Miscellaneous

30 Jun 2007

Says Google: StyleWeekly.com may harm my computer

If you’re a Richmond, Virginia local, you’ve probably visited the Style Weekly web site [click at your own risk]. I Googled “style weekly” tonight and noticed in the search results a message that reads, “This site may harm your computer.” (shown below)

Style Weekly screenshot 1

I clicked on the search result anyway, and I got the following message:

Style Weekly screenshot 2

I’ve never seen this behavior from a Google search result before. Has anyone else?

Certainly, this isn’t good for Style Weekly. Not only does Google warn against going to the site, they post an interstitial page that doesn’t include a link to continue to the web site.


15 Jun 2007

New site: 3 Fellers Bakery

Last week, we launched the 3 Fellers Bakery web site. 3 Fellers Bakery is a startup run by a Goochland woman who has invented her own gluten-free cookie dough. Since then, she has created a line of gluten-free products.

The site allows users to purchase online and runs on the Yahoo Merchant Services platform.


26 Jan 2007

I’m named in new Forrester research report on business blog ROI

Back in June of 2005, Charlene Li posted a piece on the Forrester blog called “Calculating the ROI of blogs – it�s not about the math.”

After reading this, I posted some commentary on calculating business blog ROI here on my blog. Forrester read my post and asked for permission to use my post as a part of their research for an upcoming report on business blog ROI.

For a cool $379, you can download and read the newly-published Forrester report titled “The ROI Of Blogging,” where I’m named as a contributor to the report.


23 Dec 2006

Now accepting comments

I’ve been blogging here for almost two years now, and I haven’t accepted comments because of the massive volume of blog spam. I routinely get 10-20 attempts to post spammy comments every week, so I’m sure it’s a problem. So many folks have requested that I enable comments, though, that I began looking at a solution in October. After some testing and modifications, and now that I’ve gotten some free time to implement it, you can post comments here on the blog. I welcome your feedback and look forward to the dialog!