Archive for September, 2006

Class Action Legal Advertising

I’ve changed the title of this post to Class Action Legal Advertising to get around some filters focused on “light cigarettes” I seem to have encountered.

In Florida, it was recently ruled that light cigarette manufacturers are liable for misrepresenting their products as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes. (I’m sure you’ve seen it on the [...]

What is the Yahoo Directory?

Someone asked me the other day, “Just what is the Yahoo! Directory?” I culled together a few sources along with my own notes and produced this overview. Perhaps someone will find it useful!
Yahoo Directory

Launched in 1994, Yahoo is the web’s oldest “directory,” a place where human editors organize web sites into categories. However, [...]

Checking Your Links Too Often?

Update: see Adam Lasnik’s comment below
I read an interesting post on seoblackhat.com today saying that Adam Lasnik of Google confirmed that their “link:www.mysite.com” query i) isn’t very accurate and ii) is seen as a “spammy” request by Google. In other words, people hammering Google.com with “link:www.mysite.com” are effectively revealing themselves as ~nefariously involved~ with [...]

Building WAP Enabled Legal Websites

I’m pleased to announce CaseDetails.com is now WAP enabled! What’s that mean? Visitors who access the “normal” www.casedetails.com URL via cell phone, Windows CE device, BlackBerry, etc. will be redirected to an XHTML compliant version of the site where past and present posts are available for review.

Now that I’ve got this up and running here, [...]

Windows Live Writer - Worth a Try?

There’s a new tool on the block aimed at the booming blogger market - Windows Live Writer (Beta) 1.0. In summary, it’s a desktop application that allows WYSIWYG authoring of posts by programs like WordPress, Blogger, Movable Type and more. In an interesting twist, the program also has a SDK (software developer kit) so modules [...]

w.bloggar Review

One of my few complaints about WordPress as a blog publishing platform is that the “visual rich editor” isn’t very powerful for formatting and manipulating text and/or HTML. While you can turn off this visual editor, I recently read a WordPress book where w.bloggar was recommended as a (free) option. w.bloggar 4.0, a desktop application [...]