It Must Be The Emerald City

June + 52F + Rain = Seattle!

Here's U.S.E.'s awesome Seattle song - Emerald City:

Management Posts Via Ross Mayfield

I am reading all of these, thanks to Ross Mayfield for putting them all in one place:

Provocations and Design Flaws for Management

Take That VCJ Pay Wall!

If they tell you this:



Go here:



And read this fun article from Venture Capital Journal

SEOmoz Top 100 Domains On blist

I made a cool blist from some data that Danny Dover put together over on SEOmoz - it's a ranked list of the Top 100 Domains on the Internet - a few of the top 100 are NSFW - so the first thing I did was to create a custom blist datatype so that I could mark each one as Safe/NSFW. Log in to blist and then paste in this url to take a look:

http://app.blist.com/#/blist/mjohnsonapp/SEO-Moz-Top-100-Domains

There are a few data sources: Compete, Quantcast, Alexa, Popurls

Fun With Post Titles

Recently resolved to rank first for the phrase UGC Viral Loop:

Google Sample robots.txt

I went to this little SEO talk for developers at Google Fremont last night puttogether by Ignition EIR Vanessa Fox. Absolutely the highlight was hearing an anecdote about Google posting a sample robots.txt file for webmasters to use that excluded the MSN crawler - and how, as you can imagine, that same robots.txt file is still in use by a large number of websites to this day.

World's Best How To Become A VC Post

'How to become a VC' is a blog topic that has been around the block more than a few times - but I think Fred Wilson has just now completely put it to rest - this is the best one by far:

I Got Lucky - AVC - Fred Wilson