Posted by Edward on Jun 30th, 2008 in Internet Stuff with 16 Comments
Watching the Glastonbury Festival coverage on the BBC over the last few days reminded me that last year, I managed to find a nifty little tool to rip all the ‘watch again’ video they put up online for seven days after the festival finishes. I ended up with everything screened on the beeb over the [...]
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Posted by Edward on Jun 29th, 2008 in Humour with No Comments
As anyone who knows me knows, stupid stuff makes me laugh - from the early days of the Office Pest strip in Loaded magazine, I’ve been a fan of Brighton cartoonists Mick Bunnage and Jon Link. Now under the guise of ‘Modern Toss‘, their simple, offensive direct humour has spawned two TV series in the [...]
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Posted by Edward on Jun 19th, 2008 in 3things with 1 Comment
For about the last week, the server that 3things was on (as well as quite a few of my other sites) has been getting slower and slower for some unknown reason, even crapping out completely at several points. Having got fed up of losing both traffic and revenue due to timeouts, I took the decision [...]
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Posted by Edward on Jun 13th, 2008 in SEO with No Comments
Just found a post by Mark over at Digerati this morning, where he has assembled a nice little (51mb) zipped up blackhat SEO starter kit, including keyword scrapers, databased articles, site generators and all manner of other useful stuff. As usual I discovered this gem by keeping up with the news feeds over on SEO [...]
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Posted by Edward on Jun 11th, 2008 in Technology with No Comments
Just got an SMS from o2 this morning to say that the new 3G iPhone is being released in the UK on july 11 in both 8gb and 16gb versions, with unlimited wireless data usage as before.
o2/Apple seem to be being pretty fair about the whole thing, offering a free upgrade to the new 8gb [...]
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Posted by Edward on Jun 11th, 2008 in Internet Stuff with No Comments
Looks like Joost de Valk has produced a mini bible for the effective SEO of your wordpress site. He’s posted a superb and definitive article giving a pretty much step by step to have your blog ranking to its organic potential. Extremely comprehensive but easily implemented steps for users of all levels.
Pay a visit and [...]
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Posted by Edward on Jun 10th, 2008 in Internet Stuff with No Comments
Nice post from Mark over at Digerati outlining how lone SEO’s are more than a match for big corporations as far as search engine promotion goes - nicely written and informative as usual!
Also a great post from Michael Martinez over at SEO theory focussing on whether blackhat techniques qualify as ‘advanced SEO’. Once again, objective [...]
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Posted by Edward on Jun 10th, 2008 in Web Design with No Comments
I set up the SEO Streams site a while ago for my own viewing pleasure to aggregate SEO related feeds from some of my favourite blogs and never really got around to finishing the job, leaving it neglected for about the last year on a fairly awful feed parsing platform that shall remain nameless. I’ve [...]
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