Monday, June 30, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Pick of the Thicket 6.17.08
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- Same-sex weddings: Good for the wedding photography business? (Black Star Rising)
- ESPN columnist compares Celtics to Hitler (Romenesko)
- So, this client walks into a conference... (Flack's Revenge)
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Pick of the Thicket 6.13.08
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- Tiger Woods meets M.C. Escher (Photoshop Disasters)
- Hide the wife and kids; Dick Cheney wants to drill the whole planet (DeSmog Blog)
- Gore Vidal and the art of the political insult (Gawker)
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Pick of the Thicket 6.12.08
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- Business media letting Gap CEO off the hook (Talking Biz News)
- San Antonio Express-News says music columnist used a ghostwriter (Romenesko)
- The King is I (Flack's Revenge)
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Pick of the Thicket 6.11.08
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- Planet Green? Why not call it the Pomposity Channel (Deceiver)
- Fox News pretends crackpot Hillary fan who's now voting for McCain represents a movement (News Hounds)
- PowerPoint patch hits market a day early (Client Service Insights)
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Pick of the Thicket 6.10.08
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- Spike Lee: uppity? (Regret the Error)
- Revenge top 10 (Flack's Revenge)
- Social media beefs up resumes (The Buzz Bin)
- Courtney Friel: hottest newsbabe? (Bikini Beat)
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
Want to Know Which Sites Have the Most Google Juice? Click Here
So I've been thinking a lot about anchor text lately (sorry, did I admit that?), and it occurred to me that the word that is probably used as anchor text more than any other is "here." As in, click here.
Being the creature of logic that I am, I quickly came to the brilliant conclusion that the way to find out what domains have real Google juice is to run a search for the word "here" and see what domains come out on top.
Here were the top 20 results:
1. www.adobe.com
2. www.microsoft.com
3. www.apple.com
4. www.mapquest.com
5. www.real.com
6. www.java.com
7. earth.google.com
8. www.winzip.com
9. www.flickr.com
10. www.cnn.com
11. www.mozilla.com
12. en.wikipedia.org
13. www.house.gov
14. www.paypal.com
15. www.divx.com
16. www.winamp.com
17. disney.go.com
18. www.travel.state.gov
19. support.ccbill.com
20. windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Lots of tech sites, Web tools and -- surprise -- some mapping and travel-related sites, too.
Yes, this is what I do in my spare time. Buh-bye.
Pick of the Thicket 6.5.08
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- Uncle Leo's all-time favorite story (Client Service Insights)
- China approves official Olympic chant (Collateral Damage)
- Neil Cavuto worried that people are mistaking Obama for Jesus Christ (News Hounds)
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Yours Truly on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet
eDrugSearch.com has been a longtime client, and I was asked to represent the company on a panel on the nationally syndicated Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on Monday.
I came with three talking points and was able to spit out about two-thirds of the first one, but hey -- better to be overprepared than underprepared, right?
In other news, I'm really sorry I've let the Orchard go again. I'm bringing in the yard crew and we're going to get the place gussied up again soon -- I promise.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Pick of the Thicket 5.27.08
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- Twitter outages suck (The Buzz Bin)
- "Oops -- I'm sorry I called for Obama's assassination" (Fox Attacks)
- How I Spent My Stimulus
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