Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
It seems that with the infiltration of spam sites and splogs into Google’s search index, they came up with a duplicate content filter to solve this problem. These spam sites use automated tools to scrape content from other websites with the hopes of creating keyword dense pages that rank high in the search engines and [...]
British band Duran Duran are to create a virtual island within online game Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts. Second Life is an online 3D digital world, which is imagined, created and owned by the residents. Are virtual celeb appearances the next big thing online?
What a great idea. I’ve spent very [...]
Topics covered: Song titles, P.T. Barnum, hooks, headlines, direct response, songwriting, the internet…
I voted against this lousy bill for two reasons: because net neutrality and internet build-out are crucial to building a more modern and fair Information Society, and both were pushed aside by the Republicans.
Link: Stopping the Big Giveaway
From Senate: Where They Stand Now (List Updated 9-15):
Talking Points Memo is keeping a tally of where Senators stand as we close in on the vote. (The latest update occurred June 15.)
Find your Senators’ names. See where they stand. If they support Net Neutrality, tell them to keep it up. If they oppose it [...]
Amanda Congdon and Rocketboom want to save the internet. Contact congress and spread the word.
I realized that I had asked a question about the President using PowerPoint a couple of days ago and practically the next day watched a former Vice President do exactly that. Except he wasn’t using PowerPoint, he was using Keynote. Yep. That’s right. The creator of the internet uses a Mac.
And the South Park episode [...]
From Introducing ad scheduling:
Today we released ad scheduling, an advanced campaign management feature that allows you to determine when your ads run.
I’ve been waiting for Adwords ad scheduling for a long time.
It used to be that if you had one of your Google ads disapproved, Google would manually review the edited ad before making it active again. Now all you do is edit the ad and it goes live. No more manual review.
Cool. Because I sometimes waited 24 to 48 hours before my ads would go [...]
According to John Geraci, Millennials (Americans born 1977-1994) mistrust advertising. But they recognize the power of long-term messages–like repeated TV ads–as opposed to the internet’s instant advertising methods.
“New technologies rarely actually replace existing technologies. They tend to reposition them.”
A fundamental difference between the digital and analog ages is content in the analog world is tied [...]
I got two great links from Steve Rubel today.
First is The Web 2.0 Awards. Over 300 Web 2.0 sites in 38 categories.
Second is Keotag. The first thing I did was grab the tag feeds for “graham english”. It’s a slick way to keep track of what people are saying about you on the internet. And [...]
A nasty war has been flaming around Dave Winer. It’s sad to watch. I have to admit that since I’ve been reading Dave’s blog for a long time now, I find he has a neurotic attachment to being the victim from time to time. He is only human. It’s nothing a little 3–2–1 couldn’t fix. [...]
From Anything but business as usual:
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, coined “The Long Tail“: A theory based on “the world of abundance” where instead of being obsessed with the head of the tail–the 20 percent of products that are hits–it’s the remaining 80% (which actually goes on forever) where the biggest money lies.
Main point: [...]
Arctic Monkeys score second UK chart number one:
LONDON (Reuters) – Sheffield rockers the Arctic Monkeys have scored their second British number one with “When The Sun Goes Down” on its first week on release, the Official UK Charts Company said on Sunday.
What did I tell you?
This article describes an apparent case of GoDaddy blackmailing a customer. I’ve never used GoDaddy and never will. Can you say EVIL? read more.
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
If Heroes needed a new superhero, it would be Montage Man. He can speed things up and add a catchy tune. 21 hrs ago
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