Something off the wall

Here is a link to "Made Up Words in the Simpsons," cataloguing and explaining such immortal terms as craptacular, Dorkus malorkus, cromulent and crisatunity.

Measuring Online Influence

This is a great article by Micah Baldwin on how you can discern whether someone is viewed as an expert by an online community - and, by extension, how you can develop your personal brand.

"In terms of measuring online influence, the stronger the personal brand, the more influence one wields online. The most important component of online influence is trust. Trust is defined as creating a consistent expectation that a person will always act in your best interest when given information."

Real-time search using Twitter and Google

http://mt-hacks.com/tag/twitter/

This guy at Movable Type Hacks has some intriguing plugins. To search the five most recent tweets on a topic, he created a GreaseMonkey script. YOu have to get the plugin for Firefox. but it's an interesting concept, as is the overarching question of whether Twitter is a threat to Google, and, if so, how.

If the link above does not work, use http://mt-hacks.com.

How to grow your blog to the next level with SEO

How to grow your blog to the next level with SEO
Nice common sense article by Darren Rouse about what to do to promote your blog once you're out of stealth mode. (I'm just bookmarking this for later review.)