Alister Cameron // Blogologist

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July 2007 // Archive

The good old days of search

19 July 2007 – 12:26 pm

Remember the good old days, when the Search Engine Relationships chart was really interesting?!?!
Technorati Tags: search engines, google, yahoo, alltheweb, live search, lycos, hotbot, aol search, netscape, bruce clay

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Sparky - the official Alexa toolbar for Firefox

18 July 2007 – 4:05 pm

Sparky was announced yesterday. I installed it and I’m happy and well… yay. Been a long wait.
Technorati Tags: alexa, sparky, firefox, extensions, add-ons, toolbar

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Jeff Pulver dumps LinkedIn for Facebook

18 July 2007 – 3:56 pm

Jeff Pulver (the VoIP guy) has had enough of LinkedIn and is switching all his social networking efforts to Facebook. I’ve never thought much of LinkedIn (sorry, Des!) and I’m more and more impressed with Facebook, so it’s got me thinking…
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An easier way to dialogue with your blog commenters

18 July 2007 – 2:23 pm

I admit it. I suck at dialoguing with my commenters properly. It’s been an interface issue, mostly. But that seems to have been solved. I noticed Liz talking about a Wordpress plugin called Better Comments Manager, and I’ve installed it… and it’s working a treat. So expect more dialogue from me in the comments. (This [...]

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Is it possible to keep your focus but still ‘mix it up’ on your blog?

18 July 2007 – 12:00 am

A few days ago I implemented asides on my blog. These are sometimes called “tumblelog” posts and give me a way to write short pithy posts about this or that. For me it was really important to give these posts a different look on my blog (at least on index pages), so that you the [...]

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I’m in with Sphinn!

17 July 2007 – 11:51 am

Sphinn is live and humming and attracting all the right people from the SEO/SEM/SMO/SMM worlds. I signed up today, but already had a story of mine with almost the most “sphinns”! And don’t forget to add Sphinn to your Share This Wordpress plugin. It’s easy.
Technorati Tags: digg, sphinn, danny sullivan, seo, [...]

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Linking to Wikipedia is lazy and a disservice to someone else who really deserves the link!

13 July 2007 – 11:40 am

Imagine you’re Google for a moment (I accept that’s not an easy challenge!). Your job is to do the “right” job and fairly and wisely and correctly rank web pages from all across the internet on any given search term. What a job!
So you refine, refine, refine and refine some more a funky-as “algorithm” that [...]

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I got flamed for my birthday!

12 July 2007 – 4:56 pm

Micah is a 16 year old who think I really really suck. I’m also a snob and an idiot. I’m 38 today… sheesh, I could be his dad!!

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Marc Andreessen discovers StumbleUpon.

11 July 2007 – 3:37 pm

One of my heros, Marc Andreessen (pretty much the inventor of the web browser) has been blogging for about 5 weeks now. And one of his 11 key blogging discoveries? The extraordinary traffic coming from StumbleUpon. Welcome to the party, Marc!
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A great read on Social Networking and Christian Ministry

10 July 2007 – 2:06 pm

Stephen Shields recently wrote a great article on the uptake of online social networking as a community-building and outreach strategy for the local church. It’s a great read.
Technorati Tags: church, leadnet, faith, christianity, facebook, myspace, social networks, social networking, ministry, christian ministry, christian missions, [...]

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