Would you go into a high street shop tha... I’m gonna assume the answer is no. Giving info like full name, postal address, e-mail isn’t the kind of thing you expect to have to do purely to browse around. So why do so many web sites insist on asking for exactly that? I got a little irate earlier this week (maybe ’cause I’d...

IE8: Saviour of the Semantic Web, or Usa... I’ve been pushing web standards for years, so the news that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 will support W3C guidelines by default is very welcome from where I’m sitting. There is one problem, though. They’ve announced that sites including CNN, Facebook and MySpace won’t...

How Chris Brogan Got Me a Link Without K... Mark Cahill is someone I’ve always known of and respected, so I was delighted to find (albeit a bit late) that he’s mentioned (and linked to) me in one of his posts. I wanted to share it with you because it goes to show just how much more valuable Social Media is than SEO. In the comments,...

One Simple Anti-Poverty Act at Christmas... Today is Blog Action Day 2008 (BAD08) so to do my little bit I’m going to share with you one easy way you can do your bit to help in the fight to eradicate poverty. We are starting to see the beginnings of the Christmas season now, with shops beginning to put out Christmas stands and adverts with...

I have nothing to be worried about... Tamar Weinberg of Search Roundtable today asked, “do search penalty discussions worry you?” Well, Tamar, I’d have to having something to worry about in order to be worried. The way I see it, unless you’ve been employing optimisation techniques aimed specifically at improving rankings,...