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Entries for October, 2008

Another lesson learnt the hard way

Recently we have had a salesperson working for us who was also a self promoted SEO expert.  He previously had an SEO / SEM company that went bust due to some shoddy money management and wheeling & dealing by one of his former business partners.
At the time, we had no reason to disbelieve his story.
A [...]

Potential Leaders of The Free World

It’s time for Americans to vote in who they think should be the leader for the “free world”.  Its kinda scary to think that:

The candidates have been whittled down to just 2 choices.  so if you don’t agree with either of the candidates, you are forced to not vote or vote for the lesser of [...]

Is Blogging Obsolete?

Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug. - By Paul Boutin (http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay)
This is the first line in an article that was sent to me in a WebProNews email.  The article basically states that blogs have become passé due to over commercialization and [...]

An Honest Opinion is Remarkable … Apparently

I have been doing some outside web development for a few friends of mine recently.  Not anything major, just modifying a standard web directory software application.
Since i started doing this work for these 2 friends, i have received about 10 calls in the space of a week from friends they have told about me who [...]

Complacency is a killer

When people find a certain way of doing things that work for them, they’ll generally stick to it.
At the start of my career as a junior PHP programmer, i was lucky enough to land myself a job at a great web design company.  The job started great, but after a while of doing the same [...]

The LAYG Principle

I am an IT manager in a small business, so often i end up doing all the IT work and occasionally some of the marketing work.  We just don’t have the money to hire a lot of staff to do specialized jobs.
The advantage of this is that i am often forced to apply the LAYG [...]