Required Reading for Web Professionals – February
Google changes it’s search algorithm more than 200 times a year. Your blog changes its content every day. You must stay on top of the game. Do so by reading these:
4 Terrific Tools for Creating Business Web Forms
via Mashable! by Matt Silverman on 2/17/10
Killer Google AdWords Guide for Affiliates
via SEO Book.com – Learn. Rank. Dominate. by Aaron Wall on 2/16/10
Comparing SEO Business Models
via SEO Book.com – Learn. Rank. Dominate. by Aaron Wall on 2/16/10
3 Simple Tips for Effortless Writing
via Write to Done by Mary Jaksch on 1/21/10
Build Ecosystems for Your Content
via chrisbrogan.com by chrisbrogan on 2/11/10
A Step by Step 15 Minute SEO Audit (A Sample from SEO Secrets)
via SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog by Danny Dover on 2/10/10
Poll: 60% of Google AdSense Publishers Say Earnings Down
via Search Engine Roundtable by barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) on 2/17/10
Maximizing ROI: The Wrong Game
via Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing by George Michie on 2/15/10
Is Cursive Handwriting Dead? Yes, But Productivity and Scribble are Thriving
Lifehacker asks if Cursive Handwriting is Dead? Yes. But thanks to the reasons why, it’s not a sad death, but one of celebration.
You see, I was taught that cursive was important because it would help me take notes in class when I got to college, or to write things down quickly – like in my journal, or when I’m out and about. But that thinking is from an older, paper paradigm. I can just as easily use a voice recorder and software to transcribe a full lecture into text. Or more realistically, just type my notes – and far more cleanly (and searchable) than ever could be done on paper. Cursive 0. Technology 1.
But scribble is up, for when I do write quickly it’s definitely not cursive anymore! (:
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- Mourning the Death of Handwriting (time.com)
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The Digital Divide, Access to Technology and Internet Literacy – Howard Rheingold
A must watch video monologue from Howard Rheingold, one of the elder leaders of futurism (a.ka. the discipline of predicting the future better than everyone else). Interesting and insightful commentary on Internet Literacy:
21st century media literacies from JD Lasica on Vimeo.
“Increasingly I think the digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don’t know how,” says author Howard Rheingold, speaking in front of King’s College at Cambridge University. “The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift” and discern.
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The Digital Divide, Access to Technology and Internet Literacy – Howard Rheingold
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Is Reality Less Interesting Than the Story About It?
Renny Gleeson’s speech on “antisocial phone tricks” at the recent TED conference in Long Beach got me thinking. How much is the asynchronous power of communication brought about by today’s technology influencing how we live our lives together? Great video. Enjoy:
- Susan Smalley: TED: Are You In Or Are You Out? (huffingtonpost.com)
- Olafur Eliasson: Art and our Sense of Space (ethanzuckerman.com)
- BIL conference – a TED alternative. (brainhealthhacks.com)
- The Evolution of TED (ventureblog.com)
