From the monthly archives:

April 2010

What’s Wrong (1)?

April 28, 2010

Don’t you love the web? Don’t you love sitting by a warm fire, getting hammered on cheap merlot with the web? Wouldn’t you like to have babies with it? Except when it doesn’t speak to your innermost desires. Which happens all too often. Sometimes, I want to divorce the web. I’m going to start a [...]

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Corporate Culture

April 16, 2010

There’s a lot of wailing and gnashing of incisors about corporate culture, mostly by people in corporations. I worked at Microsoft for nearly fifteen of the best years of my life, and I’m hear to tell you, some of the gnashing was well worth the dental work. I’m not even sure what that meant but [...]

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E-mail in One Inbox

April 10, 2010

When’s the last time you awoke with a start in the middle of the night with the realization that you haven’t checked your Hotmail account in months? Just think of all of those spams from Classmates.com sitting there unread. A worse outcome is forgetting that you used your Hotmail or Gmail or Yahoo mail account [...]

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Writing for Humans

April 6, 2010

It’s important to remember that search engine optimization, while very important, is designed to generate traffic. Traffic does not buy your product or service … humans do. They’ll only do that when the copy that they read on the Web page converts them from traffic into customer. Not just any copy will do that (he [...]

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