One of my favourite charities is Oxfam. It's only one that has managed to get a monthly payment out of me every month for the last decade. My father set up the first ever Oxfam shop in Hong Kong (Not the first shop... just the first in Hong Kong) and every month my payment is in his memory. By contrast, I find myself heading to Pubcon next week in Las Vegas… Continue reading...

I just had a bizarre online experience. It's 10:50 pm on a Friday night. I just heard @randfish (who was at my table at a social occassion wedding a few weeks back) is going to present to the UN Secretary on Sunday. I was told that by @ciaranj, just after he told me that my new favourite program; Flash Forward was on TV. I think it is about time to consider… Continue reading...

OK - this isn't SEO related, but it does show how many ways there are to make money online... People can make money out of anything - Whether you are an MP or a designer it would seem…

Greg Jarboe interviewed me at SES London. Looks like I just crawled out of the nearby canal before coming on air. Note to self - must get haircut Continue reading...

Blogging really isn't hard. My 8 year old daughter is on the other computer as I write, typing her first WordPress page up. Favourite colour, age, etc. To be fair I set up the installaton for her, but now she's pretty much on her own. I have to say it's not with a little intrepidation  that I am letting her loose on the Interweb. It's far too unregulated, she's going to… Continue reading...

Congratulatons Jon Myers and Lisa Ditlefsen. Jon was one of the early SEO chaps at Latitude - then called Corporem Global and Lisa is best known for being part of SEO-chicks. Better not mess it up guys... you are all over the web now!… Continue reading...

Are the search engines are becoming fiefdoms in their own right, unrestrained by the notion of corporate responsibility? Corporate privacy may need protecting a law at some point in the future. Continue reading...

          

See? No lose situation. Continue reading...

Oops. I am about to do a talk at SMX Stockholm on Universal Search. I'm up with Adam Lasnik from Google and Andy Atkins-Kruger from webcertain. The problem is that universal search is all about optimising other forms of information on theweb. When you look for a picture of dixon jones on Google, it takes an effort to find me. You get some Grannies and Darth vadars… Continue reading...