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Sarah Palin Most Searched For Term on Internet Since Al Gore Invented It »
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Search Engines | Leave A Comment
Now here’s the closest thing I could find to a pitbull wearing lipstick, and probably a reminder why you don’t leave pooches alone with your make-up bag. I mean, it’s the wrong color for its fur-tone and everything.
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TAGS: google trends, lipstick, pitbull, sarah palin
Is Your Customer Service in it for the Long U-Haul? »
Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Internet, Press Strategies, Social Media, Web Credibility | 5 Comments
This past couple of weeks has been the best of times, but it’s also been the worst of times. I foolhardily coordinated our move back up round Cleveland the same weekend I left for England to go and surprise my Gran for her 90th. Yet it takes somebody who bleeds idiot or has serious luck issues to rent a 24 foot U-Haul truck that has a zombie battery, locks their keys in the trunk, misses flights, spends an exorbitant amount one way to get to their connecting flight only for it to be canceled on arrival, and has their laptop screen broken.
I get a little bit peeved at my lifelong insistence on jazzing up the mundane to heart attack proportions, but all in all I’m quite Zen about stuff going wrong or right. Fists pummeling dashboards is nothing more than a meditative chi release.
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TAGS: american airlines, boingo, chris miller furniture, continental, customer service, jermey pepper, new york, twitter, u-haul
I Wandered Lonely as a (Tag) Cloud »
Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | Leave A Comment
[Tag: Cloud]
If you go and take a look at the new archives page I’ve thrown up, you’ll notice (in descending order) a search form, monthly archives, archives by category with their own RSS feed, a latest posts section, and a TAG CLOUD. This just allows you to scavenge through our past piffle in a manner you may find suitable.
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TAGS: blogging, tag cloud, tagging
“I’m So (Not) Excited, and I Just Can’t Hide It” »
Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Social Media | 3 Comments
This morning, Justin accused me of being a bit short on the old handle. Or more short-tempered than usual.
I find this shocking for the fact that I like to think of myself as somewhat a-motional. (I know theoretically that means I don’t move around much, and I don’t, but a-emotional is far too clumsy and has me mentally over-exerting my jaw muscles just thinking about saying it.)
I think I may be over-compensating for any excitement about moving back up Cleveland way (don’t you be getting too excited, I shall be telecommuting) and going on vacation back to England on my own for a couple of weeks.
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TAGS: excited, friendfeed, lifestreaming, pointer sisters, twitter
You Don’t Get This at Starbucks »
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | Leave A Comment
A man walks into a coffee shop and asks for a cappa-frappa-lappa-dappa-ding-dong over ice and is told in no uncertain terms that he’s not welcome with his anathema to coffee taste.
He gets something approaching an iced coffee, leaves a swear word on a dollar bill as a tip then goes home to rant on his blog about his nondescript event claiming he’d only return to the place with a can of kerosene and some matches to torch the place.
Perhaps he didn’t account for the fact that the owner of the coffee shop also had a blog, but Mr. Owner decided to reply to the customer’s complaints in full on his blog culminating in a threat to punch the fella in his crown jewels.
The next thing you know it’s all over the Web and a WaPO reporter is interviewing everybody concerned.
You can get the overall picture/primer here, then read the two offenders’ take on proceedings here and here.
I just suggest you read it if you have the time, but be warned there are some naughty words floating around - after all, coffee can be a very emotive subject.
If you must know, I’m on the side of the coffee shop owner. I believe businesses should be able to set out their vision for a better world in whatever it is they may do.
Although there was no need for everybody concerned to be so ridiculous about it.
TAGS: coffee blogs, murky coffee
Health & Safety in the Webspace »
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Web Development | Leave A Comment
On my (now) regular morning flounce into work I adroitly negotiate my way past all manner of obstacles - the main street traffic, the weather-worn back alley prophylactic, and the clouds of pre-work smokers. But, this morning I had to make my way round a couple of roofers attending to their business on a building next to Subway on Market St.
Having been on a site or two in my time I’m well aware of certain health and safety measures. The most basic being, when working above the general public you have to cordon off an area so they aren’t walking under ladders or, to be more precise, walking into them.
Invariably this means wrapping yellow tape marked ‘caution’ round the base of your ladders, the nearest lamp post and a handy fire hydrant.
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Which Twittering Twit… »
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging, Social Media | 3 Comments
…after being explained the intricacies of Twitter said, of a tweet’s 140 character posting limit, “Is that per month?”
a) My lovely wife, Stephanie.
b) Ms. Riley, the world’s oldest blogger, who died this weekend at the age of 108.
c) An old chum I met on facebook recently who asked what Google was when replying to what I said I did for a living.
d) Me.
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TAGS: oldest blogger, olive riley, twitter
Cold. Hard. Numbers. »
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in PPC, Paid Search, SEM, Search Engines | 2 Comments
The only time anybody ever took any notice of something big and green, it was generally rather angry and unable to split its underpants. And that’s how you’d generally feel when using the Google AdWords keyword suggestion tool.
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TAGS: google adwords keyword suggestion tool
SEM Smart: Rainy Day SEO »
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in SEM, SEO | Leave A Comment
I knew there was a reason I’d stopped feasting on the evening offering of the various television networks. That reason has never been clearer than Celebrity Family Feud.
Heavens to Betsy.
Al Roker, the former(?) NBC blimp of a weatherman who hasn’t so much lost weight as deflated like a celebratory balloon that’s been left stuck to the wall for a couple of years, was the host. The two opening families were the Rivers’ (as in Joan) and the Ice-T’s.
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TAGS: SEM, SEO
Are you a John M(a)cCain or a (P)PC Guy? »
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging, PPC, Paid Search | Leave A Comment
A few weeks ago, John McCain was asked if he was a Mac or a PC guy, to which he answered:
“Neither, I’m an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.”
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TAGS: google adwords, john mccain, peter greenberger, PPC, presidential campaign ppc
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