Phil Butler Unplugged

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. [...]

After you have been around the blogosphere for a bit you begin to develop what we might call “the simmering anger syndrome.” Regardless how upbeat, positive and otherwise “cheery” one may enter this domain, eventually requires a good deal of fortitude and depending on the individual and inundation, downright godliness. I have seen everyone [...]