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I’ve taken up the DailyPost Challenge!
January 5, 2011 in social media, web | Tags: postaday2011, social media, web 2.0 | Leave a comment
I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a day if possible, and definitely once a week for all of 2011.
I know it won’t be easy, so I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.
If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.
Signed,
Peter ‘Scruffian’ Barnes
New Years Geeky Resolutions, part one
January 5, 2011 in Search Engine Optimisation, web | Tags: blogging, google, newyear's resolutions, seo, social media, web 2.0 | Leave a comment
Didn’t quite get the googlewhack for ‘scruffian’ last year – the top two hits are taken by an impostor, Ben Dwyer. To be fair his domain pre-dates mine; that adds to the googlewhack challenge as Google respects long-standing domains in its ranking algorithms. Determined to get that top spot though. Yes, I know it’s petty, but it’s just a little fun and something to motivate me to make more use of this site.
Death to all Spambots
December 5, 2010 in web | Tags: social media, spam, twitter, web 2.0 | Leave a comment
Is there no communication channel money-grubbing sh*tkickers won’t pollute? For a while Twitter was refreshingly free of spammers, but of course that couldn’t last for long, despite Twitter’s best efforts to counter spam. I first noticed a spambot driven follow back in February, when I mentioned going to Exeter in a tweet and was immediately followed by an Exeter based estate agency.
Since then the spam has become more intrusive – the bots are now sending tweets to me when they latch onto a tweet. I’ve also encountered ‘joke’ spambots that will replace a word in a tweet and then retweet it, e.g. sausagebot. I fear that if we’re not careful the spam situation could be as bad as with email, with Twitter clients having to filter spam as best they can, or Twitter users having to lock down their accounts.
I wish I could enter the Twittersphere, Matrix style, and with a virtual flame thrower carbonise the spambots. Pending technology becoming that advanced, please be good citizens: block and report spammers for the good of us all.
