Seriously, forget about it. No really, don’t even bother. As today’s web evolves, you’re better off creating your own one or two page site with a blogging platform with links to relevant social media where you’ll do most of your work anyway. Most important of all, provide useful and basic information that can be easily accessed with a mobile device !

• Be to the point. Nobody cares about splash screens, flash intros, portfolios or any other useless drivel beyond the basics : Who, What, When, Where, How and WHY!
• People perform searches on the go. They now spend more time searching with a mobile device than on destop computers.
• People want to know WHERE you are. If you’re not on Google Maps, you don’t really exist.
• People want to know WHAT you do. Be social. Facebook for instance is the best way to get people to know you and trust your services.
• Get involved with niche web 2.0 services relevant to your industry.
• Forget twitter. It’s basically for politicians, celebrities and news.

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This post will contain some of our latest finds that don’t merit a full article. Some of these links and articles are wonderful resources.

• Breaking News
  • 10 Trends That Are Shaping Global Media Consumption
  • Who Will Save Apple If Steve Leaves? Meet The Dream Team
  • Exclusive: Apple will remove home button on next iPad and iPhone; Photo Booth and iLife coming?
• Wordpress links
  • Why you should never search for “Free Wordpress Themes” on Google : malicious code everywere?
  • Predictions for Wordpress in 2011
  • Turning Wordpress into a Forum : bbPress
  • Anatomy of a Wordpress Theme
  • How I Decreased My WordPress Page Load Time by 5 Seconds
• More Web Design Stuff
  • Should you work for free – a funny flowchart
  • 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites
• Apple stuff
  • Confessions of an Apple Store Employee
  • 30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks to Get The Most From Your Mac Roundups 30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks to Get The Most From Your Mac
  • Apple’s Diabolical Plan to Screw Your iPhone
• Web 2.0
  • The spectacular decline of 2.0 sites
  • A Web 2.0 Suicide Machine or how to erase your 2.0 footprint

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When you create a link to a website this always strengthens its position in search engines. This means that a bad review of a website, or the link to a malicious website makes it more popular. If you’re using social media and you are discussing or alerting others about a website that promotes scams or other questionable business and you link to that site, search engines will, despite your best wishes, improve the offending site’s rank.

With donotlink.com, you can link to sites without giving them any Google juice. Donotlink.com uses three different ways to block search engines from crawling a link including a shortened url. Donotlink.com also has a great sense of humour – See above image!

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1. Godwin’s Law – Comparing something to Hitler or the Nazis is inevitable in any online discussion.
2. Poe’s Law – Without a blatant display of humour, it is impossible to make a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t take as real.
3. Rule 34 – If it exists there IS porn of it.
4. Skitt’s Law – Any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself. Also the likelihood of an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster.
5. Cohen’s Law – Whoever resorts to the argument “whoever resorts to the argument that… has automatically lost the debate” has automatically lost the debate.
6. Pommer’s Law – A person’s mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be: From having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.
7. The Law of Exclamation – The more exclamation points used in an email (or other posting), the more likely it is a complete lie. This is also true for excessive capital letters.
8. Scopie’s Law – In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately …and gets you laughed out of the room.
9. Danth’s Law – If you have to insist that you’ve won an Internet argument, you’ve probably lost badly.
10. Grey’s Law – Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

Did we hear ENCORE?

1. Shaker’s Law – Those who announce their imminent departure from an Internet discussion forum almost never actually leave.
2. Timecube Law – The longer the page, the more insane the author.
3. Skarka’s Law – No matter how vile or indefensible something is, someone will post something positive or in defense of it.



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The web is now littered with dead blogs. According to the New York Post, there were 200,000 abandoned blogs … in 2007. According to Richard Jalichandra of Technorati, the number of abandoned blogs is anywhere from 7 to 10 million in 2009.

Why do people abandon their blogs? Why do they start them in the first place? Too many have bought into the rags to riches stories of self-employed bloggers or have run out of topics, energy or desire to update. Now that reality has hit home, these dead blogs litter the web like dead leaves in November.

Read more about dead blogs: New York Times – Times Daily – New York Times – Blogging Experiment…

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We remember the web when the only source of income was direct sales and domain squatting… Today, there are many options available for those who wish to monetize their sites without driving away readers. The important first step for any blogger is to test every monetization service out there and find out what works best for your sites. Don’t assume because something is great for someone else’s blog that is the case for all blogs! One note of caution: read the terms of service as some monetization services are not compatible with competitors.

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