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Potential mates are Googling you

January 9th, 2008 – 22:45

Discussion on this morning’s Mikey Show on Rock 105.3 turned to an email a listener sent in.  Said listener had a first date with a nice girl… and so he asked her out on a second date.  She casually mentioned that she googled his name inbetween dates, and he’s “safe,” and she’s very glad of [...]

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I Do Follow

September 18th, 2007 – 17:29

Some long time ago, Wordpress automatically gave links in the comments here a “rel=nofollow” tag. This meant that search engines would not “follow” the links in comments, meaning a site’s page ranking in said engines would not benefit from the comment. This was put in Wordpress at a time when comment spam was [...]

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Multiple link-and-run for 8/26

August 26th, 2007 – 13:29

Stuff I’ve been saving for a post, and am tired of waiting anymore:

I’ve shifted to Google reader. Bloglines has a couple of bugs that bother the snot out of me.
University Presses are being left behind by the digital era.
How to work almost completely online. I don’t know if I trust it, but I’m [...]

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Today’s “we’re not a biased media” post

August 18th, 2006 – 14:50

Google News.
5,000+ hits for “jonbenet ramsey”
51 hits for “holocaust cartoon exhibit”
I used to wish I was a prominent journalist, when I was in high school. I spent a year in college as a journalism major. Now I’m glad I’m surviving just slightly above poverty level while defending the country. And that’s not [...]

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