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Blorum.info: A blog+forum for discussions, often with myself, about how the digital media industry functions. Since you've wandered in, feel free to share some thoughts as comments on the blog. You might find a few insights. Please share a few too.

Friday, September 11, 2020

Link Beggers...

It's amazing to me that link beggars are still out there begging... I get a few of these every week despite all the spam tools that sh...

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

What's with all the links?

To manage the process of optimizing our sites for the search engines (SEO), we license a tool called Conductor which helps us with tracking...

Monday, July 06, 2020

The Business Case for Podcasting

Lets assume that you are a business who runs an information site that makes its revenue on selling advertising to a specialized niche of peo...

Thursday, July 02, 2020

Hotwire Fision TV: Worst User Interface Ever?

I believe that when professors put together courses on designing user interfaces, the current Fision Hotwire remote interface should be used...

Saturday, March 28, 2020

How Facebook Decides What to Show You

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...

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

SEO Issues - Jan 2019

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

Friday, January 24, 2020

SEO History

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...

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Self Taught Engineers

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...

Saturday, November 09, 2019

Seth Godin on Learning: Response

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

Multitouch attribution models are replacing first-touch and last-touch methods of attribution. Multitouch attribution is used to figure out...

Thursday, September 26, 2019

BAD Customer Feedback Survey Design

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?

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

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...

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Blogger: What should I do?

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...

Thursday, March 21, 2019

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

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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