Chris Pirillo University (CPU): Writing for Google

Nov 16, 2010 | One Comment

Are you a blogger, copywriter, journalist… or just someone who enjoys writing online? If so, then content discovery is likely VERY important to you – even if you didn’t realize it already. On Thursday, November 18th, I will be co-hosting a webinar with my good friend Jake Ludington called Chris Pirillo University (CPU): Writing for [...]

How to Extract Links from Download Sites

May 24, 2009 | 5 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Links are pieces of text that make a web browser useful. Some pages have a lot of links sitting on there. You might want to extract the link, and not all the other garbage. There’s an easy way to do this, [...]

How to Track Popular Links on Twitter

Mar 6, 2009 | 3 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I love links! And, of course, I love Twitter! So, it’s no wonder I enjoy checking out links on Twitter, and tracking them. Links are shared constantly on Twitter, and it becomes impossible to keep track of everything. How do you [...]

Public Relations (PR) and the Blogosphere

Mar 13, 2008 | 15 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I don’t mind PR agents, really. There are some – and their approaches – that I DO mind. There’s a fine line that a lot of PR people don’t realize is there. I’m now being asked by a journalist to give [...]

My Lovely Lady Links

May 23, 2007 | 4 Comments

[Okay, there are no lady links here - I just have Fergie on the brain.] What to do when your Web cam bites the hand that installs it. Registering a domain name is easier (and cheaper) than you may think. Make no bones about it: dog fighting is criminal. Run BASIC (don’t walk BASIC)! Outlook [...]

Pirillo’s Picks for 02/21/2007

Feb 21, 2007 | 3 Comments

I send my picks to 140,000 subscribers every day – join them by sending an email to picks@lockergnome.com. If you blog and encourage others to subscribe to the list, your site will be placed in the queue to be featured in an upcoming Pirillo’s Picks! [OOPS] Microsoft apologises for serving malware (tags: security, Microsoft, apology, [...]

Pirillo’s Picks for 02/20/2007

Feb 20, 2007 | 3 Comments

I send my picks to 140,000 subscribers every day – join them by sending an email to picks@lockergnome.com. If you blog and encourage others to subscribe to the list, your site will be placed in the queue to be featured in an upcoming Pirillo’s Picks! [BE] Windows, Linux, OS X… Haiku?! (tags: haiku, beos, operatingsystem, [...]

Pirillo’s Picks for 02/15/2007

Feb 15, 2007 | 2 Comments

[NEWS] Vista Will Have Little Impact on Mac Sales (tags: vista, mac, osx, sales, os, operatingsystem, computer, microsoft, apple) [USEFUL] Spam-Harvest-Proof Email Link (tags: spam, harvester, spammer, email, obfuscator, link, mailto) [CRASH] Automated off-site backup tool for everyone (tags: backup, software, storage, Mac, windows, network, linux) [FIND] StumbleUpon for Video (tags: stumble, youtube, video, web2.0, [...]

Google Search Results Link Crap

Jun 6, 2006 | 9 Comments

I don’t know how or why this is happening, but there must be some way to turn it off or stop it. Since moving to a new machine, I’ve discovered that all my searches through Google produce results that have crap surrounding the direct hyperlinks. For example, a search for the word “Chris” spits back [...]