Posts Tagged ‘wikipedia’

Why Search Engines Like Link Building

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

When considering all aspects that will make your blog more visible in search engines, link building should be on the list, if not close to the top.  According to Wikipedia, “Reciprocal linking between websites is an important part of the search engine optimization process because Google uses link popularity algorithms (defined as the number of [...]

Microsoft blunders over Wikipedia editing

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Microsoft has landed itself in hot water, again, among the blogosphere and public in general after it offered to pay a blogger to edit certain Wikipedia articles in their favor.

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia - anyone can add or edit almost anything on the site. The chaos of such a method is maintained in [...]

A new year, new adventures

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Happy New Year! Although just barely two weeks into it, it already feels….well, not quite old but more like "broken in".

Before you read too much further, don’t think that "new adventures"
means that I’m leaving either Forrester or this blog. I’m thoroughly
enjoying both but I’m going to be up to something new this year as well.

I’m [...]

Web 2.0 Most Popular Cited Term

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Wikipedia has announced its top 10 citations for 2006, which this year is topped by "Web 2.0". The list still includes "blog", and "RSS" showing the growth of interest in understanding these words & technologies.
Advertising Age:

"Still not entirely sure how to explain Web 2.0 to your friends? You weren’t alone in 2006. In a fitting [...]

Senator’s Wikipedia Edits Cause Blogosphere Controversy

Monday, January 30th, 2006

FYI, if you or your company is well-known enough to merit a wiki entry, you’d be wise to remember that your edits are public knowledge, traceable by your IP address.
The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in [...]