One might think that I may be a loud, outspoken type of personality. You would be wrong. I am extremely quiet, especially in larger groups.

Even though I write a ton all over the web, when it comes to talking - I don't do much of it. Yes, I do speak at conferences and seminars. But when it comes to group conversations, I normally take the back seat. I often enjoy listening, and then speaking when I have something good to say.

I used to love listening to speakers who would say so much in just a single line. You know the type. There are those that will repeat the same message over and over again in a 30 minute speech. And there are those that will say 30 messages in a single speech. I much prefer listening to the speaker who says 30 messages in a single speech then listening to a speaker who gives one message in a single speech.

There was one speaker I remember specifically. Every single line was a message in itself. He said a line, and that alone could have been a 30 minute discussion. But he stopped there and then moved on to his next line. Yes, the next line could have been a 30 minute discussion.

Back to being quiet. There is this concept in Judaism (I can be wrong, if so, Israel Brother, please comment).... I think it goes... We are only given so many words in our life time. The more you talk, the less time you got. I don't think it is literal. But there is 100% value in that statement. I think it has to do with the value of listening what others are saying and then only speaking afterwards.

I am being distracted left and right from this post, so I am cutting it short. Which is kinda fitting, i.e. less words. ;-)

Update: I should clarify. I have nothing against loud people, I am just explaining that I am not loud. That is just not my personality. Nothing is wrong with loud people.

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Dare I admit it? In the house chore department, I got it easy.

Why admit it now? Well, this weekend, was the last two-days of Passover. We had my in-laws and family over for the full two-days. My wife also invited over my parents, my sister and kids and my brother and kids for a Sunday lunch meal (they are all in walking distance - well, not parents, but they were at my sister).

Preparing a house to house, room, clean, feed, etc nine people is a chore. I barely did anything myself to help. I did my part by staying out of the kitchen and staying out of my wife's way. I believe she had help from her family, but I am not sure how much help. In any event, I, for the most part, stayed out of the way.

I did have a few things to take care of, such as the lighting (which I messed up on), timers for certain appliances (which worked for the most part) and fixing some things prior to the holiday. But I had no say on food, rooms, bedding, cleaning, etc. All I did was go to work and stay out of the way. In fact, I rarely ever do the wash, clean the floors, make any food or anything - things magically get done some how.

My wife doesn't like when I talk about her here, but I do need to say that she did a wonderful job this holiday!

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Since I was sick most the week, I figured maybe I'll just pick up the routine blogging next week.... I started back at the other blogs, but maybe ill take a holiday for this blog...

So see you Monday and happy last days of Passover!

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So I have been sick since Saturday night/Sunday morning. I typically get sick on holidays or weekends, not sure why - but normally when I get really sick, it happens on days I am off anyway. Sometimes, these sicknesses linger into work days - I hate when that happens.

Monday, I was off for Passover. Tuesday, I was hoping to come back, but I was too sick. My wife made me go to the doctor - who happens to be in the same building as my office, so before and after the doctor visit, I spent some time in the office (with fever). In fact, I actually interviewed a new PHP candidate for a job, in person.

Today, I think my fever is beginning to break. I got into the office after 10am. I am absolutely exhausted already. What is with these flus that they not only kick you when your sick, but linger on and on with being weak days after?

I hope I get back to 100% (if I was ever a 100%) soon. Not being able to be quick quick quick, is really bothersome.

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I am sick, sorry for lack of posts around the web.

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Remember my post from a several months back named I'm Not Nice: Cold Calls From India Programmers?

Well, I am so much worse now. Here is my new scenario:

(1) Phone Rings
(2) I say, "Hello"
(3) There is a three second delay...
(4) "Hello, my name is Joe," is heard in an Indian accent from far away (i.e. VOIP line).
(5) I said, "I assume you are looking for us to outsource to you?"
(6) There is a three second delay...
(7) "Yes."
(8) I say, "Not interested, Goodbye."

I don't even have patience to wait for the person to tell me what they do. I ask them straight out...

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I was at the bank today, depositing a few checks - like I do a few times per week and I noticed a promotion for "Remote Check Deposit." A way to deposit money from your computer, without having to go into the bank!

I have heard about this mysterious but yet fascinating invention before, but blew it off as a folks tale. ;-)

Seriously, many banks now offer this to companies. I go to the bank a few times a week, in fact, I send my partner to go also, I send my wife, and also, I often send my mother. I am sometimes too busy to go, but the funds need to be deposited to keep the business operating. Today, I went and I saw the promo for Remote Check Deposit.

The teller wrote down the branch manager's name and telephone number, so I can get more information. The second I got back into my office, I called the branch manager. He looked up my account and said I qualify and might be able to get the scanner for free, plus a reduction in the monthly fee.

He then gave me the fees without any reduction and promised to call me back with my rates. Here are the fees without any reduction:

• $866 for the scanner - one time fee
• $125 per month for the service
• $0.09 per check

The 9 cents per check is fine with me but the $125 per month is crazy, at least for my business. Let's do some math...

If I go to the bank 3 times per week, let's say there are 45 weeks I go to the bank (52 weeks per year). 135 bank runs per year. Now, if each bank run costs me more than $12 or so, then it makes sense for me to buy this service, at the retail cost. Let's say, it takes me 15 minutes to do a bank run and I am worth $300 per hour (am I?), then the 15 minutes costs me $75? So I would be saving $63 per run by getting this device.

See why they call this fuzzy math? In reality, I don't think it is worth $125 per month for me to be that lazy. In fact, why are they charging me for this? Think of the amount of money they can save by having businesses process their own deposits and not have them come in and take up the teller's time? One day, this service will likely be free - it just makes sense. How much would I pay for it? I don't even know if I would pay $30 per month for it - just doesn't seem worth it and I do need to see the sunlight on some days.

How much would you pay for this service?

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I have become a stickler for being on time for scheduled business calls. I really really get annoyed when I have a scheduled call for a certain time and that person is not around for the call, when we scheduled it.

There are two cases of these calls.

(1) The person is suppose to call you and calls you an hour later or never calls. When this happens, I always want to tell the person - we had a call scheduled for X and I cannot talk now. But often, I stop what I am doing and take the call anyway. But it really makes for a bad impression.

(2) I am suppose to call the person and he/she doesn't answer when I call. When this happens, I always leave a voicemail saying, it is X time and we had a schedule phone call. I hope everything is okay. Please call me back at ###-###-###, thank you. Again, leaves a bad impression and really bothers me.

I am an extremely punctual individual about most things. I am the type to be 15 minutes early to everything. I call people exactly on the dot, when scheduled. I actually often make sure to clean my plate before expecting a phone call or meeting. Otherwise, I might be distracted during the call.

In addition, I am much more in favor of scheduling phone calls as opposed to just calling "whenever." It allows me to devote the necessary attention to whom I am speaking with. Otherwise, I can be involved in 5 different things and one of those five things can get lost in the pile (although that rarely happens, I hope).

Of course, that is my nature and not everyone has this type of mentality. What type of person are you? More laid back or not? Here is a poll:

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Sorry for lack of posts, been a very busy day. Typically I get a chance to post here, but I honestly didn't have any time yet.

It is 1:15 (EST), been up since about 5:30am and the only thing I have eaten all day were two Granola bars (which I just ate).

Back to work...

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I learned a while ago that I cannot expect my employees to work as hard as I do for my company. It is my company and the more I put into, hopefully the more I get out of it. But in reality, hard work does not always pay off (don't tell your kids).

But I don't expect my employees to work as hard as I do. I do expect them to work hard and they do. But I don't expect them to work as hard as I do. I figure, you set an example and hopefully it encourages them to work harder. I do have some employees that work incredibly hard, maybe two that work as hard as I do. Since they read this blog (yes, I know you read) I won't name names...

BUT... I do expect that if I work for someone they work as hard as I do. I expect that. If it is your business, you should care more about your business then I do. Sometimes, be it with clients or other work, I get the feeling that I care more about their business then they do. That bugs me, it really does. Why should I work my brains out and pick up the pieces when they care less than I do?

Anyone ever feel that way?

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I keep trying to upload images to Flickr from iPhoto via FlickrExport but I get "Error 2 in photos.upload.checkTickets."

Seems like is it on Flickr's side. A Flickr help post has a message from staff on this issue:

Hi folks -

This morning we lost a part of Farm1, and as a side-effect we've stalled on the uploads. We're working on the problem right now, and we're hopefully going to get it sorted out ASAP.

Sorry about this!

Hope it is fixed soon, got to show you guys something. :)

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It has been light in the mornings at 5:45am, when I get out of the house. But that is going to change Sunday, when we change the clocks.

We spring forward.

So 5:45am will be like 4:45am - that always confuses me. :)

Back to darkness for a while, technically until late April, when the sun rises at 5:50ish.

Ughh, hate dark mornings.

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I sign a lot of papers, I hate papers, but I sign them anyway. Checks, IRS forms, contracts, and so on.

Today, I was asked to email a copy of my signature to be used on the SphinnCon Israel handout. So I sent over one that I use on my proposal emails and I then scanned in a few others.

My signature really stinks! At least I think so. Typically, I will just sign my last name or part of my last name, cause I am in a rush. When trying to sign my whole name, it takes too long and I feel it comes out weird.

I am not artist, but is there a way to teach oneself to have a pretty looking signature that takes little time to sign?

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I was devastated when the Dockers Mobile Pant was discontinued. This pant rocks. It has so many hidden pockets, that it makes me comfortable holding my gadgets - which now really only consists of an iPhone.

Places like JC Pennies and other stores do still sell some, so I am still in luck.

Why do these pants rock? Like I said, the Hidden Pockets are what make it awesome. Pockets include:

- It has 7 pockets that I am aware of
- 3 Pockets are hidden
- In each main front pocket, there is a hidden zipper pocket behind it (great for wallet or change)
- On the side knee, there is a hidden pocket (great for a cell phone)
- Then you have the normal pockets

No belt clips required!

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I have this thing where I don't like too much stuff in my pockets and I hate things clipped to my belt. One technique of keeping your pocket's spacious is to de-clutter your keychain to the bare essentials.

The picture above, is a picture of my current keychain with items I recently removed.

Now, all I have on my keychain are keys for:

• My wireless car key
• My wife's car, yea I need it often
• My house's front door
• My home's side door
• My office's mailbox key
• My safe
• My office wireless key

The most useful key by far is my office key. It opens the building's front and back doors, it opens my office's main door and all the doors inside my office and even the closets. Access control controls, yes, sometimes access control can go very wrong but most of the time it rocks.

My wireless car key also is cool, but I wish it took up less space. Why does it have to be so big? Why does my wife's car keys have to be so big?

What did I remove from my keys?

• I no longer have a key chain (those silver things in the picture, free from Lexus)
• I no longer carry a pathmark card, I never go (I got a good wife)
• Office bathroom key, it is almost always open
• Physical building key

I may decide to drop even more keys. I don't really need my house keys, I go through the garage door (which is programmed to open in my car). I don't really need the safe key at all times. I don't really need the office mailbox key at all times also. But I also think I may need them at important times....

Keep it de-cluttered!

How do you manage your keychain?

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Michael Gray tagged me on What Websites and Programs Do You Use to Get Things Done. So, I thought I share with you the most uses sites and programs I use on a daily basis.

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(1) I couldn't do what I did without a browser. I live and die by my browser. My preferred browser is Apple Safari. It is super quick, has built in spell check, grammar check, and dictionary. It just runs smoothly for me and it doesn't get bloated like Firefox. Don't get me wrong, I also use Firefox for specific reasons, but Safari is my core browser.

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(2) RustyBudget is my key web application through out my blogging day. It is the place I organize all the topics from this blog, for the Search Engine Roundtable and where all the authors manage the topics at Search Engine Land. Heck, we even use it to manage our crazy conference schedules. I know, I built this application, but I built it around my needs and it is honestly the most powerful tool I use each day for my blogging needs.

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(3) Google Reader is where I get 95% of my news information from for Search Engine Land. I subscribe to like a billion sources and news searches, and Google Reader makes it possible for me to digest so much information. I go to Google Reader probably 50 to 100 times per day on both my laptop and iPhone. It is one of the most used applications on my browser.

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(4) Apple Mail, my email client. I get several hundred emails per day and reply to hundreds. Without my email client and all the rules I set up for it, I would be lost. I am a nut when it comes to my inbox. I call it email OCD and that is exactly what I have. Between the blogging emails, work emails, personal emails and spam - I got plenty to keep me busy.

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(5) Adium X, my instant messenger client. I use AIM, Gmail and Yahoo Messenger and it is the way I stay in touch with some clients, SEO buddies, blogging colleagues, family and even employees. Yes, I am often too lazy to walk into the next room to say something and Ill just IM them instead. IM is simply an awesome collaboration tool.

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(6) Inquisitor X, I did a blog post on this in the past. It basically has my quick ways to find most the information I may search on throughout the day. That includes finding stories I wrote about at this blog, or at Search Engine Roundtable or Search Engine Land or Google, Flickr, Yahoo, News, and so on. It saves me a few seconds each time I use it, and I really appreciate that.

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(7) Flickr. What can I say about Flickr. It is the place I keep, organize and share all my photos. I use it mostly for blogging, sometimes for work, and also for family. I love how it works, I love the social features, I love the stats and new editing features. I love Flickr. It integrates will with a plugin, in iPhoto. It helps me do my job every day.

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(8) Twitterific helps me manage all my Twitter conversations. Without it, I doubt I would use Twitter all that often. It is this little application that floats in a corner of my screen, where I watch the various Twits that go by. I am sure I miss many, but it helps me spot some.

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(9) iTunes is on at my desk all day. Between all the people in my office, I can probably listen to a new song every day for several months without any duplication. But honestly, when it comes to music, I love duplication. I enjoy my Neil Young, my Led Zeppelin, a bit of Rush, Jimmy Buffet, Bob Dylan, Satriani, and so on. It helps the day be a little more enjoyable, not that I need a more enjoyable day. :)

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(10) Last but not least, 100% not least, is my iPhone. I love my iPhone. Email, the web as it should be, phone, text messaging, stocks, weather, youtube, and an iPod all in one. The usability of the phone. The coolness of the phone. I just love it.

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I think that covers the core ten programs and web sites I use on an average day.

Other programs or sites I use all the time but didn't have time to highlight include Movable Type, dozens of forums, custom built RB software to manage RB stuff (its huge and powerful), QuickBooks, Quicken, Snak, Word, Excel, iCal, iPhoto, Photoshop, TextEdit, BBEdit, Transmit FTP, Parallels Desktop, SuperDuper and more.

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I am so used to a crazy busy schedule that these next two weeks make me want to jump out of my skin.

Yesterday, I set my alarm clock to wake up at 7:30, two hours later than the norm. But I was up at 5:45 and couldn't go back to sleep. So I got up closer to 7 and go to work at 8am. 8am is crazy late for me to get to work. I left work at about 2pm yesterday, because there was nothing to do.

Like last year, I have a list of year end items to take care of. Some of those are already done, but most can't be done until January 1st, which I can do all in one day.

So I sit here, bored out of my mind. Thinking, maybe I should write a long post that might help people or maybe those people won't read it because they are enjoying their time off.

The search world and the business world are both so slow. In fact, today and yesterday were the first days I set the Facebook application to a "Freezing" status, because search news is basically ice cold now.

One more week of this... I guess I will survive.

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I was just about to call a doctor for being congested since October 3rd, but it has cleared up finally.

I believe it was this past Thursday, the 15th, about 1.5 months after I first became congested. I have been mostly clear via my nose since then.

I was afraid to say anything, in fear of bringing the congestion back. But it seems to have subsided.

My stomach is still a bit weak from something that hit me Sunday night, but I am 95% back to normal with that. I hope to play ball tonight, but we will see. I ate something I shouldn't of last night, so I have yet to eat this morning and I have been awake since 5:40am... Maybe Ill eat a few snakes.

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Most people, from what I hear, use the snooze button on their alarm clock. Not me.

If I don't wake up minutes before the alarm then when it goes off, I get up.

When I was a kid, I always kept my alarm clock on the other side of the room. It forced me to get up and turn it off. Once I was up, I did not go back to sleep. Now, even though my alarm clock is right next to my bed, I still get up on the first sign of an alarm.

If I snoozed, I would be incredibly late for everything, so snoozing doesn't work with my Out The Door In 10 Minutes routine...

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Seriously, my iPhone is my light source when it is dark.

In the early AM, when I leave the house and there is no light, I use it to show me my way. It is just so dark outside and no light at all is in the house. I can turn on some lights, but I don't want to disturb my sleeping wife (I am so nice).

So instead of turning on a light when I need to walk down the stairs, I use my iPhone to light my path.

I can't tell you how I am looking forward to switching the clocks tomorrow night. It is wayyyy toooo dark in the mornings.

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Figure I give a public health update.

• I am still congested after almost a month, but I feel like it is getting better...
• My wrist feels somewhat better, but it hurt again last night after sawing some wood and then running to play basketball. It is hard shooting a ball, when you have that pain.
• My right foot has been hurting after playing ball, but I feel like that will go away soon.
• My left big toe kind of hurts also
• I still see a floater

I think that is about it. That is my current health update. Other than that, I am tired - but who isn't?

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Way too often, I get a phone call from someone who has an Indian accent. This person typically says, "May I please speak with your CIO?"

I just got a call from someone who called with that accent and said:

"Can I speak with your head of IT or your CIO?"

I was short on time and responded, "No."

He then began explaining that he was from a programming company in India and they can do work cheaper for us. He asked, "Would you be interested?" I said, "No."

VOIP is great but...

I am not nice, but...

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I just love watching these two company's stocks move:

52 Week Low: $437.00

52 Week Low: $76.77

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That is my garbage can in my office. I feel so sick.

I guess it started last night some time. But now I feel bad. Can't stop sneezing, I feel tired, I feel hot, a bit nauseous, errr.

I got in late this morning because of long services, it put me an hour behind. Then I struggled to focus on researching for both Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Land. I am pretty much done now.

Now I need to catch up on RB work. I got two meetings today, not looking forward to either now.

Then I go offline tonight until Saturday night. Ugh... So sick.

What makes things worse is that I know my wife and mother will call me often to yell at me for not taking medicine. That is just what I need, phone calls with an upset tone. I know they mean the best, but still. Got so much to do, so little time, and I am working in slow-motion.

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So last week, I went offline Wednesday night until Saturday night for the holiday of Sukkots. It was three full days of being offline. I did the same thing for Rosh Hashanah a couple weeks before, and I do it one more time this week (starting Wednesday night).

Going offline for three days in a row is really not easy for me. Not easy mentally, not easy physically and not easy when I get back... But it is something that I have to do, so I do it. This is how I dig out from being offline, when the rest of the world is not.

(1) I first download all the email from the past three days. Now this is a lot of email, a ton. Most spam is blocked, the spam that is not blocked is deleted. I then scan from the oldest to the newest and delete, file or reply to things. Anything I can't reply to stays in the inbox until I can reply to them.

(2) Then I check blog comment spam.

(3) I then read blog posts at both SERoundtable and SELand.

(4) Then I will go through all the feeds I missed over the past three days. Most I will skip, because they were covered at either SERoundtable or SELand.

(5) Then I jump on QuickBooks to review billing items.

(6) Scan emails again and then hopefully get read for bed. Keep in mind, I don't start item #1 until it is very dark outside.

The following day, I go to the office. This happened to be Sunday for these holidays. Yesterday, I was in the office for about four hours.

(1) Reply to emails that required me to be in the office but did not require additional help from staff.

(2) Review and pay bills.

(3) Send out invoices to customers.

(4) Go through emails again and file things away.

(5) Review feeds again.

(6) Prep things for Monday.

Then last night, I prepped some stories for SELand and went to sleep.

This AM I was still behind by thirty minutes. Maybe because it was Monday, maybe because Danny is away traveling for the next 6 weeks. Who knows.

I still feel behind.

It all starts again Wednesday night. To make things crazier, I am closing on a new house and moving next week.

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I should be more tired. I just don't feel all that tired. Is baffles me. Well, maybe not baffle, but surprises me a bit.

This week, time to rise was 5:15am. I did not go to sleep any earlier. In fact, I went to a concert at MSG in NYC two nights ago. Didn't get home until late, didn't get into bed until later. I was not tired at all yesterday. Today, I am also not tired.

I actually woke up even earlier today, without the alarm clock and got a bit of an early start.

I don't get it. I should be more tired. Heck, it is even pitch black in the morning, when I leave the house. Those types of mornings typically make me tired. Not this week.

Yea, running low on things to write about today. Amazing, huh?

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I got my second AT&T Wireless bill this weekend. I opened it and noticed I was billed for going $35 over on my minutes.

That made me a bid sad, so I started crying. No, I didn't cry. I put the bill on the side, and figured I would call today.

The week before, I called AT&T in a panic. I noticed I was about 70 minutes over, so I called AT&T. The person said, no worries, you have roll over minutes from the previous month that will cover it. Whippeee.

Then I get this bill for the overage.

I heard bad bad bad things about AT&T customer service and expected I would be charged no matter what I said.

I called, I said, I went over, why? I was told I had roll over minutes. The rep said, well, since the roll over minutes were from your first bill, they don't roll over. But in this case, she said, I will issue you a credit. I was pleasantly surprised.

The credit was issues and displayed on the web site within minutes of hanging up.

Sweet!

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On April 5th, I officially switched from Bloglines to Google Reader. But recently the new Bloglines Beta was released, so I thought I give it a new shot.

I always liked the Bloglines Mobile version over Google Reader Mobile. But the iPhone Bloglines is even sweeter.

Now with Bloglines Beta, I get a lot of the nice functionality that makes feed reading fast, as I would have with Google Reader. So I will pin the two against each other for not just the first time and not just a second time, but this will be my third time.

It is a good thing it is quick to switch back and forth. :)

I hope to make a decision in a week or so.

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This is the August 28th issue of a daily post that will contain links to commentary of the posts over at the Search Engine Roundtable. If you want the daily link finds to continue, and if you miss the daily search wrap up, please go here and vote. All links I find throughout the day that ad some commentary to the posts written over at the Search Engine Roundtable, will be in the Daily Link Finds. The purpose is two fold: (1) To help people find discussion around our articles and (2) To thank people for linking to us. How do I find these links? Only one way, via a Google Blog Search link command, so make sure that (1) you are in Google Blog Search and (2) link to us.

Daily Link Finds for August 28th, 2007 (from past week or so, sorry if I missed some):

• Blog News Roundup 8/17/2007, PPC Hero
• Search Engine Marketers Fantasy Football Challenge, www.marketingshift.com
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 2007, Search Engine Land
• Utah SEO, Bryan Phelps and Paid Links, Alex McArthur
• Audycje na temat pozycjonowania, seomedia.az.pl
• Bruceclay.com - Friday Recap, BruceClay.com
• Headlines of Note for August 20, 2007, Internet Marketing Monitor
• Barry Schwartz, Please Learn about the DMCA, Dense Random Googler
• Personalization session at SES 2007, Geeking with Greg
• SES San Jose Coverage Roundup - August 20, 2007, Search Engine Land
• SES San Jose Day Minus, Online Marketing Blog
• The Long Tail Is Dead -- Long Live the Long Tail, Search Engine Watch
• This Weeks Must Reads in Search Marketing, Web Analytics World
• Coverage of the Summer 2007 Search Engine Strategies Conference, ResourceShelf
• Search Engine Roundtable's Coverage of SES San Jose, Search Engine Journal
• Search Engine Strategies Copyright and Trademark Panel, blog.ericgoldman.org
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 20, 2007, Search Engine Land
• SES San Jose: Top Takeaways Part 1, Web Analytics World
• SES SJ 2007 Session of the Day: Personalization, User Data, seo-space.blogspot.com
• Eight Observations On PPC Ad Copy, Rimm Kaufman
• Paid Links Debate Heating Up: Google Under Massive Fire at SES San Jose ::, Fantomaster
• Who ranks who with Personalized Pagerank?, Andrej's Miscellany
• SES San Jose Coverage, Search Engine Watch Blog
• Danny's iPhone challenge, Joe Duck
• Search Engine Strategies (SES) 2007 Recap, www.lonelymarketer.com
• Afterthoughts on SES San Jose, Jonathan Mendez's Blog
• Matt Cutts Attacks Graywolf After SES Session, Scott Hendison
• PilgrimâÄôs Picks for August 27 - Post SES Edition, Marketing Pilgrim
• Search Headlines, Search Engine Watch Blog
• SES San Jose Housecleaning, Small Business SEM
• PilgrimâÄôs Picks for August 28 - Anniversary Edition, Marketing Pilgrim

That is the discussion I have found via Google Blog Search around the posts at Search Engine Roundtable for August 28th, 2007. Thank you for contributing!

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So Gary Price handed me a box, wrapped in birthday paper this morning. It looked like this:

So I looked at the card on the front, which read:

Barry -

Now you'll always know when your pen's running low!

Enjoy,
Ask.com

So I open the box and find a feather pen with a bottle of ink.

Too funny, a feather Quill pen. Yes, I guess, I will always know when my pen is running low on ink.

Thank Ask.com for fixing my pen outage!

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Typically, I am the type of guy that wakes up minutes before the alarm goes off.

But this week, I did not once wake up before the alarm went off.

I am getting a bit concerned.

What is different from this week as compared to last week? It is not like it is darker in the morning. It is also not like we had a time change. I didn't do any traveling. Haven't really been staying up any later.

What is going on?! :)

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This is the July 17th issue of a daily post that will contain links to commentary of the posts over at the Search Engine Roundtable. All links I find throughout the day that ad some commentary to the posts written over at the Search Engine Roundtable, will be in the Daily Link Finds. The purpose is two fold: (1) To help people find discussion around our articles and (2) To thank people for linking to us. How do I find these links? Only one way, via a Google Blog Search link command, so make sure that (1) you are in Google Blog Search and (2) link to us.

Daily Link Finds for July 17th, 2007:

• SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 16, 2007, searchengineland.com
• Google en bref - 16 juillet 2007, www.zorgloob.com
• 36 Totally Free PPC Learning Resources, www.aimclearblog.com
• A Comprehensive Guide to Using Flickr for Traffic Building and Marketing, www.doshdosh.com
• Google lanserar Custom Search, blogg.resultatmedia.se
• Google Launches Custom Search Business Edition, www.techmeme.com
• Google plaatst image-ads in zoekresultaten, www.dutchcowboys.nl
• Google Puts Image Ads in the Search Results, forums.digitalpoint.com
• Premium Adwords mit Bild, www.prometeo.de

That is the discussion I have found via Google Blog Search around the posts at Search Engine Roundtable for July 17th, 2007. Thank you for contributing!

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I was using my favorite pen today and I pressed the top in to eject the top of the pen, and the ben blew up.

You may be able to see the crack around the rippled part of the pen.

What is that right next to the Ask.com pen? I guess my replacement pen, from Searchfeed.com.

Why am I blogging up something so petty? Remember the The Latest Google Flatline from Ask.com that jokes about a Google pen that ran out of ink? Yea, Google restored the pen soon after. So when my Ask.com pen broke, it reminded me of this.

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Just realized I didn't update my blog today. That is rare...

So what happened today?
- Crazy busy morning...
- Blogged at SER
- Blogged at SEL
- Ben left at 11am
- Personal thing here or there
- Interviewed someone at 12:30pm for a job here
- Got on a client call
- Blogged more at SER and SEL
- Got on a Google call
- Did some wrap ups

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