29th Oct 2008

Social Networking

I’ve used plenty of social networking sites like Digg, MySpace, Facebook for years, before most people knew they existed, but one  site that I didn’t jump on straight away, was Twitter.
The idea of the site never really appealed to me, and I never really gave it much thought.
At Web Directions this year in Sydney, I [...]

23rd Jun 2008

What have you been putting online?

Whether you write your own little blog your family reads or run a business online, everything is on the internet and you just don’t know who is reading it, or what they’re doing with it. Even having a MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook account can be rather detrimental to someone’s profile.
More and more businesses are Google’ing [...]

14th Apr 2008

What in the world?

I was just writing my last post, and looked through my source code on my website.. and I looked at the footer… and what did I find??? SPAM!!!
Outbound links to http://www.loyno.edu/~voigt/n1/………
Hundreds of them.. straight into the wordpress admin, and in the footer.php file, there we have it all.
Wow, that is an odd one…
How it got [...]

11th Apr 2008

Wow, Google really does care

I own a large number of domains… one of them is a fan site for Rove (Rovefeed.com)
I got an email (as the registrant) from the almighty G. Stating the following,
Dear site owner or webmaster of rovefeed.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside [...]

24th Mar 2008

Time to call the “experts”

I love seeing people who claim to be “all that and a bag of potato chips” be it in any field.