May 2009
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Nic’s 4th Birthday Video
May 30th
Kudos to the Tumblr Development Team
Once again, Tumblr and its team of developers has delivered! For starters, video and photo submissions now include a post title in the meta title of each page. Confused? Let me try to explain… I don’t know if this was a direct result of my suggestion, but last month I sent some SEO-related ideas to Marc and he responded quickly via e-mail that he appreciated the feedback and had...
May 30th
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Nicholas Peforms Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the Piano
May 29th
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String Quartet at Blacksburg United Methodist Church
May 29th
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Nic Riding His Huffy Around the Track
May 29th
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Nic Plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
May 28th
May 28th
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May 27th
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Track Clicks of Shared Links with Bit.ly
Remember Tiny URL? I do. I remember it like it was yesterday … well, it was about six months ago, but in the world of social media six months feels more like decade. I discovered a new URL-shortening tool called bit.ly. I have seen it before and even used it because it’s shortened URL structure was slightly smaller than Tiny URL, but it wasn’t until recently that I discovered...
May 26th
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Tumblarity at Zero
I love Tumblr. I really do. I have e-mailed Marc the occasional suggestions to improve the user interface and SEO-friendliness of the post structure. Each time Marc e-mails me back to thank me for the input and to let me know that he has forwarded my suggestion to the development team. But I take umbrage over Tumblr’s latest addition to the dashboard … the Tumblarity index. I lead a...
May 22nd
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Does Michael Vick Deserve a Second Chance?
Michael Vick is back home in Hampton, Va., after being released from prison yesterday. The disgraced and supposedly penniless former NFL star will begin work at one of W.M. Jordan Co.’s 40 commercial construction sites earning $10 an hour as a general laborer. The company’s president, John R. Lawson, is an ‘75 grad and a member of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. Clearly he...
May 22nd
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Google Including Ads at the Top of News Result...
I’ve been using Google News for quite some time and earlier this year, Google - the dominant search engine - began including ads on the right column of its news search results pages. But today, I noticed something new … at least it was new to me. My girlfriend will be the first (of many) to tell you that I am not exactly the most observant person in the world when it comes to certain...
May 21st
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It's as Simple as Being Indexed by Google and...
What a difference being indexed makes! I’m speaking, of course, about a Web site being indexed by Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN, the big four search engines. I manage several Web sites, but the biggest one in terms of traffic was not indexed and was actually blocking search engine robots from indexing the site via the robots.txt. I’m not entirely sure why someone would do that, but my...
May 20th
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Welcome to my Web War Room
Welcome to my digital computerized Web war room!
May 15th
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Nic Discovers Pedal Power!
May 14th
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Nic Riding His Big Boy Bike!
May 14th
What Did Twitter Do with the Fail Whale?
Funny. Kinda cute. But definitely no Fail Whale!
May 13th
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ListenThe Blacksburg Community Strings and Chamber...
May 11th
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2 Dom's, 1 to go?
dylvez: both Dom DeLuise and Dom DiMaggio died this week. If your name is Dom, you should either a) be really careful b) change your name
May 8th
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May 8th
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Phishing Scam Hits Facebook, User Accounts...
Looks like another phishing attack is hitting Facebook. I got an e-mail from a friend (whom I rarely hear from) and I was immediately suspicious. It read as follows: Subject: Help “Look at mygener.im” I clicked on the link and expected to see a login page that looked identical to Facebook, but instead I got a “Reported Web Forgery!” warning page. Just in case you do...
May 7th
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The Michael J. Fox Story, “Adventures of an Incurable Optimist” on Thursday, 10/9 CT on ABC
May 5th
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Who Is Following Me on Twitter?
Since joining Twitter in January 2008, I have posted more than 4,100 Tweets, received more than 500 “follow” notification e-mails and currently have 360 followers. At first, I did my best to weed out (i.e. block) the accounts using Twitter for the wrong reasons such as spamming, shameless self promotion or agressively pushing an agenda. But, with about 10 new follows a day, it became a...
May 4th