tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62917165773994923112011-10-22T05:46:09.304-07:00On the web and BORED TO TEARS with social media.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706216061361285807noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291716577399492311.post-73070132927592061552011-10-22T05:45:00.000-07:002011-10-22T05:46:09.317-07:00

Well there isnt is there

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I choose to utilize my right to refuse you access to my site.As an internet 6 user you are abiding by no rules and complying with no internet standards. This may mean nothing to you but to us developers we are deeply annoyed by both the existence and use of Internet Explorer 6.You personally are responsible for wasting hours and hours of useful and expensive time. Because of people like you we

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Interesting.In the most competitive of the small UK niches I compete in for Google success, the top keyword is ruled by a website with an almost exclusively paid-for backlink profile.There are a few directory links. And some puff on article sites. But not, as far as I can see, a single organically generated backlink. Not surprising really. The site is merely one of several too expensive

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OK so a client introduced some new products. I put them on its website. So I found a relevant blog with a suggestion form and suggested that the new products were of interest.Wonder of wonders, the blog posted about one of the products.And then to give his post a bit of a boost, the blogger favourited it on the mindless useful comparison shopping site Stylehive. Three other people favourited it,

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Is mainstream media even relevant anymore? Twas funny watching the BBC fall over themselves looking for credible sources - Twitter knew..."What? I mean really what?Twitter didn't fucking know that Michael Jackson had died. Twitter just guessed, like everybody else.And the BBC wasn't falling over themselves. They were doing what they have to do, which is not go on hearsay, but make sure they have

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More grist to my social-media-marketing is useless mill. Two small but significant social media success stories that generated nothing useful at all.First example:This is from a client account on twitter. I tweet occasionally for them, nothing special going on.A week ago, out of the blue came a really nice recommendation from a tweep in the same industry sector who I had followed without knowing

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Just finding it hard to even browse Twitter nowadays.So much self-promotion...I used to find the characters engaging - you know, the ones who swear a lot or the ones who get baity a lot. But once you get to know what they do, well, they just keep on doing it so that gets a bit tedious.And so much naval-gazing. When I checked in this morning, there was lots of this:RT: @kevgibbo: RT @gcharlton:

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Why do I keep clicking on them?I mean those tweets, email suggestions, blog recommendations on Great article - 10 absolutely mind-boggling tips to really make the most out of social media. Or Twitter obviously. In fact Twitter first of all.Haven't I learned by now?Doesn't matter how A-list an author they are written by. Doesn't matter how A-list a blogger they are recommended by.All these

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I don't know why, I just got this thing about Seth Godin.Maybe it's because of the way, in the silly sheeplike hero-worshipping world of the internet, you can just feel the unthinking breathless admiration when people type his name.Maybe it's because his short posts often seem to me to sacrifice meaningful detail in order to create an appearance of punchy innovative thinking.Probably it's a

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You know the feeling you get when you are doing something in Office and that silly helper thing pops up and asks you if you want to do something you dont't? I mean that Microsoft just stoppit feeling, stop thinking you know what I want because you just don't.Well, that's the feeling I just got from Google.I was searching for the Biblio Chair.First I searched without quotes. Got Digg and some

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Yes I know this blog is supposed to be about the middle age and families and stuff.But my irritation at the sheep-like search engine optimisation community is just too powerful to resist this opportunity to give my fingers free reign at the keyboard.It's just this rankings are dead thing. People have been saying it for a while. But Bruce Clay made a splash about it recently (splash link is to a

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Been a long time...And reading my last post, I just cant believe how much my feelings have swung.I'm not talking hormonal fluctuations, just the normal passing of time and what it does with the things that happen to us.Last post - just a few months ago - I couldn't think about daughter 1 and her impending departure to uni without flashbacks to her childhood and tears welling in my eyes. Maternal

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Ok so tomorrow is now today and it's time for something terrific.Only there isn't anything.Instead, there is only sadness.I just read a fantastic post by a mother of four looking back at the hope and love she felt 32 years ago when her first child was born and at how things turned out differently but also the same.That post really struck a chord with me.Daughter 1 is due to leave for university

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I read the other day that if you don't write on your blog for a while, you should'nt apologise, you shouldn't even mention it. You should just set to writing some really cracking content so that your readers (who?) will just be grateful that you're back.Hmmm cracking content. OK I'm lighting a cigarette (horrified intake of breath) and thinking.More news from the kids' exam front? Not cracking.

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Today, I suddenly got worried that daughter 1 was taking drugs.I know she has taken drugs, both weed (which is what you have to call it now) and cocaine. But not much, I have always believed. It's the boys in her group who mainly take the drugs and most of her girlfriends don't. They drink instead, but that's another story.Today though, I wondered if drugs were behind her recent inability to do

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Today:Took daughter 1 to school (late) because she has an A level. She rung me as I was half way home to tell me she had left her glasses in the car and I had to take them all the way back to school and deliver them in the office because it was too much of a trek for her to walk to meet me.Talked to plumber about new shower and shower door.Did tiny bit of workPicked up son 1 from his A/S level

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They think its them who want to get away from us. Kids that is. Actually, it's the other way around.I long for peace, that light airy feel of NOBODY AT ALL being in the house with me. Instead, I got both sons. Son 1 on study leave; son 2 ill. That's ill as in the strange mysterious illnesses that overwhelm at 8.00am and magically clear up by 10.00am ready for a long hard day on the

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Older son now on study leave. He got up at 11.00am despite numerous wake up calls. Now downstairs probably engaged in his project of reading Wikipedia from beginning to end. Or playing Championship Manager.Yesterday, he took an old computer apart. What for? No reason. Just painstakingly took it to bits. Each time he extricated a bit, he brought it up to me proudly:"This is a motherboard"."Here's

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1045am. Older daughter not in school but in bed. She isn't on study leave yet but will be from next week as her A levels begin in a few weeks. But the holiday spirit in which my children take study leave seeems to have set in early.Yesterday, older son came in from school cheering and hitting high fives and saying "yessssssssssss". Why? Because he is now on study leave (his A/Ss start today) so

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Started late but did A LOT.You know how it is - sometimes you're all prepared, got hours stretching ahead of you. Yet somehow the hours pass and nothing gets accomplished.Other times, not many hours but oh so productive.Today was one of the latter days. Did the whole blog design and quite like it. What's more, my super-critical oldest daughter liked it too.Yaay!

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Bad start to the day today. Got up at 11.20. Wont be able to get much work in before children get home. Conversely, will be able to stay up later and do work after they have gone to bed.Currently working on a design for a soon-to-be-blog for my husband's company. Hate doing designs because I'm not very good at them. But husband wont pay any more to the designer. He feels the £600 he has already

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My first post. The very first one.So let me introduce myself. My name is Sarah, I live in London in a typically tall London house with my husband and dog and four teenage children.My life is hectic - what with the washing and cooking and the work too. There are never enough hours in the day.I have friends but I rarely see them. That suits me fine on a day to day basis. Most evenings I'm tired,

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