Archive for December, 2009

Blip Festival 2009
Thursday, December 24th, 2009

The Blip Festival, now one of the worlds largest and longest running events of its kind, continues to evolve with a greater breadth of international artists, a growing sophistication of styles and creative vocabulary, and a forward-thinking enthusiasm driven home by over two dozen of the worlds best musicians and visualists.
If there’s one thing festival-goers [...]

Weakness is Strength… when you learn from it « Edward E. Wilson
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Of course merely having problems isn’t ENOUGH to qualify someone to help you. The next thing they need to have done is LEARNED from it. What have they learned about coping with, or solving the problem that you have? Even someone only slightly ahead of you on the recovery curve can help you.
Next, they have [...]

Jonathan Mendez’s Blog: Rising Tide of PPC Means SEO is Sinking
Saturday, December 19th, 2009

With all current fuss about automated content for SEO I've found the recent changes by Google here and here have only greatly diminished the value of SEO for the most valuable keywords those that have transactional value.
via Jonathan Mendez’s Blog: Rising Tide of PPC Means SEO is Sinking.

Stephen Toulmin, a Philosopher and Educator, Dies at 87 – Obituary Obit – NYTimes.com
Monday, December 14th, 2009

Stephen Toulmin, an influential philosopher who conducted wide-ranging inquiries into ethics, science and moral reasoning and developed a new approach to analyzing arguments known as the Toulmin model of argumentation, died on Dec. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 87.
via Stephen Toulmin, a Philosopher and Educator, Dies at 87 – Obituary Obit – NYTimes.com.