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SEO/SMO Hate

As a blogger I hate SEO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization], they ruin the web. When I search for something I don't want some stupid sales link at the top of my serp (search engine results page) I want what I searched for! Its becoming

GoDaddy And K.Rose

So I was talking to Kevin Rose (of digg, techtv, twit fame) last night, just seeing what each other have been up to for the past little bit... which was nice, being an internet bigwig has not changed him a bit. But then something haappened today, I saw the new

Taking A New Road

As per that theme song the other day, I'm going to take a new road and if all goes well, never look back! Yesterday I quit my day job to join up with a new startup company that oddly enough isn't podcast related. I'm

The Cult Of Rails

I'm starting to think that Ruby on Rails is a cult and quickly becoming a religion. It even has its own list of commandments like "Thou shall not write code until I have a test for it" and "Thou shall not repeat thyself" It

Portable Media Expo

I'm now at the Portable Media Expo! If your around, you can find me at the PopCurrent or Podiobooks booth or I will have my cell phone 905-399-EVIL(3845) I have 2 talks that I'm giving. Friday at the Podango Unconference at 3:30 entitled "

Talking With Scoble

I've "talked" over email a few times with Robert Scoble [http://scobleizer.wordpress.com] -- the man, the myth, the legend -- but never using more than a keyboard, but that was until tonight Robert and I had a 30 minute conversation about a new site

Paying for Submissions

My 2 cents on Jason's [http://www.calacanis.com/2006/08/02/qanda-about-paying-users-for-doing-work/] hiring Digg [http://digg.com] submitters to work for Netscape [http://netscape.com]: Social news is about voting on submissions and taking good submissions and making them more visible, if Jason hired people to vote

Dave Wants And Gets Our Support

A few days ago I posted how Dave was looking to see if there was any support for resurrecting the OPML podcasting directory and I weighed in with my full support. Well, it looks like I'm not alone and with all of us saying "Hell yes!"

Dave Wants The Podcast Directory To Live Again

Dave Winer wants the Podcast Directory to live again, and I could not agree more. On his blog he posted this [http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/19.html#When:3:41:44AM]: > If there's sufficient interest, I'll happily host the root of a community

River Of News Debate

Transistr (formally known as iPodderX) has a review of news view of the data, but I never got use to reading news in that way. I tried but I just didn't feel right. Most days I like to go right to a few sources that I like to