Nine By Fox

  • Don’t Panic: No, Everyone Didn’t Just Unsubscribe From The Internet

    My feedburner numbers went down by more than half overnight. I considered spending the day crying in a corner, feeling abandoned and alone, wondering where it all went wrong, but first I thought I’d check a few other sites. Their…

  • Wordze: Because The Internet Must Have Run Out Of Domain Names Other Than Variations Of Mine

    I notice that G-Man’s domain has expired. No worries though. He doesn’t really need that one anymore, because he’s got mine! (ETA: softplus points out that this actually redirects through a Wordze affiliate, so I was right below when I…

  • Google! Tell Them Geographic Data!

    I just did a post at Search Engine Land about the most awesomest feature ever of Google’s Webmaster Tools. You can now tell them the geographic location of your site. Check it out.

  • Want To Buy A House in Redmond Washington?

    I’m selling one! It’s a great experiment for me, because I’ve implemented a redirect from a page on this site (with Google Analytics) to the real estate agent’s page and am going to see what links get the most traffic.…

  • ‘Cause, with the ziti

    If it’s Tuesday, it must be Buffy night. Tonight, we’re watching one of my all-time favorite episodes, The Dark Age. It includes this classic exchange: Willow: I’m in Florence, Italy. I’ve rented a scooter that’s parked outside, and I’m in…

  • Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Twitter

    I’m usually really good about keeping up on what’s going in in the world around me through my RSS feeds. Lately though, with all the travel and work and sitting on the balcony watching the seals, I’ve been getting behind…

  • Twitter By Phone, Now With Default Scoble

    What’s not to love about Twitter? It’s nowhere near the commitment of a blog. You don’t have to dodge people chucking books and sheep at your head like you do with Facebook, and it captures the brilliant laziness of a…

  • Time, Social Media, Crowdsourcing, Being Cranky, and Shiny Things

    The trouble with time is that there’s just not enough of it. I would work on a time generation device except that, well… I just don’t have time. If We’re Drinking Martinis, Surely We’re Not That Geeky. Right? Particularly in…

  • Email Bankruptcy Revisited

    USA Today ran an article on Friday that mentioned my conflicted relationship with email that ultimately caused me to declare email bankruptcy. My friends, reminded of my woes, immediately reached out to support me. If only everyone had friends like…

  • How To Search

    The web is a really big place. It even includes pages about more than one person named “Vanessa”. While you don’t want to write an entire essay in your search query, the more specific you are, the better the search…