standards

While I was off doing some work Jill and Lisa engaged in a debate over whether or not we need SEO standards. Even though I’m a day late and a dollar short I’m still going to throw my 2 cents in.

On hold and accutely aware of how annoying classical hold music interspersed with recorded voice is after the first couple of times. Mr. Broken Record tells me to have my passcode and conference leader's name available...as far as I know, my conference leader is Steve Ballmer.  

I’ve been an avid Mac user for many years, since about 1996, and actually that’s when I started working on the web.

A couple of days after showing how deep their affection is for users finding the right privacy features in Google products, the company acknowledged the European Union for its acceptance of open standards.

This should come as no surprise from the people who’d sue you to stop you from linking to them: at a publishers’ consortium today, after complaining about the limited nature of robots.txt, the newspaper industry has proposed new standards to prevent search engines (and other sites) from indexing their sites willy-nilly.

I just read one fricking fantastic post by Andy Rutledge on web quality.

The Email Experience Council has published a survey on the "State of Email Metrics & Bounce Management." The report found a lack of standards around industry metrics, bounce data, definitions and bounce management practices. The council found that those issues make it difficult for senders to improve the marketing effectiveness of campaigns, manage their lists and maintain positive reputations as legitimate email senders.

You may have heard a lot lately about "Web standards." I think it's a good thing that web standards are getting more attention.