Monthly Archives: February 2005

…Just make a wild rumor about what Google is going to do next. Interesting how powerful the blogoshere is if you say something people want to listen to. But did I offend my core audience? My Bloglines subscribers dropped by … Continue reading →

This email was just strange, so I thought I would share it. Apparently he thinks that he can sell a web directory service because when you search for a certain term plus ‘TDE’, his site comes up tops. Here it … Continue reading →

I’ve seen serious traffic on my church’s website this month from Googlebots. Last year I added a Calendar to the site using the ical standard, and now the Googlebots are pinging the heck out of the php pages rendering the … Continue reading →

I’ve signed on for trials of two industrial directory services this week, Kelly Search and Direct Industry. Here is a little bit about each: Kelly Search is the English equivalent of Thomas Register/Net, but they are pushing for global coverage … Continue reading →

Maybe I’ve missed this at the bottom of my email newsletters from Test & Measurement World: Through our new RSS feed, Test & Measurement World will deliver headlines to your desktop as soon as we post stories on our Web … Continue reading →

Got an email with a problem, got an email with a solution. Problem: Go Daddy, the Super Bowl also-ran, sends me a Valentine E-card. A foofy one with roses and script writing. My own wife didn’t even send me an … Continue reading →

Like most people, I’ve found using RSS feeds to keep track of blogs and newsy sites. But how about the weather? I’ve found it really handy. You can’t get it from weather.com…but you can from the alternative Weather Underground (wunderground.com). … Continue reading →

One of the biggest hassles with going to a trade show is getting rooms booked. The show wants you to book rooms through them…but why? In a pre-internet world, this may have made sense, but today I doubt it. I … Continue reading →

We’ve got four trade shows coming up in the next two months, which is nearly all our shows for the year. These are big shows at big venues like Cobo Hall and Anaheim Convention Center. We’ve got 10′ and 20′ … Continue reading →

Here are the stats for January at my company’s website (using FastStats): Internet Explorer 6: 81% Internet Explorer 5: 8% Firefox: 7.7% If you haven’t checked your site in Firefox yet…you better. The borders of the tables in mine look … Continue reading →