Question: Are there any permanent archives of ADE articles online? Thanks.
Answer: Not at this time.
Migrated to del.icio.us/adirondacks recently. Pretty sweet handle. All the imported bookmarks were not shared so I’ve had to go through each one. Laborious, but interesting. Somehow I never noticed that the Adirondack Daily [...]

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That’s it, the professional blogger/web designer/SEO person can now aspire to a new title. Social Media Optimization Expert. Oh, if your thinking that some doofus from MySpace is going to launch your website into the new millenium, unfortunately for 90% of the world, that is what your going to get and it might [...]

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I gotta say, I’m an Adirondack convert. In fact, you could say I’m a professional minister of sorts. Turns out that people would rather listen to the guy sitting next to them in the pew than the preacher. Duh. Funny thing, I think I’ve formed a Web 2.0 sect within my [...]

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Update: Official Tourism Brochures
Marketing Sherpa has a case study about the Virginia Beach tourism website’s redesign. Effective websites are extremely important for destination marketing and this article sums up many issues that those of us in the industry should consider when creating or redesigning our promotional sites.

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Suspicious of Google Search results? Here’s a great list of alternatives to the teetering behemoth known as Google. I’ve had some good results with Gada.be and Keotag.com - they’re not perfect, but it sure feels good to have an alternative.
More Info:
Google News Bias - Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
Neutrality for [...]

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I can’t put in words how amazed I am every morning to not hear that the lawsuit against Maine blogger Lance Dutson has been dropped. The WKP Advertising and the State of Maine by association are playing a game of chicken they cannot possibly win. At this point, WKP might as well [...]

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Maybe I’m on to something. The Adirondack Hiking Guide was at #101 yesterday. This morning it is now #83! This is with practically no SEO other than a few inbound links. Heck it hasn’t even been rated by anyone. Cool. I wonder what would happen if someone actually gave [...]

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