Posted by randfish

There is some darn good stuff to chew on this week. Get ready to put 40 minutes on hold during your lunch break today and read through some of these - might I suggest an order of Thai curry fried rice or some Korean spicy tofu soup for today's material?

• Barry has a new look for SERoundtable - congrats, my friend!
  
• Shari Thurow is talking about search term highlighting at SELand; this reminded me that I wanted to ask - has anyone done testing on the value of "highlighting" terms that users searched for to get to your site on your site once they reach it? I know WebMasterWorld does this and we were thinking about implementing here at SEOmoz, too.
  
• Aaron, with help from Cygnus, is deciphering the recent change in the Google algo that has quite a few SERPs looking all shook up.
  
• Don't read this, that's not why I'm linking to it - Dave Pasternack - now watch, that will be the most clicked link of the bunch...
  
• A lot of people are boycotting MyBlogLog over their scrape with Shoemoney. Andy points out the hypocrisy of the act, which is hard to aruge.
  
• At least in our Feedburner stats, Google is only half the traffic of Bloglines (yes, even with the new boosted numbers), which somewhat contradicts Feedburner's latest stat report.
  
• I LOVE this open letter to Digg from Skittzo. And I think it's laugh-out-loud irony that it was buried once it was made popular. The stories that get buried - Duggtrends shows an updated list each day - are usually as good or better than what's on Digg, they just don't fit with Diggers' politics.
  
• Way to go London - Wired News notes that Britain's capital is making a Web 2.0 comeback, which is great news for people like me who love visiting.
  
• Bill's got the lowdown on a Google patent app that might let all of us in on the spam fighting business. If you thought Wikipedia edit wars were ugly, just wait....
  
• That post I made on Experts vs. Novices has attracted some good positive attention, and some negative attention. In fairness, I think "Expert" and "Novice" were the wrong words to use, but I'm struggling to come up with more accurate nouns. I would hate to think that I've become "disconnected" from in-the-trenches SEOs - I made a promise to myself not to go that route.
  
• Lianna makes an excellent point that Brittanica now has a large, public, free portion of their encyclopedia online. They still need a lot of work to be competitive with Wikipedia, but I'm rooting for them.
  
• 28% of Americans are "scientifically literate" meaning they could read a science/technology article in the New York Times and comprehend accurately. The other 216 million residents of our country need help. It's our duty as marketers, people! Besides, just think of the swelling size of online markets once we can convert these folks to science-and-tech-savviness.

Too much flying has frazzled and schnozzled my noodle. Help me out with the links I overlooked.

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