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Link Shortener Hacked, Leads to Porn Sites

POPrl, a popular url shortening service, has been hacked. This has rendered all links run through it to porn and other unintended sites.  Early morning yesterday, Twitterfeed, a popular RSS to Twitter service, tweeted that they were temporarily suspending Poprl from...

Travel Blogging Inspiration

Image of Peter Shankman (note: this post was written at 30,000 feet on the way in to Austin, Texas) While most of my inspirational posts are original, it is worth noting when other hit gold.  Peter Shankman, of HARO fame, recently posted an excellent list of tips when...

Thanks to Burger King, My Keyword Buckets are Juicy

Like so many, my wife and I have been trying to watch what we eat.  During a very busy day recently, I went to a Burger King because it was one of the closest options and was relatively cheap.  However, thanks to a relatively new law in the state of Washington,...

My 2 Minute Blog Post Beat Up Your Tweet

Image via CrunchBase Twitter, while excellent, short circuits the full potential of the thoughts that we seed into it. I’m putting a clock to the amount of time that it takes to write this blog post from start to finish, and will have it take no longer than 2...

The Importance of Conversion Tracking

Image by mechanikat via Flickr It’s 10:00 pm.  Do you know where your conversions are? I talk to a lot of people about their search campaigns in a lot of different areas.  Unless they’re really into this new concept (new to them, mind you) called...

10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media

Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. They’ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment. And they’ll take for granted that a black man is or was President of the United States.

Meeting JStam and We Have a Winner

Image via CrunchBase Welcome to the final installment of the 10in10 experiment! Week 10 I had a chance to catch up with John Stammerman aka JStam, currently a web administrator for Indiana University.  Right away I could tell that John really gets the web, both...

7 Social Media Motivators

At one point or another you’ve probably come across motivational posters.  Whether in a corporate boardroom or an email chain forward, some are meant to be meaningful and heartfelt, while others are downright funny.  Here’s our collection of the 7 best...