• Archive for May, 2008

    Rediscovering Automatic Black

    by Matt • May 25, 2008 • 2 Comments

    Several years ago, I popped Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 into my Playstation 2, and was immediately blown away by the awesome theme song — a song I’d never heard before. It was called “Crash and Burn.” The band was Automatic Black. I’d never heard of them, either. Online research led me to an in-progress [...]

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    This Week in Blogging

    by Matt • May 23, 2008 • 0 Comments

    Heh. I like the baseball-tinged headline there. If only Mel Allen were around to provide some audio for me. (Does anyone know what I’m talking about, or am I too old?) Anyway, here’s a week’s worth of blogging. Small Business SEM What I’ve Learned About the SEO Success Pyramid We’re Still Twittering for Charity SBS [...]

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    More Flickr Photos Found in the Wild

    by Matt • May 18, 2008 • 2 Comments

    Found this one on a site called iTricks: That photo of the goose and her goslings always gets links and traffic on Mother’s Day. In fact, it was also used on a blog about information security. Cool. Here are the others I’ve found over the past couple weeks: Annegirl used my photo of apple tree [...]

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    My Next Car…

    by Matt • May 17, 2008 • 3 Comments

    … won’t actually be a car, it’ll be a Toyota Highlander. Like maybe this one: In late 2006, when I started working at Marchex and was faced with having to drive the 200+ miles from West Richland to Seattle at least twice a month, I had a feeling my little Toyota Corolla (the 1999 model) [...]

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    Blogging on Vacation (and after)

    by Matt • May 16, 2008 • 0 Comments

    Here’s everything I blogged over the past week, a few of which were written in advance and scheduled to publish while the McGee 4 were on vacation. Small Business SEM Merchant Circle’s Cold-Calling Campaign Continues Community: The Human Element of SEO Success I’m On the Hot Seat Next Week Links To Make a Mom (and [...]

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    The Best Grapes in the World

    by Matt • May 15, 2008 • 1 Comment

    Here’s a little food advice from me to you, something you can take advantage of on that grocery store visit you’ll be making this weekend: If you like grapes (and who among us doesn’t?), you need to know that the best grapes in the world come from Chile, and they’re probably in your store now, [...]

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