Monthly Archives: April 2009

How To Lose a Job Because of Twitter

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

Some people just don’t get Twitter.  Twitter has become extremely popular and like most social media sites, it has become something that is checked by recruiters and human resources people before they make job offers.  In fact, many recruiters use the web to check and screen applicants prior to interviews, using what they find to make judgement calls based on the information discovered. Why would … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Miscellaneous | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Domain Registry of Canada – A Scam or Advertisement?

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

The Domain Registry of Canada (DROC) just sent me a notice telling me that one of the domains that I own is about to expire.  The offered to “transfer and renew” my domain name for $40 per year, or $160 for 5 years.  What’s even more alarming is that I had received similar renewal offers from the Domain Registry of Canada several years back and … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments

Site Redesign, Impacts on SEO and Revenue

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

After completing a major redesign of Macular Degeneration Support Canada this evening and resolving most of the issues of 404 pages with 301 Redirects, it is now a matter of time before determining how this site redesign will impact SEO and revenue.  Careful planning went into the entire site redesign, to ensure that the transition went smoothly. The site redesign presented an opportunity to analyze site … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, SEO / SEM | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Reputation Management – Domino’s Pizza

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

In light of the incident where 2 Domino’s Pizza employees posted YouTube videos showing some pretty disgusting practices when making pizza, the president of Domino’s Pizza posted a video on YouTube. In making this move, Domino’s is tackling its online reputation management and giving the company an opportunity to regroup and deal with the backlash occuring throughout the online community. Companies that ignore the power of social … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Marketing | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

WordPress SPAMbots on Overdrive

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

This weekend there has been a crazy amount of comment SPAM in the several WordPress blogs that I run.  There’s been hundreds of SPAM comments left and they are coming from a variety of IP addresses and cover a wide range of topics. I have Akismet installed and it’s capturing all the SPAM, but it makes me wonder how successful these SPAMbots are at filling … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Windows XP – Delayed Write Failed

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

It’s getting a bit annoying receiving the message “Delayed Write Failed” when working on my laptop.  The exact message being displayed when I can read the error message is “Delayed Write Failed: The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.“  Unfortunately, the only option available is … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Bell Expressvu Receiver with External Hard Drive – Record one Channel Watch Another?

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

In the blog article Upgrade Your Receiver with an External Hard Drive I talked about adding an external hard drive to your Bell Expressvu 6141 HD Receiver to activated the PVR functionality of the receiver.  This article has attracted a large amount of interest and I’ve been very happy with the PVR functionality that this has added. However, last night I tried to watch one channel … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Bell PVR External Hard Drive – Can I Copy the Files to a Computer?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

After blogging about the Bell Expressvu 9241 / 9242 HD PVR Plus receivers and the Bell Expressvu 6141 HD Receiver with external hard drive, many people have been emailing me and asking the same question –  ”Can I copy the movies from my PVR to my computer and watch them?” Well, that’s a 2 part question and there are actually 2 answers.  From what I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | 37 Comments

Redesigning a Site – Best Approach?

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

Redesigning a site is always a challenge, especially if you have pages that are ranking well in the search engines.  With any site redesign, you are in danger of damaging any optimization that has been done as well as in danger of losing inbound links.  However redesigning a site is sometimes required, especially if there is a required software upgrade or the site itself if … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

How Many Sites Should I Run?

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

I’ve received several emails asking the same question – How many sites should I run? Well, that is such as subjective question that there’s no way to provide a single best answer.  The number of sites you should run entirely depends upon you.  There are many factors that go into deciding what you should do and how much time you want to spend on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Blogging | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment