2013 in review (bloggy goodness)


The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 48 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

2012 in review


A year in bloggy goodness…

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 5 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

Self-imposed


Your love draws

the self-preservation from its holster.

It fuels the need for promises

crumbles the self-imposed prisons.

Pictogramm silence

An SEO-inspired poem

Monday sunset love


Unicorns and motorcycles, helicopter rides and kindness.

Sunset love on Monday.

Creative Commons photo by Mathieu Chédid of a guitar with a heart shape

An SEO-inspired poem by Duffboy

 

You and Linda Powell


You will write a baby poem,

while images of hands making heart shapes fade away.

You and Linda Powell will be more than friends.

The hater mode will shut down, if angels

should open their eyes.

A Duffboy poem, inspired by some of my blog search engine term referrals

No Pin for You! How to Stop Users Pinning Your Content on Pinterest


Woj Kwasi, one of my SEO mentors, has published a great article to help users who want to protect their content from being shared on Pinterest (the incredibly popular online pinboard). To quote part of what Woj writes:

“The main concern around Pinterest is around the subject of Photography and photographers worried that their content could get distributed without credit or acknowledgement that they are the creator of the content.

The interim solution: You can block people from pinning material from your site!

Simply add the following meta tag to the pages containing the content you don’t want pinned in the <head></head> section of your page’s HTML code:

<meta name=”pinterest” content=”nopin” />

The following message will then be displayed if someone attempts to Pin the content:
“This site doesn’t allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions. Thanks for visiting!”

However, this will not completely stop your content being taken. Users can still save the files & upload them to another site.”

Given that Pinterest’s Terms of Service have been under large amount of scrutiny (As Woj recalls, “It gave Pinterest the right to sell the content & placed all legal emphasis on the user pinning the content.”), I will not be pinning any time soon: I prefer Hunch, which combines a “taste-graph” and a never-ending questionnaire.

The Soup Nazi says No Pin For You