It’s not like you’ve got anything else better to do…
Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use? -- Search Engine Land -- I thought everyone just picked what they thought looked/sounded the coolest.
URL Shorteners Are Bad for Most of Us -- Joshua Schachter’s Blog -- Are they? What do you think? The only thing that bothers me is when they don’t work.
DIY Social Media Monitoring Dashboards -- Michael Leis -- Why just plugin when you can plugin & monitor? It’s the logical next step…
The Top 5 Video Game Ninjas -- Unreality -- Ninja-related material is always must-read.
Twitter Traffic Explodes…And Not Being Driven By the Usual Suspects -- comScore Voices -- Even though the 18 -- 24 year old demographic has a low adoption rate compared to the rest of the olders demos, I see lots of growth coming in the next year. I base this solely on the fact that my cousin, who’s a senior in college, is now tweeting.
Quarterly Online Sales Flash Survey, Q1 2009 Results -- Shop.org -- More than half of the retailers surveyed reported an increase in sales during Q1.
Pre-roll Ad Viewing Up, Interaction Down -- ReelSEO -- Not surprising that people looking for content they’d normally have to pay for are more willing to tolerate watch pre-roll.
Amazon Cuts Paid Search Affiliates -- Amazon Affiliate Blog -- I wonder if this has anything to do with the pending tax nexus changes. Search Engine Marketing firms who dislike affiliates will tell you that other merchants should do the same. What’s your opinion?
And when in doubt, think with your dipstick…or don’t. I think I’ve found my Halloween costume. I’m Scottish, I could pull it off. Check out this behind the scenes video; it might be funnier than the commercial.
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Google’s new keyword research tool -- 2 things immediately come to mind; great competitive research for my clients’ paid search campaigns & good info to help maximize current campaigns
That is, unless you think posting links is, in effect, me bailing out on providing you fresh content. These people have far more interesting things to say than I have in me at this moment. Enjoy…
Occam’s Razor: Conversion/ROI Attribution. Great explanation along with video of the basics of cookies & tracking/recording data. Like anyone will tell you though, there’s no one perfect answer.
Logic+Emotion: 10 Reasons to Stop Calling Yourself a Blogger. I’ve NEVER liked the term; hardly ever refer to this site as one of those (see, I didn’t do it there either).
PRStore: Great tips on how to best set up your copywriter for success
As you enjoy your morning coffee or tea (if you enjoy neither, now is a good time to start…caffeine is your friend), here are some good posts to stimulate your right brain before the week gets going & your left brain takes over.
The Viral Garden -- Why is Plurk a big deal? -- Having a threaded conversation for text messages on my Treo is something of which I’ve always been a big fan. It probably has a lot to do with why I, sometimes, would rather exchange a few texts instead of having an actual phone conversation.
PRstore -- B2B, B2C, B2Whatever -- Who says all business decisions are made rationally?
Techno//Marketer -- The influence of digital -- Be prepared for a lot of good information & analysis from the Digital Influence Index Study conducted by Fleishman-Hillard & Harris Interactive.
Mooney Thinks -- Explore the Tag Galaxy -- Loads of fun & potential mega time waster. I suggest using the keywords beach & sunset to start.
And I leave you with this moving video…
If you still have some time to kill; vote for Chase Utley & Jimmy Rollins to start in this year’s All Star Game. I would love to throw Ryan Howard’s name in there, but dude strikes out too much. That average needs to be closer to .250 than .200.
Or Sunday afternoon…whatever. The main point is that I have no point right now & you should just check out what’s below. I’m going outside. And by going outside I mean doing five loads of laundry & cleaning my apartment before heading to San Diego for four days.
Mike Schmidt (my favorite baseball player, EVER) has his own wine. Can someone tell charitywines.com that spell check is a great tool & that scrolling left to right is so Web 1.0?
Cubans are going to love home computing &, maybe someday, the intertubes.
Coldplay joins the likes of Nine Inch Nails & Radiohead, embracing the digital space. Note to the music industry: it will all make sense later; stop staring from the sidelines & do something! My friends & I are always going to find ways to get free music. If you get creative you might be able to trick us into paying for it sometimes!
Speaking of…NIN just stepped it up a notch. I have a small list (mostly because I never write it down & then end up forgetting) of people’s brains I’d like to pick. Trent Reznor is one of them.
This sucks. So much for creating & posting interesting mixes. Today was going to be Breakfast with the Beatles.
I was at game 4 of the Flyers/Canadiens series. IMO, the NHL Playoffs is the second best post season tournament going. March Madness gets my vote as the best. Why should you care about this? Because the NHL regular season is not that interesting. Long-boring-lacking-personality morphs into electric-atmosphere-fueling-arena-rattling-celebration. Even more so in a great hockey town, like Philly. It’s the same, yet compelling, story told over & over again; hot goalie standing on his head & keeping his outshot team in games, adroit playmaker setting his team up for chances, the Detroit Red Wings choking, & an unlikely hero scoring timely goals. The NHL will never be as big as the NFL, NBA, or MLB, but few sports bring out the raw fan in you like hockey. They need to harness this; I’d start by hiring whoever is in charge of marketing the Flyers.
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