Give Your Employees a Break Today: Are You a McJob Manager?

What's a McJob? Judging by McDonald's response to one of the 10,000 additions to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, managers now have a new yardstick by which they can determine if their employees will honestly say "i'm lovin' it"(sic) or not, with regard to employment satisfaction.

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Google Goes Topical: The Smoking Gun

Uncovering The New Algorithm There have been all sorts of theories put forward about Google's new algorithm. What I present here, as far as I can tell, fits the facts at hand. You are welcome to disagree with me.

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Major Changes At Google

This journey started on November 16, 2003... The fourth edition of "Search Engine Optimization Fast Start" (a.k.a. SEO Fast Start) had just gone through the final proofreading and editing stages, and I was writing the email to notify my readers of its availability, when my phone rang with a little bit of breaking news. Google had suddenly started acting "crazy," according to the caller.

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Creating a Custom Mouse Curser in Flash

This week I'm going to show you how to make your mouse arrow customized using simple actionscript in Flash. This is a neat effect you can use if you want the mouse to match the scheme of your site, but try not to go overboard as lots of Flash developers have done in the past.

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