Archive for August, 2006
Links for Wednesday, 08-30-06
Flickr maps photos
http://lifehacker.com/software/flickr/flickr-maps-photos-197145.php“Flickr launches easy-peasy geotagging with photo drag and drop onto a Yahoo! Map.”
Check your web site’s status on Google
http://lifehacker.com/software/seo/check-your-web-sites-status-on-google-197159.php“If you’ve just started a web site or you’re wondering where your blog’s at in the search engine department, run the URL through the Google Site Status Wizard.”
Edublogs.org
http://www.edublogs.orgFree blogs for education professionals.
An Encyclopedia of Net2 [...]
Social Media Optimization Gains Traction
On my Aug. 10 links post, I included a post by Rohit Bhargava about Social Media Optimization. In essence, Rohit argues that we should be optimizing our Web sites not just for search engines, a practice called search engine optimization or SEO, but for social media sites such as Technorati, Flickr, Del.icio.us and more.
His original [...]
I Lost a Ton, Thanks to Dave and April
For my birthday, my brother- and sister-in-law, Dave and April, did a very cool thing. They bought me a carbon offset from NativeEnergy. (BONUS: The offset came with a Ben & Jerry’s coupon. YUM!)
Being a committed environmentalist isn’t easy. It’s hard to resist saving money at Wal-Mart. Driving is faster than [...]
