Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a vast and complicated topic with ever changing best practices. Google changes their rules on a regular basis (for example, we used to be told to remove prepositions and other useless words from a page’s URL, but that no longer matters), and it’s hard for even a tech expert like myself to keep up. I was recently...

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. The new Kindle was leaked by a Spanish retailer. It has a brighter frontlight, but that is just about the only major change. I thought “eejit” was an American slang term , but it turns out to be Irish. FYI: The folks who control WordPress (Automattic, and more specifically CEO Matt Mullenweg)...

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. There’s a new social media marketing scam making the rounds. Draft2Digital just released the results of a survey on what authors think of generative AI and licensing. Two new Kindles are coming soon, possibly on Tuesday of this week. Nathan Bransford wants to know what is your worst case...

There’s drama going on right now in my industry, and I felt compelled to comment on it. As you know, I build websites using the WordPress platform. This is an opensource software for building websites which is free to use (you just need a server to run it on, and the skill to run it), There’s a WordPress conference called Wordcamp US going on right...

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. NY-based Strand bookstore has launched an online game for bibliophiles. Google Scholar is getting spammed with AI-generated academic papers. Amazon is recruiting audiobook narrators to allow their voices to be licensed for AI-generated audiobooks.  This makes a nice change from tech companies...

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. I wish I could visit the town in northern NY state which has 7 bookstores for 400 residents. The closest I have in my area is Charlottesville, which has 5 bookstores in a 2-block radius of downtown. The Internet Archive was hit with another setback in its ongoing attempt to rewrite copyright...