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Thompson Leading in Web Traffic

Hitwise reports that Fred Thompson’s campaign www.fred08.com continues to lead other candidates in web traffic ( 34.73% market share) with web darlings Barack Obama ( 13.49%) and Ron Paul ( 12.88%) coming in second and third for the week ending September 8, 2007. It will be interesting to see […]

Goats Sacrificed To Fix Nepal Jet

I know what I’m thinking about this story, but somewhere someone is shocked that there are airlines that DON’T sacrifice goats to fix a plane.

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Rise of the Geek Marketer

Steve Rubel has hit the nail on the head with what my proud role is. I am a Geek Marketer.
These cross-trained specialists are fluent in both worlds and bridge them. They are marketers by trade, yet they also have a hard-core interest in technology and social anthropology. As curious individuals, they are constantly studying […]

The iPod Vending Machine

Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 5/30/07.

I saw an iPod vending machine in the flesh for the first time at the Minneapolis airport. Interestingly, I also saw vending machines there for high-end moisturizers and other products, but of course the iPod machine gets all the press.
You’d think […]

Are Blogs As Big As We All Think They Are?

Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 5/29/07.
I was in a meeting a few days ago pitching the addition of a blog to a client’s site. I was talking about the blog’s structure, design, features, etc, but the suggestions and questions that I was getting were just a […]

Study: Cell Phone Interference With Medical Devices Lower Than Thought

The BBC is reporting on a study out if the Netherlands that the interference of cell phones on medical devices was lower than originally feared. The study found that while 2G cell phones did affect devices, including intensive care ventilators, dialysis machines, external pacemaker machines, feeding pumps and air humidifiers, it also found that […]

Obama Has Most Visited Candidate Website in July

Nielsen/NetRatings is reporting that Barack Obama’s website attracted the most unique visitors in the month of July compared to any of the other presidential candidates at 717,000. Hillary Clinton’s site led with the longest time per visitor with 8:17. The top republican candidates in those two categories were Fred Thompson, who was undeclared […]

Search Engines and White Pages

I got the following email this afternoon. Names and facts are eliminated to protect the folks who I am using to make a point.
Thomas,
We were just googling [keyword].
Our old site is coming up as the first few listings.
Can you please ask Google to immediately get the old site off - and add the new […]

We Know An Ad When We See One

My friend Donna regularly point out on the sites and elearning courses that we produce that right hand portlets can look like ads, which can then be ignored by visitors. I love to prove her brilliance and if I can do that by citing Jakob Nielsen that’s even more fun. His article on […]

The Message and the Medium

A couple of weeks ago in at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco I ran across a nifty little feature while looking at their exhibit Lens on Life: From Bamako to San Francisco. At the exhibit you can hear the curators comments on the photographs by calling in on your cell […]