins and synchronize its development among multiple programmers.
This article shows the exact steps of how to update your plugin descriptions on WordPress plugins directory using a Mac with OS X. You don't need to install anything.
Phase I - Checkout
First we must download the plugin from SVN to a local copy. This procedure is called checkout:
Keep reading How to update your WordPress plugins from a local copy on Mac
By Martin
WordPress |
Monday, October 4th, 2010
I'm always amused to see the right wingers shout about how the market rules and how the invisible hand will solve all problems. Actually in place of government regulation what you will see are cartels and mafia structures. And there will be no one to intervene on your behalf. You'll take your medicine and say thank you.
A perfect example are the mobile telephone providers whether T-Com, Orange or in the case to follow, Verizon. The only reason they don't just take whatever money they want from you all the time is fear of the regulator. For three years, Verizon hammered any customer who accidentally clicked on a data button on his/her phone $1.99 for initiating data use.
sony ericsson single touch data button
I don't know if you've owned a recent Sony-Ericsson telephones but for years it's been almost impossible to avoid starting a data connection at least 10 times/month. Just by clicking the wrong key once you were toasted.
It turns out that Verizon has stopped doing this. Not only that, Verizon is now handing the $50 million in dubious booty back to consumers. They are repaying consumers only thanks to consumer complaints to the FCC, one of those wasteful government organs:
"We're gratified to see Verizon agree to finally repay its customers," FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Michele Ellison said in a statement. "But questions remain as to why it took Verizon two years to reimburse its customers and why greater disclosure and other corrective actions did not come much, much sooner."
Next time a tea party starts somewhere near you, tell them this story. Without civil oversight, private enterprise is not an invisible helping hand, but the ripper's glove on your throat.
By Alec
Business |
