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Thursday 19 February, 2009 at 12:39 pm / 0 comment

Social Network? More like Social Not-work

Very simply – Social media as a concept is muddied and amorphous. Obviously, we’ve already seen a stampede of hip advertisers and cynical brands into those spaces; testing ‘messages’, ad models, cut through and viral activity. As with every other media channel, barriers to entry creep lower and lower allowing far too many people to [...]

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Wednesday 28 January, 2009 at 8:26 pm / 1 comment

Forgot Django admin password? Reset it on the command line.

Just a quick post. Was just rerouting some of my django stuff so I can hang a test site that I was working on from a new domain and realised that I’d forgotten my admin password doh! So instead of farting around hashing a replacement and putting it in the database I thought I’d have [...]

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Thursday 22 January, 2009 at 10:02 pm / 0 comment

Zimbabwe economic crisis: What is going on?

Some of you may know I was lucky enough to spend part of my childhood growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe.  The time I enjoyed there has made me even more angry about the decline of the country that was once known as the ‘bread basket of Africa’. This is a whistlestop tour, just to pull [...]

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Thursday 22 January, 2009 at 8:20 pm / 1 comment

SEO and PPC skillsets: A further fun-alysis

I really enjoyed a post by Kate Morris on New Edge Media regarding the skillsets of PPC and SEO Managers, where they meet and where they differ. I won’t go over that again but it did get me wistfully thinking about how much fun I’ve had acquiring these skills and sent me off on a [...]

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Friday 05 December, 2008 at 12:11 am / 3 comments

Pagination with javascript for SEO, elegant or wrong?

One of the challenges facing enterprise-level SEO is the general specification for large sites. By that I mean rules to make sure we’re not wasting links by needlessly diluting the authority they bring; or contradicting the content focus that made our site and its structure profoundly relevant from the start. One that cropped up recently [...]

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