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Free! Hot Topics from the Blogs: August 2004
It's August and most people have been on vacation, but there's still been enough happening on the blogs.
In this second peer into the blogs of Web development movers and shakers, Ian Blackham aims to highlight recent postings that will stimulate and educate.
Search Engine Optimization and Linking
Well this topic caused a bit of a storm on the blogs recently where misunderstanding and debate raged about the technical content of presentations at a recent Search Engines Strategies conference.
Staying positive though, I found this posting on the Asterisk* blog to be extremely useful and the comments pretty interesting as well. The bottom line being, quality content is the thing you need.
That strikes a chord with a pretty new blogger – Lachlan Hunt – from down-under, whose quality content got him noticed by Dave Shea; a story he recounted on Asterisk*, which got him noticed by me and another link.
What was the subject he wrote on - Fitt's law (and he also got a mention on David Benton's site for that as well), so that's what happens if you write good content and get stuck in – you get noticed.
Editorial Corner
Just another of those items that jangles the tech editor radar – stylistic conventions. Mr Zeldman points out that Wired.com are going with the convention he already used – that of using a lower case when talking about the web, the internet and the net.
Andy Budd has no fear and invites a bunfight with a debate on whether it should be Website or Web Site?
At DMXzone incidentally, we currently have a far looser approach and, with an international audience and contributor base, generally leave articles in the style of the author. Hence you'll come across both English and American spellings within our articles.
I hope you've enjoyed this second foray into blogdom – once again feel free to let me know if you've got any thoughts or comments.
Ian Blackham
Following a degree in Chemistry and a doctorate in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Ian spent several years wrestling with acronyms in industrial R&D (SEM with a side order of EDS, AFM and TEM augmented with a topping of XPS and SIMS and yet more SEM and TEM).
Feeling that he needed a career with more terminology but less high voltages, Ian became a technical/commissioning editor with Wrox Press working on books as diverse as Beg VB Application Development and Professional Java Security. After Wrox's dissolution and a few short term assignments Ian helped out with DMXzone's premium content section.
Ian is a refugee from the industrial Black Country having slipped across the border to live in Birmingham. In his spare time he helps out with the website of a local history society, tries to makes sure he does what his wife Kate says, and worries that the little 'un Noah is already more grown up than he is.