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The SEO Experiment

What difference does Search Engine Optimization really make? Is it worth spending the time and money on SEO? From experience it is obvious that SEO is an effective activity however I thought it’d be fun to compare two identical websites; one with a bit of SEO performed and one with very little SEO. I have [...]

Most Popular Social Networking Sites

Nielsen this week released comparisons showing the enormous growth in the amount of time spent on the most visited Social Media sites from April 2008 to April 2009. The numbers are truly astounding. The Social Media / Social Bookmarking / Sharing industry is still in its infancy. We’ll definitely be seeing consolidation and / or [...]

Digital Swine Influenza – Distributed via the Internet

Swine influenza is the first pandemic since the widespread sharing of information via the Internet. The last pandemic was the 1969 Hong Kong pandemic at which time the Internet did not exist. The amount of information relating to swine flu which is available on the Internet is huge (but unfortunately not all entirely accurate). WordPress, [...]

Blog Dugg to Death

A blog, fushnchups.co.nz, has received the equivalent of the digg Effect. Various newspaper and online articles have named the controversial content of the blog in the past few days. This has led to fushnchups.co.nz being unavailable (at the time of this articles writing). The ‘digg Effect’ is a reference to articles in digg becoming so [...]