links for 2008-04-17

This is an early beta, right?

A rant worth reading simply for the line "You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile".

"If someone takes the time to leave a positive review–how much time does it really take for you to say thank you? Make it a daily/weekly part of your routine–it will take you less than an hour a week".

"Only 40% of the top 100 retailer sites are optimized well or moderately well while 27% show no signs of any optimization. Non-optimized sites that perform well on the search engines are relying heavily on the popularity of their brand names".

"Last night, I couldn’t fall asleep because my Blackberry kept blinking red. Every few minutes, I was receiving notification of a new follower on Twitter. Most of my new followers were spammy, commercial accounts who were adding new people in bulk".