February 2009
12 posts
Search Queries Are Getting Longer [US + AU]
Matt McGee over at Search Engine Land linked to a Hitwise report showing “1- and 2-word queries are becoming less common, while 4-, 5-, and all the way up to 8+ word queries are becoming more common.”
US Hitwise Data:
In Australia, Hitwise data correlates with the US report - Aussies are also using more keywords per query year-on-year:
How to Present While People are Twittering |... →
The next time you present at a conference, instead of being confronted by a sea of faces looking at you, you may be phased by a sea of heads looking down at their laptops. Now when you say something…
Make Better Presentations - The Anatomy of a Good... →
The first and most important thing to talk about first is explaining what’s in it for me, the listener, the audience. “What’s in it for me?” Answer that early. You might start by saying, “You’ve got…
How Mike Allen learned to stop worrying and love... →
“I told Howie what I believe: people like me have to reach people where THEY are instead of asking them to come to me.”
The Science of ReTweets →
- Calls to action (as in: “please ReTweet”), while they might sound cheesy, work very well to get ReTweets.
- Timely content gets ReTweeted a lot.
- Freebies are popular.
- Self-reference (Tweeting…
Bikinis Make Men See Women as Objects, Scans... →
No, really.
“Brain scans revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily clad women, the region of the brain associated with tool use lights up.”
“And in a “shocking” finding, Fiske noted, some…
Digital Archivists, Now in Demand - NYTimes.com →
Think of all the accumulated documentation of the past two millennium - from papyrus to stone etchings, paintings to monoliths. With the advent of the digital age, someone has to archive them - hence…
Oxymorons (or Oxymora) > Types of oxymoron →
Four Not Useful Web Analytics KPI Measurement... →
Avinash recommends useful KPIs and explains why four popular KPIs are not entirely useful. ‘Averages have an astonishing capacity to give your “average” data, they have a great capacity to lie, and…
Farmer stands ready to defend own home against...
Excerpt from the latest news update on the terrible Victoria bushfires:
Meanwhile, the residents of Highlands, a small community about 10km north of Yea, have been told they are on their own if the Victorian bushfires swing their way.
A local business owner said residents were told at a meeting on Wednesday that the seven tankers that would protect their properties had broken down and were in...
Four Aussie sites in 500 most linked-to domains on...
SEOmoz released their top 500 most linked to domains here: http://www.seomoz.org/top500
Among the top 500 (download the CSV) are four Aussie news sites:
#181 - news.com.au
#216 - abc.net.au
#229 - smh.com.au
#376 - theage.com.au
Which is not surprising considering 1) the amount of international and local attention these news sites receive from the blogosphere & social media and 2)...