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Archive for November, 2009

Lists bring sanity back in twitter use – Part I

Posted in Social media, tagged , , on November 24, 2009 | Comments Off

I have been a big opponent of the vanity twitter use (aka harvesting followers, hoping that “followers” equals “audience”). In practice, this meant that from a point on,  I completely stopped looking who is following me, did not reciprocate at the cost of being perceived as arrogant and kept my follower/following ratio to 4. Still not [...]

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The partial feed sacrilege and the ad benefit

Posted in Social media, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2009 | Comments Off

  I remember a time (not so long ago) when people were disgusted by partial feeds and most of the major blogs and bloggers abided by this unwritten law. Publishing a partial feed was synonymous to cheap exploitation, putting ad revenues over readership, alienating your readers etc. I, myself, am guilty of accusing blogs for [...]

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Is Social Search a threat to SEO?

Posted in Business, Social media, Technology, tagged , , , , , on November 5, 2009 | 13 Comments »

I think it is, and I tweeted so  yesterday.  And the reason is obvious. What is SEO about? Ultimately, it is about one thing: the ‘website’. It’s about making a website and its pages discoverable, ranked favorably in search results, described appropriately so that searchers hook on the description etc. But ‘websites’ are not ‘in’. Check [...]

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