Someone needs to hire a new copy editor at The Dallas Observer. Full article here.

I’ve been running Akismet on this blog since day one and it’s been absolutely fantastic at catching blog spam. The false positive percentage has been nearly zero – somewhere in the 0.01% range. I normally sort through the akismet stuff every other day and double check for any errors. I’ve gathered up a few of [...]

I gotta say this is the first time one of my sites have ever been hacked. I especially like the spinning green skull and crossbones. Funny thing is we finally recruited some new bloggers and there was actually some useful content on the site. Check it out here. Here’s a screenshot for posterity:

Anybody heard anything about SEOmoz and Rand? I’m concerned somthing bad has happened. My evidence? No blog post yet today! see? Somebody drive over to his office and see if the lights are on please.

I’ve been reading around a lot of blogs lately and come to the conclusion that in order to foster blog readership and comment contribution you need some creative original ideas. So here we go: . . . . . . . . . …perhaps a beer will help the creative process… . . . . [...]

I have a new favorite linkurbator – Rand Fishkin. I’m probably one of the last people on the planet to add SEOmoz to my feed reader but I’ve been getting some good amusement lately from Rand’s excellent ability to put out some good posts that, IMHO, are purely link bait. Check out these titles: Some [...]

So I’m doing my usual rambling about on SEO Rockstars tonight and this dude I’ve never met before is hangin in the chat and he pipes up after the show that he just registered toddfriesen.com (my real name for you new to the blog). Yes – totally my bad for not having registered it but [...]

For any of you Colbert Report fans out there you’ll be well familiar with ColbertNation.com. Colbert mentions them on nearly every show and they have their URL in the credits at the end of the show. Not bad. As an SEO/Viral Marketer that’s the kind of thing I dream of. Tho I suppose I’d actually [...]

Well, Colbert did it again. Just a couple minutes ago he suggested someone make some changes to the entry on wikipedia for latchkey kids. I grabbed my laptop, fired it up, typed in wikipedia.org and already the page had been locked. Check out the discussion. Just in case anyone was wondering, it took approximately 13 [...]

So last night I stayed up late to watch two of my favorite shows; The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I was well rewarded for fighting off the sandman and staying awake that extra hour. Steven Colbert made a nice mockery of Wikipedia: Shortly after he told everyone to head over to Wikipedia and [...]