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• The wonders of Claude Code and the Wayback Machine

  Redesigning this site with Claude Code sent me digging through the Wayback Machine for the things I wrote when I was younger and thought I'd lost.

• A trip down memory lane with ChatGPT

  Asking ChatGPT's expanded memory feature to describe me based on all of our chats, again and again.

• A new year, a new beginning

  After a brutal 2023, three projects for the year ahead: going independent, writing again, and learning everything about AI.

• An SEO taco a day keeps disasters away

  I made tacos with family the other day and couldn't help thinking about the 'SEO implications'.

• Deserving SEO

  When the question comes - 'Hey, I Googled this and we didn't come up?' What's the issue?

• Coding and SEO

  SEO never existed without code. Why explore one but not the other?

• Transparency on pricing

  How much money are your salespeople wasting?

• To test or not to test

  A thought on a/b testing and the drive to gain insights from users.

• Meditation and tech

  Some thoughts on using daily meditation to keep grounded from the influence of tech.

• Tech nostalgia

  Random access memories from the vault of tech from my youth.

• The right to be forgotten

  A European court says people have the right to be forgotten by search engines. Privacy matters, but this isn't privacy.

• A rush of Foursquare check-ins, a swarm of disappointment

  Just as I got back into Foursquare and was closing in on a mayorship, the freeze before the Swarm happened.

• Google Consumer Surveys: a test I couldn't resist

  I spent $25 asking 1,000 people whether Android or iOS is better, just to see what Google Consumer Surveys would do with it.

• Augmented reality game from Google Niantic Labs

  Google's Niantic Labs launches Ingress, an augmented reality game for Android, in closed beta.

• Did the government get your Google user data?

  Google's Transparency Report shows government requests for user data on the rise. What's missing is a button that tells you if yours was handed over.

• Silver light

  I found this silver light.

• An email from Google

  Vint Cerf asks me to finish the sentence "The Internet is the power to ___."

• The biggest Battlefield in the Modern Warfare of gaming

  Battlefield 3 versus Modern Warfare 3: who's winning the search war ahead of the fall 2011 launch season?

• Gamification

  Watching the buzz grow around gamification, and why great storytelling still matters more than levelling up.

• Why blog?

  Why not? A journalist turned communications person finally gives himself a place to post.