Satisfaction With E-Government Sites Falls
Citizen satisfaction with e-government dipped for a third straight quarter, according to the fourth quarter report of the American Customer Satisfaction Index. (ACSI) Over 100 federal Web sites that were measured fell 0.5 percent to 72.9 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale, the lowest score since the second quarter of 2005.
New Google Contest – Online Marketing Challenge
Looks like Google is having a contest to ask students across the world to help local business’ become more optimized in the Google SERPs: Register your class for the Google Online Marketing Challenge
More December Google Earth Updates
Almost two weeks ago, a post called "December Updates in Google Earth" was made on the official LatLong Blog, and I figured Google’s geographic information system (GIS) specialists were done for the year. I was wrong, though, as they’ve just released new, more detailed imagery.
Social Media Rule Breaking
Conformity often creates a feeling of comfort, but it also starts to generate acceptable social norms that soon become the de facto standard for the way things get done.
Search Insider Summit – Dominate the Universal SERPs
Do we need to change our entire campaigns to capitalize on universal search? Find out what you can do to better dominate the universal SERPs and grab searchers’ attention.
Phishing Attacks Increased In 2007
Phishing attacks in the U.S. rose in 2007 as $3.2 billion was lost to these attacks, according to a survey by Gartner.The survey found that 3.6 million adults lost money in phishing attacks in the 12 months ending August 2007, as compared with 2.3 million who did so the previous year. Phishing attacks were more successful in 2007 than they were in the past two years. Of those who received phishing emails in 2007, 3.3 percent said they lost money because of the attack, compared with 2.3 percent who lost money in 2006, and 2.9 percent who did so in 2006.
Journalism Is Different Than Surgery
Via David “DigiDave” Cohn (who got it from Dan Gillmor), I came across a mind-boggling piece of commentary from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in which former NBC correspondent and journalism instructor David Hazinski argues that “citizen journalism” needs to
Best Mixx Posts of the Year
Since we are winding down 2007, I thought it would be appropriate to put together what I thought are the top 10 blog posts about Mixx.com that have been written in 2007. Certainly there have been a lot of interesting blog posts about Mixx, but these are certainly the best ones. So, without further delay, here are the blog posts that I think are the top 10 blog posts about Mixx for 2007: Please note that I have not put these in any particular order.
Responding to Paid Link Post from Cutts
I have had a chance to deal with the odd email over the last 2 weeks whilst moving house, but I knew I should respond to this paid links post by Matt Cutts as soon as I was able to do so with some level of detail.
Google Won’t Make Judgements, but Desires to be Starting Point
With the announcement of Knol, Google displayed their desire to become a publisher. Why?