Affiliate Summit Las Vegas: Survival Guide
With the Affiliate Summit just days away, here’re a few pointers especially if it’s your first time to the summit: Vegas Throat: Specific to Las Vegas, you will lose your voice very easily if you don’t take care of your throat. The dry desert air creates a lot of static electricity, it also dries out your throat and you’ll find yourself losing your voice at the end of day 1 or day 2 if you don’t drink enough liquids or take throat lozenges to give your throat a break.
Many Households Still Unready For TV Switch
Remember the 1982 tune "TV Party"? Black Flag saw the humor in television addiction, but on February 18th, 2009, some people could be singing the song’s last few stanzas without a hint of sarcasm. Less than a year is left before the switch from analog to digital signals takes place, and ten percent of American households remain unprepared.
Idol Goes iTunes for Season 7
Fox and Apple have jointly launched an iTunes store for American Idol performances, in case you thought Fox was finished co-branding and cross-promoting (milking) the Other-Super Bowl*.
Google Earth Adds New Images In Spain
Google Earth has added some new imagery in Spain according to the Google Earth Blog.Frank Taylor writes," There’s a noticeable new area of imagery on the eastern edge of Spain covering Barcelona, which is copyrighted "Institut Cartogrfic de Catalunya". This imagery is not particularly high resolution – I would estimate about 1 meter/pixel. Not as good as Digital Globe, which is 60 cm/pixel."
Using Google Can Become A Habit
My wife Jill was the victim of another drive-by “why-ing” — and I, of course, was the perpetrator. There’s a small specialty grocery store where we live that Jill visits every week or two. And almost every time, she complains about the experience. Outdated stock is repackaged. Food is rancid. The staff is surly. But she keeps buying there. After listening to another long-winded vent, I dared to go where no man should go. I asked her “why?” There were a number of reasons that she gave. It’s on the way on her daily route. Parking is convenient. Prices are low. But the biggest reason was one she didn’t express, because she didn’t know it. It had become a habit. And habits are tough things to break.
Fighting Google’s Paid Link Stance With Robots.txt
Andy Beard has hit upon a compromise between removing text links from his site and being summarily punished by Google for selling them.
Google News Slow To Reinstate UN Critic
Inner City Press, a one-man full-time operation with volunteer contributors, should be back on Google News following an anonymous complaint that caused it to be delisted.
Wikipedia Won’t Remove Muhammad Images
Wikipedia is refusing to remove images of the prophet of Islam’s Muhammad despite hundreds of thousands of requests.In some Muslim traditions, it is considered offensive to depict the prophet for fear the image would become an object of idol worship. Wikipedia argues that it is not offensive in all traditions, and that they will not bow to pressure to remove the images.
U.K. Online Properties Attract Global Traffic
A recent study from comScore on the global traffic to online properties in the U.K. found that online traffic coming from outside the U.K. outnumbered the domestic visitors to the BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times and The Daily Mail.
Not President’s Day At Google, Apparently
Ready the vegetable-tossers, conspiracy theorists, and patriotic guillotiners: Google and Yahoo have snubbed President’s Day.Google especially (in part because nobody pays attention to Yahoo unless Microsoft tries to buy them) is known for spicing up its logo on special days, to commemorate artists, historic accomplishments, and often, national holidays.