Archive: March, 2007

ed. note: This is a bit of a departure from a normal Metamend blog post but I think many of the readers will appreciate the announcement. I am making it here instead of at the SiteProNews blog because of the more exclusive nature of the readers in this space.
thanks – jim

One of my other positions in the search engine marketing world is executive editor of Jayde-Online’s news publications, www.Sitepronews.com and www.SEO-news.com/. I’ve spent the better part of the last two months helping to coordinate the remake of www.sitepronews.com.

www.Sitepronews.com is being redeveloped into a daily webmaster information and advice magazine featuring content from many of the best writers working in search marketing and drawing from a six year deep archive of expert articles.

Our goal is to present three original feature articles a day and news-feeds from thirty to forty other sources. We also offer one of the largest historic archives of articles written for webmasters and online marketers.

The last session was so much fun we’re gonna do it again. On Friday April 6, the staff of Metamend and crew from Enquisite are getting together in Metamend’s board room for a brain-knocking session on link-building, traffic flow and site design.

Also, here is a link to the PowerPoint presentation from our first BrainJam on Google Personalization.

Contrary to popular belief, revolutions do not generally happen when the exploited masses rise up to take power away from the ruling elites. Revolutions almost never happen that way. Revolts might, but not society changing revolution. The exploited masses have traditionally been too busy struggling to keep themselves and their families alive to bother with the theoretical nonsense political or social upheaval involves. Revolts tend to end quickly. Revolutions change the world.

Revolution does not have to be violent it simply has to substantially alter the old order. We are in the middle of a very real revolution, one best noted by Time Magazine when it named YOU (me too I hope, one hates feeling left out of such things) as its Person of the Year for 2006. To be successful, revolutions tend to require the sustained efforts of the hardworking middle and merchant class. That’s the group made up of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers and merchants of all stripes. If you are reading these words in this blog, you are likely one of those oh-so leisured folks who without even thinking about it all that much, are working to change the world. No wonder YOU were named person of the year.

Did ya’ll feel that? It just happened again. Extremely slight but measurable tremors are recorded under the west coast of North America thousands of times a day. At least once a day, a tremor can be felt on Southern Vancouver Island, Mother Earth’s not so subtle memorandum mori. It’s been that way for centuries.

“Geologic time” and “Internet time” are similar in that both are extreme expressions of how we measure time. Geologic time can be measured in eons. The last extreme (9.0) earthquake in the southern Pacific NW happened around in January 1770, mere moments ago in geologic time. Another one is expected anytime between right now and 2250. Apparently these things can happen around here with some frequency, geologically speaking. Living in what will eventually be the epicenter, we learn to take it seriously but put it out of mind. The daily gentle rumbles are rarely even noticed.

Internet time however, can be measured in months, sometimes in days, and in extreme circumstance, in hours. That’s why seismic rumblings in search should be taken seriously by search and social marketers. Deep underground, the search environment is shifting.