Nominations for the 2005 IIA Netvisionary Awards are now open. … [Read more...] about Netvisionary Awards – Nominations open
Google gets corporate – blogger fired
I posted recently about the dangers of blogs in relation to job prospects. One young blogger is now out of job due to his blogging about working in Google. Whether his blogging breached his contract terms with Google or not is probably of little interest to bloggers, who are probably more than a little shocked at how an "innocent" blog could cause so much trouble. … [Read more...] about Google gets corporate – blogger fired
Mandrake (mandriva) on the laptop
Over a year ago I first put some form of linux on my laptop. My distro choice at the time was Mandrake 9.1, but I moved on to try other distributions. To date my old Dell has seen: Mandrake 9.1 Mandrake 10.0 Suse 9 Ximian (on Suse - I know it's not a distro, but it is a big change) Debian testing Ubuntu Mandrake 10.1 (official) The last one went on this evening :) … [Read more...] about Mandrake (mandriva) on the laptop
Google PR update – still going
Judging by what I'm seeing the Google PR update still hasn't settled down. A couple of days ago I was seeing a clear PR of 5 on this blog, but now I see 4, while other people see 5. The only way to see what it is across all Google data centres is to use a tool like this one You can change the URL to your own :) … [Read more...] about Google PR update – still going
Meta content – where is it?
John had posted some interesting statistics based on his crawling of the IE namespace: Websites With Title, Keywords and Description: 10460 That's out of a corpus of 36198 domains!! So, if John's stats are true, and I have no reason to doubt him, approximately 66% of Irish websites have no meta content. Some SEO experts may say that meta content is not as important as it used … [Read more...] about Meta content – where is it?