Blogging is About the 80-20 Rule

To demonstrate world-class expertise, says Jakob Nielsen, avoid quickly written, shallow blog postings. Instead, says the web usability guru, invest your time in thorough, value-added content that attracts paying customers.

Facebook? Why Now?

John Battelle asks a compelling question: why Facebook and why now? Scott Rosenberg of Slate follows up with another point: that Facebook’s friends definitions are all messed up.

A Basic Lesson On Marketing To The “Wego”

Raise your hand if you have heard the term "blego."  Ok, that's probably not a good experiment since I can't see you ... but it's an increasingly common word being used to describe the hyperactive egos of many bloggers.

OS Licensing for SaaS

Open Source came before, if not provided a platform for, Software as a Service.  Open Source Licenses have a big loophole for the most common method of software distribution today.  Tim O'Reilly addresses this while making yet another argument for open data.

Hotlinking Pictures for SEO

Michel Telendro tells me it has become a search engine optimization practice (black to gray-hat, I assume) of hotlinking images from other servers... to rank your own site well in Google Image search results.