Archive : Cool stuff

Back at the end of 2009, I became aware of an awesome site called Sparkapolooza started by my chums Jo and Laura. Sparkapolooza is about releasing your creative juices with a new brief posted every two weeks. Users can respond in whatever creative style they like; a photo, story, painting poem, yoga...

Day after day I wade through a stack of  Tweets and Facebook links that supposedly recommend ‘cool sites’ – hoping to find something mind blowing. And after endless pictures of LOL cats, top ten guides to ‘yawn’ and a whole lot of waffle I discovered The Oatmeal. If you...

Learn How Google Works: in Gory Detail Brilliant map, graphic type thingy from PPC Blog

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply  alternative meanings for common words. The winners  are: 1. Coffee (n.): the person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted (adj.): appalled over how ...

Apparently my site is worth $904 – bargain. Find out what yours is worth via eSiteStats.

A list of the top 500 registered domains (∗.example.com) ranked by the number of linking root domains. This data is sourced from 46+ million domains and 36+ billion pages. My site comes in at 278 (wishful thinking). http://www.seomoz.org/top500

QDOS measures your internet status and helps you manage your online profile. To calculate your internet status, QDOS measures your digital footprint – how active, popular and impactful you are online. I worked with QDOS on Copy and SEO back in 2008.