If the US government and taxpayers allow the telecommunications industry to dictate the terms under which they receive $4.7 billion now and much more later in broadband stimulus money, then the government and the taxpayers deserve what they get, which won’t be much.
Why Your Business Blog Shouldn’t Be On Blogger
Here are just a few reasons why your main business blog should absolutely not be on blogger.com or really any of the free blog sites.
How You Shouldn’t Run a Campaign
The world of presidential Internet campaigns is new and largely uncharted. Unfortunately, some of the lessons will be learned the hard way—like Senator Barack Obama’s campaign learned this week.
A List Bloggers Shouldn’t Throw Stones
There are a number of fatal, hypocritical or naive flaws in almost every attack on paid posts by A list bloggers and it is time to show them their Achilles heel(s).
Shouldn’t We Blog About The Weather?
Winter time brings plenty of concerns about the weather. The Weather Channel has a little widget to add to blogs, showing the weather for the location picked by the site publisher.
Marketing Agencies Shouldn’t Publish Their Fees
Karri Flatla has given me a good topic for a future article in the business coaching series. She argues that B2B firms should publish their prices on their web site…
Chasing the Search Engines’ Algorithms . . . Should you or Shouldn’t you?
It’s a common occurrence. SEOs often spend countless hours trying to “break” a search engine’s algorithm.
Shouldn’t Metadata Be Everywhere?
Today, debates about metadata protocols seem to move glacially. But the need for much more labeling of business objects (like products) is getting more pressing as the search metaphor leaks into everyday life …
Web Credibility 101: Execs Shouldn’t Hide Their Identities
…and call center employees shouldn’t supervise ad campaigns. Since this company just contacted me by accident trying to reach either Google or Overture, now I get to trash their website.
Why Production servers shouldn’t have external interfaces
Read the Disclaimer
People sometimes want to use their application servers as firewalls. This seems attractive at first glance: slap in another network card, add some packet filtering, tighten the system down a bit and connect it to the outside world. Cheap and quick, but a very bad idea.