Saturday, March 28, 2020

How Facebook Decides What to Show You

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Sometimes when I'm on Facebook, I see these posts about the secret to seeing more of your friends posts .  They seem silly to me but man...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

SEO Issues - Jan 2019

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Your Money, Your Life - This principle is being used by Google to crack down on spammy industries in which predatory practices are rampant ...
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Friday, January 24, 2020

SEO History

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I aspire to writing a better SEO history than I have yet read. Here's a good source one: Search Engine Journal on Search History. Mo...
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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Self Taught Engineers

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I thought this article on being a self taught engineer was great. It's by Amina Adewusi who wanted to get a career going as a coder.  Sh...
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Saturday, November 09, 2019

Seth Godin on Learning: Response

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Usually, Seth is pithy and insightful.  Today, he sounded naive to me. Although it post was brief. Seth said The difference between memori...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Designing a Multitouch Attribution Model for Online Marketing

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Multitouch attribution models are replacing first-touch and last-touch methods of attribution. Multitouch attribution is used to figure out...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

BAD Customer Feedback Survey Design

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I just had a frustrating experience with a chat window with a vendor. At the end, they popped up a survey and in a fit of good naturedness,...
Friday, September 20, 2019

United Airlines Communications Policy: What?

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Dear United Airlines, We had a trip that went horribly awry yesterday due to bad weather.  My wife got separated from her suitcase.  She h...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Long Form Forums

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I believe that the rise of the short form and visual social media came at a high cost: the destruction of the long form special interest for...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Blogger: What should I do?

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I have a number of blogs, such as this one and Amused by Jokers , and a Black Belt at 50 , that I have maintained for years using the simpl...
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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Apple: "Want Privacy, Choose an iPhone" - Huh?

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This morning, I was greeted on Twitter by a sponsored tweet from Apple that said "The iPhone is built for privacy". As I clicked t...
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Monday, March 04, 2019

“We meet all Federal regulations”

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“We meet all Federal regulations” I read Seth Godin's email most days. It started one Sunday about 4 months ago when I heard him bein...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Fixing the Academy Awards

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Surprise! The Academy Awards are again really really boring. And again, the Academy (and all the critics) seem to miss the obvious proble...
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Google Calendar, Blogger, and iPad Bugs!

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One of the amazing, practically disconcerting behaviors of Google Calendar is that it automatically injests all flight reservations cited in...
Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Real People Jokers

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Can you help? (this post is on the wrong site: It should be on the joker collecting website !) I have around a gross of jokers in what I ...