The Slakinski Log

As a blogger I hate SEO, they ruin the web. When I search for something I don’t want some stupid sales link at the top of my serp (search engine results page) I want what I searched for! Its becoming more and more common that my search results are getting cluttered with utter crap. Google, Yahoo! or anyone for that matter needs to do something about this.

One thing that will help is that more blogs and social bookmarking sites need to implement nofollow which will hurt these guys! Since its blogs and social bookmarking/news sites that these guys target.

If you want to see how slimy these guys are, watch a “promo” vid for SEO.

The guy that did the above video — Gary Ruplinger — Is taken to task by Anti-SEO Jason Calacanis (Formerly of AOL and founder of Weblogs Inc.)

Way to go Gary… go ahead and piss in the town well (i.e. digg, netscape, google’s index, etc). I mean, finding a bathroom to relieve yourself would take too much work. Forget about the fact that the rest of us drink from that well…. you go ahead and piss in it.

So I was talking to Kevin Rose (of digg, techtv, twit fame) last night, just seeing what each other have been up to for the past little bit… which was nice, being an internet bigwig has not changed him a bit. But then something haappened today, I saw the new GoDaddy commercial and who did I see in it? Mr. Rose! You’d think he’d mention that to me? So I decided to hit the net and do a quick search and it just turns out that I need to read my RSS feeds more often Anyways congrats Kevin and Alex!

So when will we see an digg ad on the superbowl?

BTW: My wife’s comments as I rewind and pause on Kevin’s image during the ad. “How did you see him among all the girls?” Erm, my only defense was he was the odd person out in the group, so how could you miss him!

As per that theme song the other day, I’m going to take a new road and if all goes well, never look back! Yesterday I quit my day job to join up with a new startup company that oddly enough isn’t podcast related. I’m not sure what this means for Transistr, but I do know that PopCurrent.com will remain running and be well maintainted still (aka It’s not going anywhere, so keep on popping) but it does mean that I’m going to try something new and fun this year!

Wish me luck!

I’m starting to think that Ruby on Rails is a cult and quickly becoming a religion. It even has its own list of commandments like “Thou shall not write code until I have a test for it” and “Thou shall not repeat thyself” It even has its own leaders like David Heinemeier Hansson that are listened more closely than any evangelist on TV. I don’t really have a point to this blog post, its just an observation. I’m a card carrying member of the cult and proud of it

I’m now at the Portable Media Expo! If your around, you can find me at the PopCurrent or Podiobooks booth or I will have my cell phone 905-399-EVIL(3845)

I have 2 talks that I’m giving. Friday at the Podango Unconference at 3:30 entitled “After iTunes”; the other one is with Evo Terra on the PME show room floor on Saturday at 2PM where we are going to be talking about PodioBooks and PopCurrent. Please come and attend if you can.

Technorati Tags: iPodderX, pme, podcasting, podiobooks, popcurrent, puppy, transistr

I’ve “talked” over email a few times with Robert Scoble — the man, the myth, the legend — but never using more than a keyboard, but that was until tonight Robert and I had a 30 minute conversation about a new site I’ve been working on called PopCurrent. Read what Robert had to say over here, and you can post comments on my blog or on his.

Also on a side note, I’m going to the Portable Media Expo this year? are you going? if so say Hi!

My 2 cents on Jason’s hiring Digg submitters to work for Netscape:

Social news is about voting on submissions and taking good submissions and making them more visible, if Jason hired people to vote on submissions that would be wrong but putting stuff into the pipe/tube isn’t IMHO.

Technorati Tags: digg, jason calacanis, netscape

A few days ago I posted how Dave was looking to see if there was any support for resurrecting the OPML podcasting directory and I weighed in with my full support. Well, it looks like I’m not alone and with all of us saying “Hell yes!” it looks like Dave gets what he wanted, and so do we!

podcasting.opml.org Permanent link to this item in the archive. I’ve been hearing from a lot of people who think it’s a good time to restart the community podcasting directory — so let’s give it a try.

Now we have to do more than just say we support it, but use it and contribute back to it! that goes for you too PodShow Play nice with us and we will play nice with you guys (develop using your private APIs)

Technorati Tags: adam curry, iPodderX, libsyn, opml, podcasting, podshow, Dave Winer, rss

Dave Winer wants the Podcast Directory to live again, and I could not agree more. On his blog he posted this:

If there’s sufficient interest, I’ll happily host the root of a community podcast directory. I might even have a good domain for the purpose. Get it? It’s chow for your pod.

The separation of such a public commodity as podcasting into corporate hands such as Apple and PodShow with no giving back to the community is shameful. While iPodderX/Transistr reads from the OPML directory, it always gave back to it. I’ve spent lots of time working with Libsyn and others to push back out OPML as well to give back to the community.

I like to think of the public directory as the fuel for the podcasting fire, at least in developers terms… the fuel has started to die out, and I don’t want to see that happen. If your interested in hosting a node, or if you have been maintaining your node from the old directory I urge you to contact Dave and see if we can get things going again.

Technorati Tags: adam curry, iPodderX, opml, podcasting, podshow, libsyn, transistr

Transistr (formally known as iPodderX) has a review of news view of the data, but I never got use to reading news in that way. I tried but I just didn’t feel right. Most days I like to go right to a few sources that I like to read carefully then skim the rest really fast. I also (like Scoble) like to be clear of who is saying what, and reading by feed helps do that. Lastly who wants your entertainment news mixed in with your tech(sorry for the digg on digg but it couldn’t be helped:))

Anyways I see how people like the river, and I think its an option we should have; but its not an option I’m planning on using all that much in the near future.

Technorati Tags: iPodderX, transistr, rss