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Search Engine Land Editorial Quality Dropping
In the last week or so there have been a number of publishing errors on Search Engine Land, which I consider to be major mistakes that should have been caught by the authors, writers, editors and good quality work flow. … Continue reading
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Wikirank, Visualising Wikipedia Usage Data
I came across a clever web site named Wikirank, which provides visualisation tools to explore and compare the usage data from wikipedia.org. If you’re wondering how Wikirank could manage that, wikipedia.org provide access to their web server traffic logs … Continue reading
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CommBank Keeping Warm By Burning Money
While viewing http://www.news.com.au yesterday, I noticed an advertisement on the home page for Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The ad was for instant approvals and same day funds (working now), however clicking the ad presented me with a “Page Not Found” … Continue reading
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Web Usability 101, Useful & Descriptive Link Text
I’m an advocate for sensible usability on web sites and fully support the usability guidelines that recommend descriptive link text. There are measurable improvements to a users browsing experience when a webmaster makes a conscious decision to use useful link … Continue reading
Jim “Mr Shy” Mirkalami
In February, I wrote about receiving comment spam from a guy by the name of Jim Mirkalami. Since that time, there has been a lot of different people writing about the spam that they’ve received from our friend Jim; however … Continue reading
Jim Mirkalami, The Lurking Spammer
Today I received a curious comment into #if debug: Name: Jim Mirkalami Email: jim@homenetmail.com IP: 74.14.19.186 Comment: I have been visiting this site a lot lately, so i thought it is a good idea to show my appreciation with a … Continue reading
Ruby On Rails & Mongrel Generally Slow
Rich Skrenta wrote an article recently about ranking web 2.0 sites by server performance, in which he talks about server response time and latency and how it impacts a site. To see how everything stacked up, Rich decided that he’d … Continue reading
Cool URIs Don’t Change Apparently
The organisation behind a number of the standards that web development relies on in the present were forged through the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C. Over the years they’ve published countless documents on their web site outlining in great … Continue reading →