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Anger is one of the less noble of human emotions. We tend to beat ourselves up when we get angry. After the emotion dies down, we feel a little foolish for losing control. As Ben Franklin said,

On average, a story making it to the front page of Digg.com gleans 129 links and generates over 10,000 visitors per hour to a website, or so say the experts at the SMX Social Media event in New York.

It seems that 2007 brings us a “SEOs are teh devil” mantra from a multitude of newly crowned golden children of the web and to be perfectly honest it’s starting to annoy me. No doubt the likes of Slashdot have already dealt with and got over the impact the SEO industry may or may not have on the operation of their site - having implemented procedures to deal with comment spam, crap submissions and the like, Slashdot is still doing fine.  So why are newer community driven big brand sites so anti-SEO?

In today's business world it is not uncommon for many sales people to work from a home office. At first this may seem like a great opportunity, however, it does create some unique challenges.

If you run a web site that allows comments, you are going to get comment spam - that's just a fact of life in the current Internet.

When I was a kid cautionary tales usually involved crossing the street, stranger danger, and scissors. Modern parents are adding anecdotes about MySpace and other social networking sites where strangers transform from shadowy abstract figures in far away communities to hoards of perverts lurking about your living room.

What do you do when an employee disagrees with something you've written on their performance review? How can you prepare for this and deal with it effectively?

The rise of online advertising available from the search engines parallels their rise; at SES Chicago, speakers from Yahoo, Google, and other firms discussed the world of contextual and non-search ads.