Brrr!  I am off to Chicago in the morning to speak at SES. Temperatures below freezing and snow already on the ground.  For a little African lizard like me used to blazing heat it’s way too cold.  I bought myself some thermal underwear and pulled out my down parka and off I go.

Unreliable access to one’s website when spiders come crawling could result in being dropped from a search engine’s index.

The latest report from Pew Internet and American Life Project confirms what might be common sense about teens and social networking, but also has a couple of surprises. The not-a-shocker news: photos and social networking profiles increase the likelihood your son or daughter is approached by a creep.

The last decade brought two related surprises: the rise of social media and the rise of search media, says a new study from the Harvard Business School. Marketing is struggling to find its place in these new communication pathways, says the report. 

Some time ago, Google announced that it would install a number of solar panels on the much-discussed Googleplex.  Those panels are now in place, on, and, according to the company, generating “an electricity output capable of powering approximately 1,000 average California homes.”

Jennifer Laycock explains why not all online reputation management services are created equal.

In recent times, MySpace and sexual predators have become closely associated terms in the minds of parents and lawmakers across the nation. The social networking site is currently developing software designed to allow parents to more closely monitor their children’s MySpace activities.

For quite a while now, I have needed a simple website monitoring tool that would check the uptime of my websites.

The ASP.NET 2.0 provider model has once again amazed me.

A Christmas gift from Sweden for webmasters and server administrators offers a free year of website monitoring, without strings attached.

There are a number of Mac OS maintenance applications that promise to help you with various tasks. We’ll take a quick look at a few of them here.

TechCrunch has an interesting piece on Monitor110, an online monitoring tool aimed at the hedge-fund market.

Forrester Research reiterated the importance of being aware of what people say about your brand online, and noted the four key parts to successfully evaluating potential brand monitoring solutions.

Unlocking the CF Server Black Box

If there was ever a research report I’d like to get my hands on, it’s this one from Forrester.

This article is an excerpt from the book: Murach’s ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# 2005.

It’s interesting that, just before I get ready to discuss online reputation monitoring at SES San Jose, Reuters is facing a blog storm.

Social News Sites Can Be An Inluential Part of your PR.

I don’t think I’ve ever used “or Die” in a blog post before, but CNET has a warning from JupiterResearch for all marketers…

Through the use of a free client download from Ipwalk, users can enable realtime monitoring of their website’s uptime and any other user can check that status online.

Are you still nonchalent when it comes to tracking negative consumer-generated media?

I’ve got to admit, I am becoming a real fan of USA Today. I think it started during my trip to the Olympics, where it was typically the only U.S. English language paper available.