Phil Butler Unplugged

Back in October of 2007 I wrote about a great little innovation called Disqus, a very refined comment/discussion tool for sites. Back then, and even now, I was convinced that Daniel Ha – the founder – struck hard at a point of pain on the Web – interactivity. The Internet is about communication and not [...]

The first couple of months I spent here in Germany fairly dashed some of my perceptions of both the people and the essence of the place. I expect this is true for most visitors, and certainly my "American" sense of old world charm was slightly skewed by not so much disinformation as being [...]

Delving into the mysteries of the Web for the 10,000th time, I decided to go all out transparent and also help a friend today. You see, all bloggers and social networking fools use essentially the same strategies to get what they write notices. Whether the subject is super informative news or simply some refined spam, [...]

Being something of a pureist Web 2.0 guy, I have criticized SEO quite a bit in my blogging career. As most of us find out sooner or later however, most professions have varying tiers of professionalism and excellence. This is true of search engine optimization as well. SEO, taken to its most excellent [...]

Okay, a little reverse movie psychology being applied I know, but the way of the Beta is to make a platform and refine it according to user needs and suggestions. With all the various platforms out there, I thought some "once again" news about a really great startup called Second Brain might [...]