by David | Jul 29, 2015 | reading & writing
Answering a random call for SEO help – actually it turned out to be canonical URL help – I happened to notice that the site in question referred so something as a “seemless way” to do something. My inner autocorrect went, “hmm” and...
by David | Jul 8, 2015 | reading & writing
When I first heard this word used – just last month – I thought it was spelled “kattywompous” perhaps in adjectival rhyme with “pompous.” Alternate spellings are many but catawampus appears to be a close second. As words of the...
by David | May 26, 2015 | eating, reading & writing
I was making a barley risotto the other night when it dawned on me, doesn’t “risotto” mean “rice” in Italian, or at least something rice related? Indeed, it does, making “barley risotto” nonsense, albeit an easy to make and...
by David | Jan 14, 2015 | culture, reading & writing
Let’s not dwell on why I was looking up the word callipygian, or, for that matter, why I checked the Google books ngram graph for it. Let us instead wonder, who, or maybe what, a century and change before Minaj, before Kardashian, even before Mix-a-Lot, inspired...
by David | Jan 12, 2015 | photo, reading & writing
Dark arcs are inscribed By passing powdery wind A wire in winter
by David | Jan 5, 2015 | reading & writing, working
Welcome to an occasional series kicking off 2015 with some resolutions for marketing and marketers. I’ll do my best to stick to them if you do. First up, I resolve not to treat content as a commodity. If content is critical to your strategy, and I’m going...
