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It is becoming increasingly important to manage your reputation because reputations are the true currency of the internet. If your reputation is poor, you won’t sell products, you won’t easily establish personal relationships, and you won’t be able to get a job. What other people say about you is far more important than what you […]

I’m happy to announce the launch of Found and Lost:
“A controversial video by John S. Rhodes revealing the future of search, why failure drives success for Google and Yahoo, and how search ultimately molds the way we act, feel and think.”
The entire video report is nearly 4 hours long and represents my thinking on the […]

(Reference: Part I, Part II)
Here’s my final posting (Part III) on the topic of paying for blog comments, at least for now. I’ll keep it short and sweet.
I think that one of the best ways to pay back others is to continue writing great content. That is, make your content worthy of great […]

Here’s the story. Dave Child has created some great cheat sheets (e.g., World of Warcraft, CSS and mod_rewrite). The cheat sheets are totally free. Kevin Futter found out that someone was selling the cheat sheets on eBay, without permission. Ouch.
Rather than simply fire off invectives, I thought about this for a few minutes. […]

PART ONE
I have to say that my expectations for Google are extremely high. They get higher all the time. Further, my technical expectations are through the roof. I’m saying that I expect flawless execution, even with beta products.
Am I being fair? Probably not. But folks, isn’t Google supposed to be wonderful? I believe that […]

Yesterday I discussed how to pay for blog comments. My answer was pretty simple. If people post comments on your blog, and they also have a blog or forum, visit their site and post comments.
In my case, I promised to write three (!) blog postings for every posting on WebWord. That seemed pretty fair […]

Puzzle: How can I reward people who post comments on WebWord? This matters because I feel that the value of WebWord drammatically increases when people comment. I almost always learn something new from people dropping comments here. How do I return the favor without literally spending money?
Here’s my answer…
If you have posted a comment on […]

I’m in a hotel room that is fine; plenty of lights, clean bathroom, big bed. It even has a working iron, free high speed internet access, and a big TV.
What this room lacks, which most rooms lack, is good access to electricity. There is some sort of contraption under the desk in a hard […]

1. Team members can set up social bookmarking pages for personal and professional access. Think of this as a way to offer everyone asynchronous collaboration. Or, think of this as a way to store “memories” of pages, including tags and other reference material.
2. Social bookmarks can allow people to find each other. Think of this […]

Here’s some of the sales and advertising language used by the Marriott Vacation Club:
“Put the lid on a significant family expense.”
(Protect your loved ones; appeal to fear.)
“Your ownership helps hedge against vacation inflation.”
(Act now or you’ll suffer.)
“Over the course of a lifetime, you’ll pay increasingly higher room rates and you’ll get less for your […]

Elizabeth F. Loftus and many other researchers have explained false memories, which are memories for events that didn’t happen. False memories are also classified as distortions of factual events.
There’s some really cool research that roughly goes like this. Different groups of people are shown the exact same picture of an automobile accident. After they […]