Co-Founder, Editor and Code Monkey at Scrw Media.

Blog Cleaning

While I had removed a lot of the unnecessary stuff that was making it’s way to the from page of this blog and kept it so you were only seeing actual posts, (as opposed to webcasts for other sites and aggregated Twitter content) Sara pointed out to me that all of that stuff was still finding it’s [...]

Favicons Are So Easy To Create. Where's Yours? (How To)

Favicons are those cool little graphics that site in the address bar and tab of your browser. I’m amazed by how many sites either don’t have one, or are using which ever one shipped with their CMS. Favicons are a wonderful tool for branding as they provide a visual identifier to help your site stand [...]

Podcast: Splogging or Blog Pirating (Part 2)

Happy Hour with Mr. Business Golf – Splogging or Blog Pirating 2 As a follow up to our podcasts about the internet and the problems with social networks (Part 1, 2, 3, 4) Scot Duke and I recorded a segment about splogs, how they affect bloggers and how to deal with them. This 14 minute [...]

Podcast: Splogging or Blog Pirating (Part 1)

Happy Hour with Mr. Business Golf – Splogging or Blog Pirating 1 As a follow up to our podcasts about the internet and the problems with social networks (Part 1, 2, 3, 4) Scot Duke and I recorded a segment about splogs, how they affect bloggers and how to deal with them. This 15 minute [...]

Full or partial? Sara feeds the debate…

A little over a year ago I posted about how I felt that partial feeds are like foreplay without sex. Damn frustrating! Sara from Suburban Oblivion has reopened that can of worms again and is getting some great feedback in her comments with the vast majority of folks preferring full feeds. I’ve gone back and [...]

More posts = more attention?

Common sense would seem to tell me that the more I post the more readers I will have and the more I’ll be able to attract. This may be true from a search engine perspective as the more material you have the more likely it is that somebody will click on something but what about [...]

Duplicate post detection in Google Reader

I’ve been thinking about RSS readers and specifically Google Reader (my reader of choice) since watching the video below after seeing it on Hackzine. For me, the most interesting part of the video is not the process that Robert Scoble goes through to read 622 feeds but his comments about the need for Google Reader [...]

Deathmatch Kirkpatrick VS Cochrane

Inflammatory title I know, but there appears to be no love lost between Marshall Kirkpatrick of SplashCast and Todd “The Geek” Cochrane of Geek News Central. This started heating up between these two after Todd started hammering SplashCast for hijacking RSS feeds. Things became a little more bitchy yesterday after Todd wrote a post complaining [...]

Unreadable feed = no readers!

SEO Blog might be a good blog! I don’t know! I must have thought it was a good blog at one point in time because I subscribed to their RSS feed. Unfortunately that was probably the last time I read anything they posted because I can’t read their RSS feed! It’s not that SEO Blog [...]