Dipping into the Blogpond

Just a quick post. I submitted a couple of my blog posts to “The Gender Genie” at the Book Blog and it tells me that I write like a man! This site analyses your writing and attempts to predict your gender. It works best with posts of 500 words plus. From the site: “Inspired by […]

An article from the SMH today about Google and Microsoft both planning aerial sorties on Friday (Australia Day) as part of the Look Up and Smile Campaign (which Microsoft is sponsoring). Microsoft are planning a large aerial shoot in Centennial Park. Attendees are advised to wear all white and assemble by 10.00 am. There is […]

It’s actually taken me a couple of days of mulling this one over before actually putting fingers to keyboard. Mark Fletcher wrote a post on Friday on the Findit blog entitled Was it good for you? SEO and faking search results. He begins:- “Thanks to SEO experts and fat wallets, companies are faking it online. […]

Thanks to everyone who found my post on Egosurfing interesting subject material, and to the 2 3 readers – Alister, Raincoaster and Entech who took the time to report back their results. Te he – proved my husband wrong in that it was my most popular post by 35%, and 30% of readers actually clicked […]

I have a confession to make. I have a Google alert for the term “blogpond”. Today I got such an alert that took me to a results page entitled “Ego Surf – ego surfing without the guilt”. The results weren’t even for me, but somehow I ended up with the alert anyway. (A word of […]

When I started this blog, I didn’t really have a particular subject theme in mind, but I realise that I’m tending towards a “local” theme. I suppose in order for a blog to be successful, one has to write about what interests them, and for me I guess it’s “local” – local sites, local search, […]

I wrote a post recently entitled Blogging in Australia, in which I touched briefly on the “.com.au” domain. I wonder if I am alone searching for local Australian content? In performing “pages from Australia” only searches on Google? Perhaps running two very localised websites – an Australian local business directory site and an Australian funeral […]

An article in today’s SMH stating that “James Packer’s Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL) has joined with Sir Tony O’Reilly’s APN News & Media in New Zealand to have a crack at the country’s online classifieds market. PBL’s New Zealand subsidiary ACP Media and APN plan to develop sellmefree.co.nz, a free online general classified site […]

Michael Sainsbury’s article in the Australian IT today entitled “Search Party to Last all Year” has raised another interesting point for me. He states “…search (revenue) is tearing ahead at somewhere over 50 per cent, perhaps as high as 70 per cent.” He goes onto say “Much of the action has been, and will continue […]

An interesting article by Michael Sainsbury in the Australian IT today entitled “Search Party to Last all Year“, which is congruent with my feelings on the growth of local search. In this article he talks about the large increase in revenues coming from “…banner/display advertising, classifieds and search”. He goes onto mention that Google “…is […]