Are the children pleading with you to buy them a dirtbike for Christmas? Rather than simply cave in to their demands for this year’s “hot” item, turn it into an opportunity to teach them the value of money, and create a good little work ethic at the same time! As described in a recent Parenting […]

This blog is my musings, riffs, soliloquies, tips, etc. about various aspects of online marketing and ebusiness, from search engine optimization and PPC (pay-per-click) keyword bidding, to online catalogs & ecommerce sites, to web site usability, to online advertising, to email marketing, to copywriting for the web, to website security and online privacy… and much […]

I’ve come to loathe the question (although it’s more like a polite platitude) “Keeping busy?”, as if an affirmative answer equates to effectiveness and success in life. I just came across a nice article by someone on the same wavelength as me. Published a couple months ago in Harper’s Magazine, it’s called Quitting the Paint […]

This is rich – the Australian government has invested a lot of time and energy building… (drum roll please)… a National Public Toilet Map website! This isn’t just any old static web site. Oh no! It’s a personalizable toilet map site with sophisticated functionality for you avid toilet searchers. Register on the site and you […]