Top 25 commonly believed SEO myths
This is a good list, and I’m glad to say I was aware of and/or agree with almost all these points.
This is a good list, and I’m glad to say I was aware of and/or agree with almost all these points.
This article is a pretty good breakdown of the different ways these two tools are useful.
I’m just getting a handle on non-animated stick-like cartoon art (for my webcomic The Little Things), but that doesn’t keep me from being enticed by the idea of making animated cartoons too…
13 Fast And Furious Stick Figure Animations And Tutorials @SmashingApps.
This is a really great feature, which not only suggests 50 different angles you can pursue with your blog content, but links to a great example for each type of blog, so you can go see how it’s done.
A must-read for blogging novices, IMO. (And all my clients. Yes you!)
Free Alternatives to Photoshop With All the Bells, Whistles, Filters, & Layers.
Covers a lot of cool-looking options, but seems to land at the obvious destination: The GIMP.
Twitter’s real-time search index is not tracking everyone’s updates, and their people search is not showing everyone either. This has been reported at Twitter support, but they have not posted any news or fixed the problem for over a month.
How to check
To see if you are impacted by this, go to Twitter Search and search for: “from:yourusername”
without quotes, and with your Twitter username instead of “yourusername”
Lots of other people are having the same or very similar problems, as you can see in this support thread at Twitter (which has been open since June 4) about the tweets missing from the public timeline/search, and this one (open since May 29) about the people missing from People Search.
It’s pretty easy on the surface to see why this isn’t good, but it might not be quite as obvious why it’s a big enough deal to bother doing something about. There are a lot of ramifications for the Twitterverse that spring from this problem.
People who are not included in Twitter’s search index:
The bottom line is that until the search index is fixed, a large population of twitterers being arbitrarily excluded from a lot of the functions that make twitter so cool and useful. Not only are they at a disadvantage in trying to grow their network and spread their message, they are unable to do everything they could be doing for and with the Twitterverse–which does a disservice to everyone on Twitter, and to the natural organic growth that should be occurring in the community there.
The worst part about this is that these “hidden” folks have a much harder time even getting this issue out there, since they can’t hold a hashtag-based awareness campaign, and in many cases can’t be heard by the “influentials” on Twitter in order to get the word out. And Twitter seems to be pretty silent on this issue.
So it’s up to everyone to realize that this problem affects all of us on Twitter, and to demand that they make addressing this problem a top priority.
NOTE: Yes, I know Twitter is free, but let’s not kid ourselves: the people who created and run Twitter are going to make a great deal of money, and it is the “twittizenry” that has brought about the growth and momentum to make that the case. We are the value in Twitter; and I’m pretty sure the people who run it know that.
We just need to let them know what’s important to us. In this case, ending the second-class status that has been applied for whatever reason to some unknown population of Twitter users. Or to put it less dramatically:
Dear @Twitter: Please solve your search index problem. (Plz RT)
Ideally, they will respond quickly and let us know what’s up, and we won’t have to apply much pressure. They may even have a solution in the works, and all that we need to do is get some loud enough voices to ask them what’s going on.
That’s where you come in.
If you have any other ideas or know of a better way to get the search fix moving along, and/or get Twitter to be more forthcoming about it, please post them in the comments below. (But if you know of someone missing from search, make sure you post about it at Twitter’s support ticket (here and/or here first.)
This is an excellent interview with the owner of an electronics hardware supplier who has gotten has employees to blog as a central part of his social media and marketing strategy. The lessons he has learned could serve almost any business that is unsure about taking “the plunge”.
Rick Short Explains How to Turn Staff Into Prolific Bloggers.
Lifehacker – Top 10 Productivity Basics Explained
Saving this so I can check it out some time when I’m being more productive.
Sometimes the Internet is a beautiful thing. Most of the time, actually.
To wit: 25 Places to Find Free Stock Photos from my new friends at Tutorial Blog. (Because providing me with 25 different free photo sites is a pretty good way to become my friend.)