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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. :)

Published by Gregg Hilferding on August 15th, 2008 at 12:33 pm. Filed under Administrative, NoiseNo Comments

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

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:

Custom T-shirt Design #29

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. :)

Published by Gregg Hilferding on January 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pm. Filed under Administrative, Noise, Signal1 Comment

Clearing My Plate

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!).

Published by Gregg Hilferding on January 17th, 2007 at 12:36 pm. Filed under Administrative, Signal1 Comment

Pubcon 2006 Vegas Schedule

The sessions I plan on attending are shown below. You can find the original (and regularly updated) session grid here.

Tuesday November 14

Continental Breakfast
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

Wednesday November 15

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

Thursday November 16

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

November 17

1:30p-whenever Special Event
PubCon, The Classic 1:30p-4:30p

Published by Gregg Hilferding on November 10th, 2006 at 5:30 pm. Filed under Administrative, WebmasterNo Comments