Search Engine Etiquette: Never, Ever Ask for a Backlink
In a nutshell ...
Once Google set the plot point, backlinks became hard to ignore. And marketers looking to get an edge started using a variety of tactics to gain a coveted spot on the front page that didn’t involve actually creating good content that people want to read.
Tim Bray, reflecting on the numbers for his Bye Amazon post.
But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope. For every discipline-with-depth that I care about (software/Internet, politics, energy economics, physics), if you want to find out what’s happening and you want to find out from first-person practitioners, you end up reading a blog.
Was true, is true, will be true.
The Technium
I know everybody and her mother have already linked this and bookmarked it, but I want it here for myself, because there is some good stuff in this list.
"Blaming the internet for your gullibility is like blaming a screwdriver for your neurological defects."
No idea where I found this, but I liked it enough to write it down. If you know the origin, please let me know.
I am amazed and saddened by the number of beginner bakers I see in forums saying that their bread tasted fantastic but didn't rise enough, or didn't have giant holes, or didn't a shiny crust, or whatever.
Just eat it.
Bread porn too has a lot to answer for.