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6+1 Traits of Search Engine Relevant Content

July 10, 2006 by Liz

Get Relevant

A 7-year-girl stands staring at a 27-car pile-up in which her dearest pet, a golden retriever, was thrown from the car onto hard pavement. The pup is in the road unmoving and ignored. A TV reporter — desperate for a Pulitzer — asks the child, “How do you feel now that your dog has died?”

The thoughtless question to the little girl is irrelevant to the story about the 27-car pile-up.

The reporter herself is irrelevant to the little girl. . . .

Unless the little girl caused pile up and killed puppy, her feelings (besides being obvious) just aren’t relevant.

Maybe that works on TV, but not the Internet. That reporter would have Google Page Rank Zero. Who’d do a Google search for a story on how that little girl felt? [Read more…]

ul and ol — The Secret Life of HTML Lists

July 10, 2006 by Liz

Things that Folks Don’t Tell Each Other

When I learn things, I pay attention to the things that folks don’t tell each other. They are usually obvious little details that people who know them don’t even think about. When they appear they can be a total surprise, or hard to look up, or interrupt when I’m in the middle of things.

I remember clearly the first time I wanted to make a numbered list in HTML. I didn’t have a clue how to do it. I knew it had something to do with those two tags — ul and ol, but that was as far as my knowledge went.

Now I know and if you don’t, I am going to reveal the dirty details, the secret life of making lists in HTML. [Read more…]

Net Neutrality 7-10-2006

July 10, 2006 by Liz

Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

The Origins of the Net Neutrality Debate

For all the fuss, however, net neutrality was a non-issue one year ago. In the July 7 issue of the National Journal, senior writer Drew Clark asks how the prospect of tiered Internet access suddenly became a focus of public and Congressional debate. He traces the origins of the debate to a few revealing remarks by Ed Whitacre, the CEO of the company then known as SBC (and soon to become AT&T), suggesting that the company was eager to start charging big customers more for access to the company’s Internet backbone connections.

It’s true that Whitacre’s statement raised the alarm among heavy Internet users — but Whitacre was hardly the first to think of turning the Internet into a toll road. . . .

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Looking for This Week’s Ideas?

July 9, 2006 by Liz

Look No Further

Mike Sigers at Simplenomics has done your idea work for you. He’s got a keeper of a post on his front page offering 10 Post Ideas for Business bloggers. Go on over and check it out. Click the shot to get there.

This one is a classic. Thanks, Mike!

I’m going now to print it out.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Great Find: Mama Mouse’s Blogger Help Links

July 9, 2006 by Liz

A Must Have for Google Bloggers

lf you use Google Blogger, Mama Mouse has put together a resource that is a MUST HAVE for you.

Great Find: Mama Mouse’s Blogger Problems Help Links

Permalink: http://mamamouseschatter.blogspot.com/2006/07/help-for-blogger-problems.html

Audience/Topic: All Google Blogger/Blogspot users

Content: Anyone who’s spent time on Blogger knows that customer service isn’t their strong suit. A cumbersome platform that has issues seems just what the doctor didn’t order for new bloggers who often started on Blogger because it was so easy to use. Mama Mouse began this month by listing the problems occuring lately and offering the places help awaits.

You’ll find links to

Blogger Tips & Tricks
Blogger Status (official)
The REAL Blogger Status
Most Frequent Blogger ?’s
Blogger Help – Google Group
Blogger Report Form (official)

in her post and in her side bar. To get to Mama Mouse’s post on Blogger Help, there click the logo below.

Mama, who is an SOB, also writes a great blog too. Thanks Mama!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Net Neutrality 7-9-2006

July 9, 2006 by Liz

Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Net Neutrality = A Financial Services Industry Free-Ride?

IÃ¢â¬â¢ve written a little about the Net Neutrality debate , and posted some Blog entries bout it Ã¢â¬â e.g. here, here and here. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s a complex and interesting subject, and politicians have clearly had difficulty getting their heads around it. So I was interested to see how Wikipedia would approach the topic.

The entry seemed to me to be a model of its kind Ã¢â¬â well-informed, mostly well-referenced and balanced. But its Ã¢â¬ËneutralityÃ¢â¬â¢ has been challenged and has triggered WikipediaÃ¢â¬â¢s discussion process. The discussion page on the issue is fascinating. HereÃ¢â¬â¢s the bit about the bias complaint. . . .

[What follows is the challenge process at Wikipedia.]

ItÃ¢â¬â¢s always irritating to have oneÃ¢â¬â¢s views changed by other peopleÃ¢â¬â¢s better arguments, but this discussion has caused me to re-evaluate the original entry. I think the point about Ã¢â¬ËframingÃ¢â¬â¢ is right. WouldnÃ¢â¬â¢t it be nice if all public debate about complex issues were conducted this way? Then we really would have a deliberative democracy. IÃ¢â¬â¢m always puzzled by peopleÃ¢â¬â¢s hostility to Wikipedia: to me, it looks like one of the best things to have emerged from the Net.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE