• A Banner Day for Yours Truly

    Lookie who got on the digg home page today: That doesn’t happen every day, so pardon me while I gloat a little. (Here’s the digg story URL.) In fact, it’s only the third time I’ve put a story on the home page. But this an interesting study in headline writing: I submitted the same article …

    April 29, 2008
  • Social Media Submits: April 27

    Slowly getting back on the horse after a week of too much travel. Here’s what I shared on various social media sites in the past day or so: digg Experts: We’re 10 Years Away from Lowering Gas Prices mixx It Really Sucks Being the Little Brother Tracking War Criminals via Google Maps White House candidates …

    April 28, 2008
  • New Coldplay Single: Free Download

    Just got an email from Coldplay.com telling me that they’re giving away the band’s new single, “Violet Hill,” as a free download beginning Tuesday on Coldplay.com. The free download will be available for a week. The new album is called Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, and (as you can almost see …

    April 27, 2008
  • Did You Know Squirrels are Friendly?

    This squirrel pretty much begged for my attention while I was walking around the Northwest Forest Conference Center near Houston last week. I ended up taking maybe 15 different pics of him (her?), and this one might be the best. He just sat on the branch posing for me as I took shot after shot….what …

    April 27, 2008
  • Update: Still Not on Twitter

    Last week in Houston, when every speaker (except me and Stoney D.) at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference said the word “twitter” at least 25 times, I made a simple promise to everyone telling me to sign up: as soon as I rank #1 in Google for [last person on twitter], I’ll sign up. …

    April 26, 2008
  • Another Week of Blogging

    This past week was all about airports, hotels, conferences, and speaking gigs … so it was pretty light on the blogging side of things. Here’s all I managed to post since the last recap: Small Business SEM The Future of Search Conferences: Smaller Is Better (includes a video interview with yours truly!) SBMU 2008 is …

    April 26, 2008