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11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google - ReadWriteWeb
Much being said about Google and it’s future at the moment. Worth a read…
(tags: Google search trends future disruption innovation searchengine disruptive)

One of my professional speaking colleagues, Erik Vermeulen, forwarded a very cool email newsletter to me the other day. Normally that would tick me off but the newsletter, produced by Scott Ginsberg (check out his site and blog, they’re awesome), had an article titled 46 Marketing Mistakes Your Company Is (Probably) Making that caught my eye. I read it an thought I’d share it with you - some of it ought to be familiar already but there are a bunch of cool thoughts I thoroughly enjoyed…

I’ve just picked up on a fantastic post from one of my favourite bloggers, Lee LeFever from the Common Craft Show which is a must-read for all of us immersed in the Web 2.0 evolution.

I’ve often criticised advertising agencies of losing site of the bigger picture as a result of striving for bigger, flashier ads, edgier copy and design and of course, elusive awards. But Lee’s post has pointed my accusatory finger right back at me - do I have blinkers 2.0? Am I so worried about my traffic, Twitter replies and blog rankings that I’ve forgotten that the vast majority of my clients and their customers don’t know about, or don’t care about anything 2.0-ish.

Ok, so this funky drum solo is a bit flash, but my goodness Thomas Lang can play a little bit…

After suffering the tragic loss of Ashley Callie earlier this year it’s good to see that the Isidingo production team and cast still have a sense of humour…

Stop posting for 10 whole days.
Use a boring generic WordPress theme as a placemarker while you take too much time redesigning your site.
Stop replying to comments.
Use all the free time you have over two consecutive long weekends to become a better Texas Hold’em player, instead of keeping track of what’s happening in the blogosphere.
Ignore Twitter [...]

Ok so it’s been a long time coming but my blog design has needed a serious refresher. I’m in the process of doing so right now, so excuse the current bland-ness. This should only take a few days

I’d noticed that I’d become progressively less and less interested in Facebook over the last month or two. A bit like LinkedIn - which I discovered, indulged in, enjoyed, and then subsequently forgot, Facebook had somewhat lost it’s luster. From being the first thing I checked the first moment I got online, I [...]

I can’t believe I’ve never thought of this / done this before. In the process of catching up on my outstanding RSS feeds I found this interesting post by Adii where he poses the following question to his readers:
I’m regularly astounded by the number of you that take an interest in what I blog here [...]