Bookmarks for December 18th through December 19th

These are my links for December 18th through December 19th:

Why Google Must Die – Columns by PC Magazine – By reverse-engineering the way Google operates, SEO experts can see how the process works. From a user’s perspective, once you learn how Google does what it does, it’s a miracle that you ever get the right results. And from my experience, the right results in many circumstances are nearly impossible to obtain—and may never be obtainable in the future.Let’s look at some of the problems that have developed over the years.
- Another Way to Count Calories – You can get a rough estimate of the calories you will expend in many activities with a simple formula developed by physiologists using a yardstick known as the Metabolic Equivalent, or MET. A single MET represents the amount of energy used at rest. The University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health maintains what it calls the Compendium of Physical Activities, which gives the MET value of an array of sports, exercises and everyday tasks. It’s basically a list of how much extra energy gets used if you run a 10-minute mile or spend time raking leaves.
The Best Business Book I’ve Read This Year « Organizations and Markets – Rosenzweig writes what many management researchers — particularly those trained in economics — believe, but are afraid to say out loud: namely, that what passes for “research” in the popular management press is typically little more than gobbledy-gook, the stuff skewered by Micklethwait and Wooldridge in The Witch Doctors. How can you not admire a guy who writes:
An Entrepreneur’s Look at 2009: The End or A New Beginning? – David Silverman – As an entrepreneur, I’ve worried that the economic downturn might make this a terrible time to go entrepreneur-ing.Not only have I focused more on my day job, my personal consumer confidence is also way down–i.e., no new camera I’ve been lusting for to record my infant son’s first spittle.But what about other industries? Will 2009 bring the end of entrepreneurship in say, publishing, music, real estate, PR, web 2.x and improv comedy? I don’t know, but wishing I did, I asked some friends who, lucky for me, are in exactly those businesses. Here’s what they had to say about the year to come
Architects Rule! : Real-life Dilbert manager quotes – A magazine recently ran a ‘Dilbert Quotes’ contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. These were voted the top ten quotes in corporate America
People don’t trust company blogs. What you should do about it. – Consumers trust company blogs less than any other channel.This result comes from a survey we did in Q2 of 2008. Have a look at the data yourself. Not only do blogs rank below newspapers and portals, they rank below wikis, direct mail, company email, and message board posts. Only 16% of online consumers who read corporate blogs say they trust them. If you’re a corporate blogger or somebody who advises companies, you need to take this into account.
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Link Building Strategies: 69 Solid Tactics For 2009 | Wiep.net – Six and a half years ago (which is ages, in Internet years), Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander compiled a legendary list of 131 legitimate link building strategies. Four years later, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans published 101 link building tips to market your website, which was inspired by the other article. Considering the furiously changing face of search engine marketing and with 2009 already ahead of us, I thought it was time to evaluate both lists and create an updated collection of link building strategies
10 Firefox add-ons that porn fiends love | News | TechRadar UK – Yes, it’s true, porn addicts may have somewhat ’specialist’ tastes. But when it comes to Firefox, they want much the same as the rest of us: great search tools, professional security, faster and easier downloads, and improved browsing privacy. They really just need these 10 top Firefox extensions, in fact – and so do you.
8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks | How-To | Smashing Magazine – While plug-ins and even coding hacks can solve some problems and achieve some tasks, sometimes you don’t have any other choice than to execute SQL commands in phpMyAdmin or directly to the database via SSH. Let’s take a look at 8 useful SQL hacks for WordPress. Each section of this post presents a problem, suggests a solution and provides an explanation to help you understand the solution
100 top sites for the year ahead: our latest selection finds that location-based services, work-anywhere collaboration and video are prominent | Technology | The Guardian – The biggest changes since 2006 have been in the fields of collaborative online services that let people in different locations work simultaneously on projects. Collaboration in 2006 was very much focused on words, but now you can create presentations that look as though they were made with expensive packages. And then you can share those presentations, or look at other work that people have done – and even download them. You can convert files without needing expensive systems. Collaborative working has never been easier, even across different platorms. The web really is becoming the operating system, as the rise of the “netbooks” (aka ultraportables, aka Liliputers) emphasises.