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Search Engine Optimization: Silverlight VS Flash

Posted on: Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in: Other, SEO

Ah, they did it. Or so some would have you think.
Microsoft is including an XML presentation layer in Silverlight to address a major problem with Flash: Search Engine Optimization.
Of course, with Flash, you need to use the SWFObject to provide copy to search bots. Otherwise, you are transparent to them.
With Silverlight, you have XML. Quite [...]

Twitter? Why?

Posted on: Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 in: Other

I signed up for Twitter.
I told it what I was doing for a day.
My last entry was, “Deciding that this is a waste of time.”
I imagine that for certain environments, under certain conditions, it may provide a cute way to keep people informed as to what you (or a group of people) are doing, but [...]

3 Ways for Small Businesses to Implement Effective Project Management Without Going Insane or Broke

Posted on: Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 in: Project Management

PMI is overkill for your company and you don’t want to hire a PMP, have your organization learn the processes and fill their mind with things that will not be immediately effective and relevant to what they do. RUP is a mystery, and the MSF is way too intense. You read an article on [...]

Steps Towards Creating a Custom Project Management Methodology

Posted on: Saturday, September 15th, 2007 in: Project Management

In developing a project management methodology or project lifecycle, it makes sense to look at the most popular methodologies in existence and try to see what they have in common, what they share, and what would be a potentially good starting point for a new project management methodology. It also makes sense, I think, to [...]

DMOZ Corrupt?

Posted on: Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 in: Other, SEO

ShoeMoney is a veritable SEO guru. He is, in my point of view, *the* expert on all things search engine related.
Of all the Search Engine Systems, DMOZ has classically been the one with the least bias, the most creditability, the toughest one to get into.
Apparently, they are corrupt and have extorted ShoeMoney.
This really is [...]