Archive for February, 2008
John McCain’s campaign staff might want to start paying attention to the chatter going on in the left wing side of the blogosphere regarding his search engine results.
It is time to start bomb bomb bomb, bomb bombing again. No, not Iran, but John McCain’s Google ranking.
In looking for a search engine optimization against McCain, the first step is to choose good websites to optimize. Here some criteria for good websites:
* The website should already be in the Google top 100, for searches on John McCain, making it easier to increase the ranking over time.
* The website should have the word “McCain” in the title of the search result making it easier to optimize.
* The website should be from a well-known news source, making is less obviously a partisan attack.
* The website should have a long life span, and not in danger of being removed before the general election.
* The website should be a negative news story on McCain, not an opinion piece.
So, in essence, the left isn’t even trying to hide their efforts. Instead, they openly admit their shady practices and bluntly put together a game plan via a publically accessible blog post. Continue Reading
E.M. Zanotti, one of my favorite bloggers in the entire sphere, is celebrating her 26th birthday today.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY E.M.!!!
E. M. Zanotti, the American Princess, is, as she is so oddly described, a 25-year-old overeducated, overopinionated, politically conservative relapsed Catholic, technogeek, “crunchy con” and member of the legal profession. She has served as the editor and lead writer of American Princess since its inception in 2004, and alternately as a freelance political journalist, columnist and talk radio personality (go figure). Her work has been featured and/or maligned on National Review Online, the Washington Post, Salon.com, Slate.com, BBC World Online, AOL News, Netscape News, The Huffington Post, Say Anything Blog, Lew Rockwell, Right Wing News (where she also serves as a perpetual guest blogger), Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Wizbang Politics, Ms. JD, TechRepublican, TechPresident, GotDetroit.com, RightMichigan, and Wonkette (among numerous, less hip others). She can, occasionally, be found on television as the “token conservative” on various CNN programs and on Michigan public television.
She is a Detroit (yes, that Detroit) native, but currently an Ann Arbor resident, and has all of the necessarily pretension and apathy that that address requires (as well as the requisite love for film, art, ethnic food and indie music), only she has to hide it because she consistently votes Republican. In her spare time, she shops for shoes, reads non-fiction (particularly on philosophy, economics, religion and political science), plans cheesy vacations involving large fiberglass objects and obscure museums, and researches Disney history. No joke.
You might want to read this…
And for the record… I’ve been a publisher for about four years now and I completely agree with everything mentioned.
As always, major props are due for Ari Shohat and Digitally Imported.
Ari, a web entrepreneur who I have watched for some time now, has put together a powerful set of beat fan havens. Specifically, DI and Sky. Apart from Ari’s superb ability to succeed in the online music realm, he has perfected the practice of blending mixes into delicious doses of mind medicine.
DI’s Tribal House had me hooked a few months back. Now I find myself stuck on the Funky House mix.
I highly recommend you give it a try.
It’s double trouble for a Rock Hill family. First they lose their house through eminent domain. Then the city sues them for removing items from their house before it was demolished. FOX 2’s Elliott Davis asks what’s really behind the lawsuit in this You Paid For It report.
H/T: Izzy Santa
