Maybe you did something to invoke the wrath of the googlegod. Or maybe you're not getting the right keywords out. Or maybe your blog is getting buried beneath tons of other blogs. Relax. There is hope.At this moment, I have a PR5. If that dropped to 0 or rose to 7, would it make any difference? Honestly, I don't know for sure. I've been in both places, and nothing seems like it really changed...So you wanna know how to increase traffic without relying on Google or Bing or Technorati?Here's ho... Read Full Story

Blogging service Posterous has chosen The Rackspace Cloud to support the blog site’s operations and storage needs.Google is offering free WiFI at 47 airports nationwide for the rest of the year.If that's not enough, Google has launched an online flu shot finder...And there's more! Always! Google will Acquire AdMob for $750 Million... why? For the iPhone connection! Read Full Story

With all the talk of Swine Flu/MexiFlu/H1N1, I find it amusing that the "Spanish Flu" of 1918 actually started in Kansas - I do recall seeing something a couple of years ago in one of the local papers about the time when the 1918 flu passed through the City of Albany. The article stated that just about every single house on every city street lost one person to the flu: imagine that! A lot of interesting stuff actually happened in the year 1918: you can discover more on WikiPedia!TM_Outbreak ... Read Full Story

Remember Fulla? She's getting a little competition, from a converted muslimah named Barbie!Michelle Malkin posts "Barbie meets sharia"...Sokari offers Shailja Patel on poetry performance & resistance ::: Kenyan performance poet and activist Shailja Patel speaks on her work as an activist and the responsibility of individuals and civil society in pursuing social justice. Shailja discusses a range of issues from the role of civil society in Kenya, climate change, capitalism and Barack Obam... Read Full Story

Scene of the crime: 217 New Scotland Avenue is located in a "relatively" nice area, down the street from Trustco bank, Stewarts, Mobil & Subway - with JERNY a couple of houses on the other side. The "catch" - one of the nearby cross-streets is Lake Avenue, which has been the scene of several crimes. Maybe the "Lake ave. riff-raff" is moving uptown to conduct their perpetrations?My post last week about the murder of young Elizabeth Olten at the hands of teenage Social Networking Psychopath... Read Full Story

Daniel Pádua [pt] (also known as @dpadua on Twitter) had been recently diagnosed with cancer and lost the battle this week, in Brasília. Always present in open source software and free culture events in Brazil, he was a strong reference for many bloggers in posts about ciberactivism and freedom of speech on the Internet.Tags: Daniel Pádua, Daniel Pádua Read Full Story

UC Berkeley protest ends with 41 arrestsWay back in the 1960s, Berkeley was at the center of collegiate counterculture: it boasted a reputation for student activism and unrest. Fear not, boomerites! Berkeley is back, with a vengeance! Michelle Malkin posts a tell-all:Tuition hikes and custodian layoffs were the latest excuse for a UC Berkeley campus tantrum. The San Francisco Chronicle called the student takeover of Wheeler Hall an “occupation.” In the old days, dyed-in-the-wool libs would pr... Read Full Story

Had nothing to do Friday night (for a change) so I turned on the TV and found a 1964 movie: One Potato, Two Potato... it's a black-and-white drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver, Faith Burwell and Bernie Hamilton... and it's about black and white relationships, specifically a white divorcee's marriage to a black man, which could end up costing her custody of her daughter. Now, today this is just another drama, but it was quite a little groundbreaker ... Read Full Story

A recently released music video for "Popular Demand" by the Clipse featured the awning of the infamous Obama Fried Chicken joint in Brownsville, Brooklyn. But in comparing versions of the video airing on MTV and elsewhere, it looks like the TV channel completely erased the restaurant's name from the awning in the video's opening shot. Brokelyn, the Brooklyn blog t... Read Full Story

Central Avenue, approx. 3pm... a beautiful day but look at those clouds! Read Full Story