Phil Butler Unplugged

Suffering from a major case of writer’s block myself (PR consulting induced), I decided to see what my readers (and as it turned out everyone else’s) are missing. Somehow I managed to amble over to Rafe Needleman’s fine Webware blog first thing, and what did I find there? The 98th most popular website in the [...]

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 [...]

Just when you thought no widget had been left unturned, JS-Kit released another cool one today. The Score widget is a fairly simple tool that emulates the thumbs up voting widget on Digg. However, this variant is a good deal more powerful in that it enhances the blog or site it is deployed on. [...]

Another venerable traditional periodical migrated to the Web last year with something less than a bang. The Atlantic magazine constructed a Website, though a rather pitiful one last year. Now the site boasts video and big time bloggers and it has become rather upscale compared to the ugly duckling it once was. Like other traditional [...]

Some time ago a friend or associate, I honestly do not remember which, said something like: “Phil, you are one of the most insightful “A” list bloggers out there.” I can remember thinking; “WTF does that mean?” though I vaguely understood that “A” was obviously better than “B” and the person meant it as a [...]