Notes from a wireframe world

An on-line petition calling for the UK Prime Minister to apologize for the prosecution of Alan Turing has received tens of thousands of signatures.

Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi Enigma code and told us how to tell whether a machine could think.

He was also gay. He was prosecuted for being gay, chemically castrated as a ‘cure’, and took his own life, aged 41.

The petition, which is due to close on January the 20th 2010, has been signed by over 13,000 people. To sign it you have to be either a UK citizen or resident in the UK. However if your not you can still help write the wrong, and get an apology for this man who so much of the world owes so much to, by re-posting, re-tweeting, up dating your status etc. in other words just letting people know about this petition.

The Web 2.0 Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is soon going to get a new color coding for edits that it’s trust tool think are untrustworthy, the example screen

shot (see above) does appear to indicate that edits that highlighted if they don’t have a “Neutral point of view”.

This is not a new idea however, it was first rumored over 2 years ago, however it appears wikipedia have taken the sensible step of not just implementing something because they can, but only rolling it out after getting wikipedias contributers on bored.

Internet marketing made simple

Part 1 – Selecting the right keywords for your website.

Part 2 – LinkJuice

Part 3 - Using Social media

Part 4 – Using Google (Will be on-line on Sunday the 13th of Sept, 2009)

Once you have picked a good set of keywords, and scattered them through you web site, your next task is to get inbound links. The whole Google search engine was founded on idea that, like academic papers, the number of ”citations or backlinks to a given page” is important, if a page has a large number of inbound links, it’s more important, and so ranks higher.

That said, Google extends this by “not counting links from all pages equally” if your linked to from a page that has lots of inbound links (i.e. an important page) your page is more important, than if you where linked to from a page with few links.

Stop their. At this point, the more devious amounts you are thinking, “WOW, maybe I could make a page that has lots of inbound links, from other pages I’ve made then just link to my main page. That would boost my ranking loads”, However believe me your not the first, and Google fairly quickly figured out how to spot this, and they then just removed all your pages from their search. That said if your still interested there is are good resource for ”Blackhat” SEO (Search Engine optimization) elsewhere on the net.

So how, without bringing the wrath of Google down on you, do you get lots of inbound links to your page?

Their is fundamentally only one way to do this, great content. Great content will be cited by others, you can ask people if they will exchange links with you (yes I will, more on how to get a link to your site on my blogroll in a bit), but they will only do so if you’ve great, relevant, content. Stuffing your site full of keywords may help a robot find your site, but it won’t help a human reading it.

Thats all for now, in Internet marketing part 3, I’ll talk about using social media to aid your site.

For anyone interested in exchanging links with this site, I’ll be happy to, you must however have a site focused on either social media, marketing (on or off line). If you do, add a link to either my home page “our-party.org.uk” or this blog “our-party.org.uk/blog” and let me know either via posting a comment here or via the contact me box on my homepage.

We’re not inclined to refute reports from a professional journalist on Twitter, so when Daily Telegraph reporter Jon Swaine says Google’s UK headquarters are currently on fire, we believe it’s true. Especially since the man has managed to provide some evidence by uploading a couple of picture to photo-sharing service TwitPic.

Here’s a clear picture of fire on the roof of some building, supposedly housing Google UK’s offices. Let’s hope no one gets hurt.

(Via @Scobleizer)

One last thorght, you don’t think they where useing an iPhone do you?