Archive for January, 2011

Stretched Thin

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Lately the number of concurrent projects on my plate have started building up to the point where I need more time in the day to get things done. there’s the pending launch of the Automatic Blog Machine, a couple of contract jobs, my regular 9-5 job, several active blogs, and now potentially a weekly video [...]

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Content Spinning Algorithm

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Someone asked me recently to develop a content spinner algorithm which can take a document and produce variations of that document. I thought it was an interesting thing to think about, and very rarely do I get to think about algorithms like this in my normal day-to-day programming. The document contains variation options with a [...]

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Tynt

Friday, January 14th, 2011

According to the marketing message on tynt.com there is a small but significant number of times that people simply copy and paste content from you website to email it to someone.  Getting attribution for this content and a link back to the source is what Tynt accomplishes.  With a small snippet of HTML and javascript [...]

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Speed of Implementation

Friday, January 7th, 2011

I was unable to find the source of this research study that was apparently done for the Harvard Business Review, but nonetheless I believe it to be true.  The study was looking to find the most important factor in determining a person’s or business’s success and found that above all else – leadership, vision, organization, [...]

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