Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I’ve given and collected a lot of advice on how to improve your writing particularly online. That advice is spread over a number of different posts some of which get read, others go unheeded. While updating one of these old posts today I decided to collect the best of the best tips and links together [...]

Much digital ink gets spilled writing about Google’s ever changing search engine algorithm, but lately some folks have been starting to consider how they can increase something other than their GoogleJuice. Klout fancy themselves “The Standard of Influence”. Just like Google they have an algorithm that measures, ranks, and assigns a numerical score. Unlike PageRank [...]

Apparently yesterday while I was at a job interview or on the ferry or otherwise not online, Google made a major change to their search engine algorithm. They call it Search plus Your World which is a pretty lame name. People have already reduced it to an acronym SPYW or as I like to read [...]

Maybe I should create a Tumblog.  I thought about it, but created another blog over on WordPress.com.  I don’t follow many Tumblogs but there are one or two gems I’ve found and today one posted some pretty awesome animated gifs which are always popular with web surfers and bandwidth thieves.  One of the big problems [...]

There are many posts like this, but this one is mine. As has become tradition, after I write a long rambling post, I generally go to bed and think, no one is going to read all that crap. So I write another companion piece which is in a style more agreeable to the attention span [...]