Adam Kuban: Kublog

my rest stop on the information superhighway

Month: December, 2009

Links from Thursday, December 17, 2009 to Wednesday, December 30, 2009

13 Tutorials to Help You Grow Your Blog Readership Next Year [Problogger]1. The Myth of Great Content Marketing Itself 2. Nine Things to Do to Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More Than Your Mom 3. Five Ways to Get Your Blog Indexed by Google in 24 Hours 4. SEO Tips for [...]

Video time machine: “Merry Xmas Everybody,” Slade throughout the years

Curious as to what the 1970s UK rock powerhouse Slade actually looked like, I turned to YouTube. Was there a live performance of the iconic holiday song “Merry Xmas Everybody” there? There are at least four. And what’s beautiful is that each version is from a distinctly different era. There’s the glam era Slade, the [...]

‘Be a Chairperson’

You can’t really read it in this photo, but the piece of tape on the backrest says, “Free.” As seen on Fourth Avenue near Union Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Links for Thursday, December 17, 2009

Holiday pupcakes are almost done [Cute Overload]Heh. Puppy in the mixing bowl. Cute, but it looks staged.

Tyger! Tyger!

I was looking for some travel toiletries in this drug store in Berkeley, California, on my Pizza Madness 2009 tour when I turned the corner and saw this. It actually startled me at first; I thought it was an actual animal sitting there in the aisle.

Some cool Christmas songs

Note: In the world of Christmas songs, “cool” is relative. Let’s just say that these are some of my favorites. “We Three Kings of Orient Are,” The Beach Boys (iTMS, Amazon) “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey (iTMS, Amazon) “Silent Night,” The Coctails (Amazon) “O Tannenbaum,” Nat King Cole (iTMS, Amazon) “We [...]

Why your auto-retweets are annoying

I follow a number of people on Twitter who also use Tumblr or the newish TypePad Microblog service. Some of these people have linked their Twitter accounts to their Tumblrs or Microblogs. Some of these people are annoying. I’m not going to name names, but you know who you are. Basically, if all you’re using [...]