I noticed that as well. I also received a blank page until a few refreshes eventually loaded the page. Oddly, all the HTML of the site is loaded via Javascript.
I think he's referring to domain authority (PageRank) and not just indexing. GoogleBot can hit your site several times a day and index things quickly. Building your domain authority on the other hand and connecting all the dots (like your back-link profile) takes a long time.
I agree, but with sites that do not have much authority (aka PageRank), it's difficult to determine attribution when scraped content is coming online just as quickly as an original post. Googlebot will generally hit a site several times a day, but if it's hitting the spammer's site first or if the spammer site has more authority, it's a long uphill climb to get things turned around.
I should also point out that this is just one thing to consider amongst the other points already made by others.
Regarding the spam sites, in your RSS feed, you are publishing your full articles. More than likely, the scraper sites are pulling directly from these feeds, publishing quickly and getting Googlebot to see the content before it hits your site (thus receiving attribution). I would suggest:
1) Summaries only in RSS feeds.
2) Throttle the RSS feed back by several hours so that your latest article is not listed immediately.
3) Upon publishing, immediately link to the article via all of your social media outlets.
4) When internally linking within articles, use full URL paths and not relative. (If the spam sites are directly pulling your content and not cleaning up, you may be able to get a link back to your site from the scraped content.)
When publishing, timing is everything. Just my $0.02 based on my own experiences dealing with spam sites.
On a side note, even though we are in the age of HTML5, I would still suggest sticking with one H1 tag per page, if possible.
I would think the cause of the ridiculous and nasty political divide stems more from campaign finance laws and media punditry masquerading as journalism rather than how the constitution allocates power to three branches of government. It seems to me that many Americans are taught daily to vilify anything that is put forth by an opposing party simply on the grounds of whether or not they have the correct letter prefixed to their title. I think the start of any fix would have to be campaign finance reform and a push for publicly funded elections.
> They all allow sharing pretty much the same (some content, whether it is text or photos) yet they are each hailed as the next big thing and the best thing since sliced bread
I think the difference is that with each iteration it became easier for the end-user to publish/share something. With GeoCities, they removed the need for a user to figure out hosting, running a server and purchasing a domain name (very expensive at the time). However, with GeoCities, you still needed to know how to write HTML/CSS/JS and use FTP. MySpace took it a step further from that point and did most of the HTML/CSS leg work but allowed for some minor alterations. Facebook took it even further and basically said, "we'll do all the leg work for you, all you need to do is type in a thought or upload a picture."
Agreed. Regarding your first paragraph, you could easily substitute Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc and it would still be just as valid. I shudder to think just how many web applications are still out there running severely outdated versions of PHP and whose source code hasn't seen a pair of eyeballs in years. I suppose this is one reason why SQL injections are still so pervasive.
Right, but that's a large, core Symfony component, not a small library. It essentially dictates how you handle fundamental tasks (such as routing) and immediately starts you off doing things the "Symfony way".
My mother used to read us the stories of Tomte Tummetott when we were very little, thank you for reminding me of that. But was not the tomte's job to watch over the farm and farm animals and silently keep things in order? I do not recall them having much to do with Santa Claus.
Who is saying that and what is their data? I wouldn't say it never happens, but it sounds more like the kind of argument a random, obnoxious TV pundit would make.
Not disagreeing with you, but I would add, "Small established companies" can charge these rates. No one is going to pay some unknown person/company $200/hr without an established track record.
In short, you painstakingly build a network over time. Eventually you get to the point where good companies find you. There's no definitive way to do this and that's what makes running a successful consulting company difficult. In my experiences, all of the consultants that I know (including myself) who are going strong, sort of fell into consulting after working a long time in their industries. If you are young, I would suggest working for a company in your industry first and gain experience/contacts before setting out to be an independent consultant.
In another comment, you mentioned your system works by polling for user activity, creating "baseline" profiles and monitoring usage activity. That certainly does not appear to be anonymous data to me.
I disagree, at least for the foreseeable future. The amount of resources and energy needed to convince the general public to fund "difficult-to-understand" research which is needed to solve larger "difficult-to-understand" problems will be too great of barrier to overcome for most research groups. I think crowd-funding in research will be ancillary at best for a long time.
However, what's missing is access to a teacher who can guide you through the subject material, answer questions, show you the pitfalls, extrapolate on topics and give you a thorough understanding of what you are studying. A good teacher is an invaluable resource that you will not receive through independent study alone.
Personally I'd hold off committing any source code (outside of personal projects) to something this new anyway, especially if it's only your first week on the job.
I didn't quite get this either. It seems that a developer would also have to do extra parsing on top to determine which links are external and which are internal. The only impression I got is that he just created a more convoluted way of linking between documents.
I'm in a similar boat. The only reason why I still have a Facebook account is because a few groups that I belong to like to organize their events using Facebook Groups. It's frustrating but cancelling my account would mean missing out on a lot of things. Unfortunately, I don't see Facebook allowing you to access this without signing up for all of Facebook.
I don't find that quote to be really all that clever. No person is immune to discussing any of these things in any given conversation, no matter how great or small the mind. I think the original author of the quote was either misquoted or trying too hard to be pithy.
Crowd-funded projects fail all the time. What do you do when your local police or fire department fail to meet their crowd-funding goals? How do you handle those that donate very little or nothing at all but consume large amounts, if not most, of the services/resources? How would an individual possibly have the time to adequately research and figure out what to crowd-fund? How would you stop outside interest groups from manipulating what gets crowd-funded? The list goes on.
On the other hand, Obama does not need to worry about his own re-election and it seems like quite a few Democrats threw him under the bus in the past election.