Very simply – Social media as a concept is muddied and amorphous. Obviously, we’ve already seen a stampede of hip advertisers and cynical brands into those spaces; testing ‘messages’, ad models, cut through and viral activity.

As with every other media channel, barriers to entry creep lower and …

Just a quick post. Was just rerouting some of my django stuff so I can hang a test site that I was working on from a new domain and realised that I’d forgotten my admin password doh!

So instead of farting around hashing a replacement and putting it in the database I thought I’d have a go on the …

Some of you may know I was lucky enough to spend part of my childhood growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe.  The time I enjoyed there has made me even more angry about the decline of the country that was once known as the ‘bread basket of Africa’.

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I really enjoyed a post by Kate Morris on New Edge Media regarding the skillsets of PPC and SEO Managers, where they meet and where they differ.

I won’t go over that again but it did get me wistfully thinking about how much fun I’ve had acquiring these skills …

One of the challenges facing enterprise-level SEO is the general specification for large sites.

By that I mean rules to make sure we’re not wasting links by needlessly diluting the authority they bring; or contradicting the content focus that made our site and its structure profoundly relevant from …

Okay, now I’m interested to see if this works. Patrick over at BlogStorm has noticed that the BBC is no longer linking directly to those sweet sweet related links in the side bars of their stories. They in fact are passing through a redirection script. Seems to me though, that I can easily link to …

Ok, so firstly, my god it’s been a while internet, I’ve missed you. I’ve managed to build self indulgent blogs, wannabe comments, flickr profiles, facebook profiles, lame profiles, web design businesses, rubbish affiliate sites and hilarious attempts at pushing the boundaries of xml (in 2004! and …