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Re: Wikia search: Let’s give it a break

Jon Henshaw — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:15:05 -0000

I actually had a different take on it. I'm really pleased by it. It's aesthetically pleasing and seems to work quite well for an alpha release. I also like that they didn't go overboard with the social networking features.

Re: CSS Test Post

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:32:00 -0000

In general, you shouldn't name your IDs and classes by their attribute. For example, .red { color:red; } is a no no. Instead, call it by it's function, like .alert or .warning. That way, if you want to apply other attributes to it and even change the color completely, you can. Otherwise, there's really no difference between doing class="red" and doing an inline style of style="color:red;"

Now you may be up to something else that I'm not aware of and this may all just be a test that you're doing, but I couldn't let it go when I saw it. Especially since the rest of your code is excellent. That is all. I hope you don't take my comment the wrong way. If you do, please ignore me ;)

Re: Hip Hop is Gay: The Irony of Saggy Pants

Jon Henshaw — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:55:15 -0000

Daniel, that's hilarious! Where did you get that quote from?

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:49:26 -0000

I've tried to switch several times, but as a Web Developer I keep coming back to Firefox. I find the Add-Ons that I use to be too valuable. I also prefer Firefox's keyboard shortcuts (although I'm sure I could mimic those in Safari I wanted to).

Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:06:43 -0000

Ha! All I can say is been there, done that (several times). I predict you will be back on Firefox within a month -- 2 months max ;)

Re: No, THIS is Multi-Touch

Jon Henshaw — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:15:21 -0000

Drop the flat board/screen and start showing me the future already ;-) Definitely cool though.

Re: What Happened to the Quicksilver Site?

Jon Henshaw — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:01:12 -0000

It's probably temporary. I've actually stopped using Quicksilver for the time being, just to test out what it would be like only using Spotlight. Especially now that it highlights the Top Hit, making it work similarly to Quicksilver -- at least when it comes to quick launching apps.

Re: Quicksilver Partially Working

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:40:30 -0000

Looks like you can get it here: http://shiftedbits.org/2007/10/28/quicksilver-p...>

Re: Google Spreadsheets, one more reason not to pay for Microsoft Office

Jon Henshaw — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:13:37 -0000

I was able to gain access to it this morning and wrote a quick review including screenshots and a screeencast video here:
http://www.sitening.com/blog/2006/06/06/first-look-at-google-spreadsheets-plus-screenshots-and-screencast/

Re: Succeeding with API-as-Product-Launch

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:07:55 -0000

I like the idea of offering developers and incentive to get involved. That could be in the form of a contest, publicity or whatever.

Re: baratunde.com - Blog - Please backup your hard drive now... twice!

Jon Henshaw — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:51:47 -0000

Drivesavers doesn't cost that much (you said $6,000 is what they quoted you). It cost me about $2,000. You can read about my data recovery experience and also get a 10% discount from Drivesavers. Seriously, it shouldn't cost you more than $2,000 max through Drivesavers. If you change your mind, give them this code: DS16990 and they'll give you 10% off. Good luck!

Re: Why I Embed My Images

Jon Henshaw — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:11:15 -0000

Personally, I prefer to use Amazon S3 for all of our multimedia storage (images, audio and video). Sure, it's not free, but it's damn cheap and extremely fast and reliable.

Re: The 2008 Social Network Analysis Report - Geographic - Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:12:04 -0000

Thanks for spending the time to put this together. It's a very interesting list and a lot to digest.

Jon Henshaw's last blog post..Stop Words Becoming Increasingly More Relevant to Domains and Search [1]

Re: Marketers: Stay Away From Digg

Jon Henshaw — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:43:54 -0000

Excellent points. In my opinion, Digg is great for dofollow links and traffic for building inbound links (assuming the content is compelling enough to bookmark and/or blog about). Otherwise, it's mainly noise without much chance of driving targeted traffic or creating conversions.

Re: URLs - Human-Friendly Or Robot-Friendly?

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:24:48 -0000

If you care about traffic from search engines, then you should stay far away from the "human URL" argument. Seth may be a marketing guru, but he gets it very wrong when it comes to SEO. This is illustrated easily in the fact that he endorses this: "7. Use subdomains when driving people deeper than your homepage - e.g. Product.YourBrandName.com."

As Matt Cutts confirmed to me, subdomains are still considered unique entities to Google, which means if you followed a strategy of spreading out your content over many subdomains, you would greatly dilute your top level domain (TLD). So, instead of having one high authority TLD with tons of great content, you will have a diluted TLD with diluted subdomains. That is not a good strategy.

If you're concerned about humans, then use a short URL redirect system. Because the only humans we're talking about that need human-friendly URLs are the ones typing them in manually from a print publication. Because on the Internet, links are links are links...and it doesn't matter what they look like to a human.

Re: Webslingers' Journal - Making a TextMate theme.

Jon Henshaw — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:22:45 -0000

"A page of your portfolio" -- Sounds intriguing! :)

Re: 2007/09/21/diggfeedr/

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:14:19 -0000

Nice, but this is the original diggless Digg feed: http://sitening.com/digg/

Re: Bill Slawski and Kimberly Sitting in a Tree…

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:40:08 -0000

Jordan, that's hilarious. Not the new found love mind you, but the sweet offspring picture ;)

Re: No, I didn’t take down Amazon

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:42:26 -0000

My theory is that it's all related to Twitter. Wherever Twitter goes, hosting environments fall! :P

Re: No, I didn’t take down Amazon

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:48:19 -0000

@Wreck, I hope to one day be lucky enough to own two baskets, then if one basket breaks, I will still have 1/2 a website...that is 1/2 of a useless, broken website. There's no difference between using S3 or any other hosting provider. They are all susceptible to going down. If you break a few eggs or piss on your basket, the result is still usually the same. Of all the services, S3 up to this point has been a very reliable and affordable service – and I think they still are.

Re: No, I didn’t take down Amazon

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:07:23 -0000

@Scott, now you're just making me hungry for eggs.

Re: Most SEOs are crooks?

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:18:25 -0000

I think this is a case of the so-called "crooks" making more noise than those that aren't. If you're someone who actually awards your business to people who spam you, then you probably deserve to get screwed by a "crook" SEO.

For the most part, good SEOs have people coming to them and not vice-versa. They also, like myself, are very upfront about what can and can't be guaranteed. I always go through an educational myth-busting process with all my clients.

As always, if it sounds too good to be true...

Re: Free Blog Editor Tools - Post Article to Multiple Blogs

Jon Henshaw — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:01:20 -0000

Even better, a web based blog manager

http://raven-seo-tools.com/pluto-edit/

Re: CSS Test Post

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:32:00 -0000

Re: Hip Hop is Gay: The Irony of Saggy Pants

Jon Henshaw — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:55:15 -0000

Daniel, that's hilarious! Where did you get that quote from?

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:49:26 -0000

Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:06:43 -0000

Ha! All I can say is been there, done that (several times). I predict you will be back on Firefox within a month -- 2 months max ;)

Re: No, THIS is Multi-Touch

Jon Henshaw — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:15:21 -0000

Drop the flat board/screen and start showing me the future already ;-) Definitely cool though.

Re: What Happened to the Quicksilver Site?

Jon Henshaw — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:01:12 -0000

Re: Quicksilver Partially Working

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:40:30 -0000

Looks like you can get it here: http://shiftedbits.org/2007/10/28/quicksilver-p...>

Re: Can Blogs Do Journalism?

Jon Henshaw — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:32:48 -0000

I would dare say that many bloggers do a better job at journalism than (traditional) journalist themselves. The good bloggers – that are journalistic in nature – often have a much better idea of what's going on in different industry sectors than those who report for them via traditional mass media.

This entry makes me think of an opportunity that a community college or larger university could take advantage of. That being the obvious need for a class on journalistic blogging. It could be a crash course in journalistic integrity and teach the basics of story structure and fact gathering. It's just an idea, but it's something I might consider taking as a night class.

Re: Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:31:05 -0000

I think the music industry has flourished. Small time singers and bands can now make six figure salaries thanks to social networks like Virb, and services by Echomusic and Artist Data Systems. The big losers are the big recording companies, that all became a business about making money, not music.

Re: Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:12:14 -0000

Scott,

I figured you did. I just wanted to point that out. And yes, it will be really interesting to see where the selling of music goes. I'm an optimist though. I don't think that most people aren't willing to pay for music – they just aren't willing to pay for all the music they want.

I also think that giving away and sharing music contributes to the future purchase of music. There are countless bands that I've discovered through free means, that I've then gone and purchased several of their albums. Not to mention, seeing them in concert, buying their swag, etc..., like you suggested in your comment.

Re: Can Pay-For-Performance Improve The Quality Of Content On The Web?

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:20:12 -0000

I've found that quality content performs as well or better than sheer quantity. The trick is "digestibility." Readers – including sophisticated online readers – crave quality, but they also crave their time. Readers want a quick synopsis of a story, similar to the bullets on CNN and the teasers on AlterNet articles. Then they want a well researched and structured article that includes sub-headers and bulleted lists. At the end of the article, include references and resources with links.

Most readers know quality content when they read it and they crave it. Change (tweak) how you deliver quality content and I believe that people will both follow and refer other people to it.

Re: Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:55:22 -0000

This is one of the best opinion pieces on the state of online advertising that I've read in a long time. You seemed to hit on every point and I appreciated you bringing attention to one of Facebook's failed attempts at monetizing their users online relationships.

Personally, I think the future of online advertising – beyond the AdWord/AdSense buyer with intent model – will involve the old school method of clever product placement. The "editorial" won't be about the product, but the product will still exist within the editorial. The future of modern online advertising will rest in the hands of streamlining the process of integrating product placement with high quality content. In my mind, it won't be much different than what movies and print publishers do today. It's just that nobody, except for a few players, have truly created a brokered process that can be easily integrated with mainstream advertisers and generalized publishers (niche blogs, etc...).

Re: StumbleUpon Rocks

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:40:34 -0000

I found the same thing. Not only is StumbleUpon fun to use, it drives a crazy amount of traffic to my sites.

Re: When Will SEO Become Obsolete?

Jon Henshaw — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:28:29 -0000

It's not going to go away, but it may look somewhat different. Seems to me that to say something is going to look different on the Internet five years from now is to state the obvious. However, if I were to make a prediction, I would say that it's not going to change all that much. What will change will be the functionality of browsers and the new and updated languages that go with it. I think SEO will basically remain the same in regards to 1) writing code that helps search engines comprehend your content 2) creating link bait. Last, good SEO includes some forms of marketing, so I'm not sure why you differentiate it.

Re: Why Pubcon Rocks

Jon Henshaw — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:28:10 -0000

I'm really surprised at the large turnout this year. I remember when it used to be much smaller. Most of sessions have been excellent, but I was a little disappointed when Matt Cutts crashed the link buying session. Panelists like Jim Boykin seemed to completely clam up when they found out he was there.

Re: Micropayments Are Here, Just Not in The Way Some Hoped

Jon Henshaw — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:09:37 -0000

One of the biggest hurdles, as the author explains, is transaction cost for micro-payments. The companies that came and went depended on high volume customers to make their company work. Unfortunately, there aren't enough of these companies, which is why it doesn't work if that's your model (shutting out the smaller guys with large fees and/or minimum monthly transactions). What the author failed to mention is Amazon.com's new Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), which is currently in Beta. Like all of Amazon's AWS services, it allows for anyone to affordably access the service. So, in my opinion, micro-payments are finally here, and Amazon will be one of the major players, just like they are now with data storage and delivery (S3), distributed on-demand processing (EC2) and simple queue services (SQS).

Re: Guess Who Owns Yahoomsn.com?; Also, the Best Logo Award

Jon Henshaw — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:42:50 -0000

Ha! Whatever! My logo is way better than that. Take for example that their logo doesn't have any sexual innuendo, while mine does ;-)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/raven.sitening.com/imag...

Disqus - Latest Comments for Jon Henshaw

Re: Wikia search: Let’s give it a break

Re: CSS Test Post

Re: Hip Hop is Gay: The Irony of Saggy Pants

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Re: No, *THIS* is Multi-Touch

Re: What Happened to the Quicksilver Site?

Re: Quicksilver Partially Working

Re: Google Spreadsheets, one more reason not to pay for Microsoft Office

Re: Succeeding with API-as-Product-Launch

Re: baratunde.com - Blog - Please backup your hard drive now... twice!

Re: Why I Embed My Images

Re: The 2008 Social Network Analysis Report - Geographic - Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed

Re: Marketers: Stay Away From Digg

Re: URLs - Human-Friendly Or Robot-Friendly?

Re: Webslingers' Journal - Making a TextMate theme.

Re: 2007/09/21/diggfeedr/

Re: Bill Slawski and Kimberly Sitting in a Tree…

Re: No, I didn’t take down Amazon

Re: No, I didn’t take down Amazon

Re: No, I didn’t take down Amazon

Re: Most SEOs are crooks?

Re: Free Blog Editor Tools - Post Article to Multiple Blogs

Re: CSS Test Post

Re: Hip Hop is Gay: The Irony of Saggy Pants

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Re: Dumping Safari. Going to Camino.

Re: No, *THIS* is Multi-Touch

Re: What Happened to the Quicksilver Site?

Re: Quicksilver Partially Working

Re: Can Blogs Do Journalism?

Re: Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology

Re: Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology

Re: Can Pay-For-Performance Improve The Quality Of Content On The Web?

Re: Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web

Re: StumbleUpon Rocks

Re: When Will SEO Become Obsolete?

Re: Why Pubcon Rocks

Re: Micropayments Are Here, Just Not in The Way Some Hoped

Re: Guess Who Owns Yahoomsn.com?; Also, the Best Logo Award

Re: No, THIS is Multi-Touch

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