Archive for September, 2009

Martial Law on the Internet?

Recently, there has been talk of a proposed bill in Congress which could give the White House the authority to control the internet in the event of an emergency.  Bill S.773, also called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Sen. Olympia Snow (R-ME), presents the potential for a sort [...]

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Optimizing for Bing AND Google

Once upon a time in a faraway land, there was a kingdom.  And in this kingdom there was a single king.  His name was Google.  There were other nearby kingdoms, called Yahoo and MSN Live Search, but they were so small and inconsequential that none of the peasants bothered to go there.  The common man [...]

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When Social Networks Backfire

The old adage says that “all press is good press,” but with the omnipresence of social networks, this theory may change.  It can be relatively easy to achieve celebrity in a socially networked world, but it seems to be just as easy to achieve notoriety and infamy.  People might forget the negative press.  YouTube never [...]

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