This book has been one of the most interesting ones that I read during my PhD research, and I recommend it to anyone working with computers, especially in web. It’s called “The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (CSLI Lecture[...]
Archive for the ‘Inspirations’ Category
July 31st, 2009 - 12:13 pm § in Inspirations
Seo Snake Oil
Seo “Snake oil” refers to the bogus, misleading or fraudulent statements, “facts” and rumours spread in the SEO world. Traditionally “snake oil” refers to the bogus medicines sold by travelling doctors back in the day. SEO is not an exact science, so some either l[...]
July 8th, 2009 - 2:36 am § in Inspirations
Blogerversary
Well it’s been a year since I started “Science for SEO” and how time flies! The picture above is of “Malcolm T Frog” who shared my bathroom in Goa (India), and who really enjoyed jumping around when the shower was on and sticking to the wall. He was cool and I often won[...]
July 4th, 2009 - 11:53 pm § in Inspirations
Wake up and smell the patchouli
Welcome to a newly refreshed SFS blog. With this change I wanted to write a little off-topic post for you because I feel inspired to do so. It is written in memory of one of my greatest teachers and the kindest and most humble man I have ever had the privilege of meeting. Sri Krishna [...][...]
June 6th, 2009 - 11:03 am § in Inspirations
My Ruud interview
Ruud Hein is famed for giving interviews and I was pretty flattered to be asked to answer some of his questions. You can read over at Search Engine People if you like. Tweet This PostRelated Posts:Duck Duck Go!The new SEO: Visibility strategistWho do we need in search?10 papers on personalization (P[...]
June 1st, 2009 - 5:41 pm § in Inspirations, SEO & marketing
Can you get “Kuniaki Nozoe” to #1?
Greenpeace are launching a campaign to bring more awareness to the climate issues we face. Interestingly enough, it involves all you SEO’s out there. “The Cool IT Challenge ranks the CEOs of top IT companies on their climate leadership, then asks techies to bet on those most likely to im[...]
May 1st, 2009 - 2:13 pm § in Inspirations
Rant: Which are you really?
There is a lot of vocab misuse around the web, and especially in webdesign, online marketing and other areas. This does not usually disturb me in any way and I couldn’t care less, but recently it has caused me hassle, so I am having a big rant about it. Some may take it personally, but [...][...]
