I wanted to ntoe in a separate post to keep in mind that everyone is human and that mistakes are made at some time and place. Even the best at Microsoft can make a simple mistake and accidently indirectly support blackhat SEO tactics in search that are against their own search engine.

At the same time, you will find mistakes happening on the other side with agencies not properly putting in their information properly to run a campaign. Case in point, just a minute or two after I wrote about Microsoft, I noticed the following AdSense image on my website:

The green box highlighted shows that the agency for ABC (or internal team) accidently let this one go out into the public without noticing. Even more hilarious is that Google’s AdSense team did not automatically catch this either! Clicking on the link regardless goes to an error page which apologies to the team who “made” this, but I had to click to see if it went anywhere.

So the moral of the story? Everyone is human and mistakes happen, so be kind, rewind, and apologize when you mess up.

Except for us SEOs, we never make a mistake. *winks*

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My apologies, the comment section was closed unbeknownst to me due to upgrading to the new wordpress 2.5.  The issue has now been resolved.

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I am back from Hawaii after traveling to the big island for the first time and I have to say the most surprising thing about it was how sparsely populated it was in comparison to Maui even. Oddly enough I would put it last on my list of the islands to visit and enjoy compared to Maui, Oahu, and Kauai.

Nonetheless, here are some of my favorite pictures:

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I will be on vacation starting today until next Saturday without a computer, so postings will be light or not at all until then.

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To borrow from Bill Mahr: New Blogroll Rule

• If I cannot comment on your personal blog without having to sign up to some ridiculous service, then off my blogroll you go.

Sorry Jordan and Tony, but off the blogroll it is.

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A short article over at Inc.com about workers struggling with data overloading made me consider whether or not we really are overloaded with data. Personally I believe that there is certainly such a thing as data overload, but that this does not necessarily mean that important information is easier lost in the long-run for everyone.

Yes, there will be some people who will not be able to handle going through so much data or even trying to figure out some scientific method to the madness (think of some kind of SEO Science) and they will lose their competitive advantage over millions of others.

I’m more interested in those that can rise above the short-run problems of too much data and learn how to become better researchers in order to find that needle in a haystack at a faster rate. IE: Rather than just continuing in the normal search pattern as they always have (in order from first to last), but rather through some innovative algorithmic approach that uses some rather magnetic tools to find that special needle.

Sure, you have to be careful about what kind of data you could be losing or missing out on through some abrogated researching, but in the end, I personally believe the benefits outweigh the costs.

Bring on the data I say! Plop it down in front of me and let me work my wonders and find that interesting tidbit of useful information.

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Making some thematic changes that I feel fits better with the site and the topics I want to discuss. Unfortunately this theme was not properly set up for widgets, so the past day or two I have been fiddling with the theme code to get it to work (yeah, php). At this point I have the widgets working, just have to get the code to work properly at this point.

In the meantime, I go fiddle with my brand new gaming computer.

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I promised to put up some pictures, so here you go:

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Here’s a great post (though has some outdated content) for a whole lot of foreign language social bookmarking that will be useful for anyone who loves to post in multiple languages (I’ll be joining the Chinese ones).

Update:

I should link to the two Chinese ones:

• 365Key
• HEMiDEMI

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I always get a kick out of no matter where I go, I am almost always going to run into someone I know from Mission San Jose. I figure it’s some kind of MSJ factor; I’ve studied abroad with an MSJ person, currently work with one from MSJ, and will run into them randomly from airports in St. Louis to a nearby auto bodyshop. Definitely odd stuff, but so’s life.

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