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During a server upgrade a couple months back I managed to forget to import the mysql data for this site. Whoops. :/
Look for a few changes coming to this area. :)
During a server upgrade a couple months back I managed to forget to import the mysql data for this site. Whoops. :/
Look for a few changes coming to this area. :)
Anyone who reads this blog (hi mom!) has noticed a particular lack of, well, blog entries. This is in part to a massive project I've been working on at work. Because of that project, I intentionally blocked my attention from wandering to some of the time sinks I had previously found so worthwhile (hi google reader! where ya been iconbuffet?).
Thankfully though, I have some good news. With the aid of that massive project, I can even tell you in a t-shirt:
If you click that t-shirt, you'll be taken to the first site that is using the technology I've been putting together between the rest of my responsibilities at work. To put it in a nutshell, T-shirts.Dyetub.com lets people make and share custom t-shirt designs.
T-shirts are pretty freakin' cool, so a website where you can design your own should be pretty freakin' cool, too. Of course, there are other sites out there where you can design a t-shirt but they want you to actually buy the shirt, not just show off your neat idea to your friends. So things like hotlinking are actively discouraged instead of embraced.
If you've ever had an idea for a t-shirt, go make it. Not sure how? Watch a quick movie to learn how. And be sure to let me know how it goes for you. :)
After a hectic holiday break and a whirlwind first three weeks of the new year, I've finally completed my rough schedule for an upcoming project. This project (details to be revealed as they become available) will take at least through September of this year and will probably not be publicly available until the end of the year.
To focus my efforts I am temporarily suspending my tracking of all things industry-related. I've also moved all my RSS feed subscriptions from Safari to Google Reader (thanks to the excellent Automator script for exporting Safari RSS feeds to an OPML file!).
The sessions I plan on attending are shown below. You can find the original (and regularly updated) session grid here.
Tuesday November 14 |
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| Continental Breakfast |
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| 08:45a 9:00a | Conference Introduction by Brett Tabke |
| 09:00a 10:00a | WebmasterWorld Pubcon Kickoff Keynote Address - Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki moderator: Brett Tabke |
| 10:15a 11:30a | Feeds, Blogs, News, and Social Search Owen Byrne, Rick Klau, Chris Tolles, Niall Kennedy moderator: Brett Tabke |
| 11:35a 12:50p | Link Development and Linking Optimization Rae Hoffman, Eric Ward, Roger Montti, Joel Lesser |
| 12:50p 1:30p | Lunch |
| 1:30p 2:45p | Feeding the Engines - Writing Copy Heather Lloyd-Martin, Jennifer Slegg, Ted Ulle, Byron White moderator: Ted Ulle |
| 2:45p 4:00p | Ad and Landing Page Site Reviews Seth Wilde, Kevin Lee, Lily Chiu, Neil Patel, Brad Geddes moderator: Christine Churchill |
| 4:00p 5:00p | Special Afternoon Keynote by Jon S Von Tetzchner Jon S. von Tetzchner moderator: Brett Tabke |
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Wednesday November 15 |
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| 09:00a 10:00a | New Age of Web Advertising Keynote by John Battelle John Battelle moderator: Brett Tabke |
| 10:00a | 10:00am: Exhibit Hall Opens |
| 10:15a 11:30a | International and Euro Optimization Michael Bonfils, Barry Lloyd, Dixon Jones, Jessica L Bowman moderator: Christine Churchill |
| 11:35a 12:50p | Search Blog and Reporter Forum Michael McDonald, Barry Schwartz, Andy Beal, Lee Odden, Rand Fishkin moderator: Todd Friesen |
| 12:50p 1:50p | Lunch |
| 1:30p 3:10p | Duplicate Content Issues Tim Converse, Bill Slawski, Amanda Watlington, Google Representative moderator: Joe Laratro |
| 3:30p 5:00p | Super Session : Search and Research on a Rail Gordon Hotchkiss, Tom Hughes, Glenn Alsup, Dana Todd moderator: Brett Tabke |
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Thursday November 16 |
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| 09:00a 10:00a | Special Guest Keynote - Danny Sullivan Danny Sullivan moderator: Brett Tabke |
| 10:15a 11:30a | Press and Public Relation Campaigns Robin Liss, Lee Odden, Greg Jarboe, David McInnis moderator: Justin Sanger |
| 11:35a 12:50p | Viral and WOMM Marketing Management Rand Fishkin, Louise Rijk, Aaron Wall, Lawrence Coburn moderator: Todd Friesen |
| 12:50p 1:50p | Lunch |
| 1:30p 3:10p | Interactive Site Reviews and SERP Quality Control Forum Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer, Greg Boser, Todd Friesen, Danny Sullivan moderator: Jake Baillie |
| 3:30p 5:00p | Super Session : Search Engines and Webmasters - aka: The Search Engine Smack Down Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer, Rahul Lahiri, Eytan Seidman moderator: Brett Tabke |
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November 17 |
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| 1:30p-whenever | Special Event PubCon, The Classic 1:30p-4:30p |