This was my second year attending Pubcon, a “Search, Web 2.0, Net Marketing, SEO/SEM, Affiliates, Domainers, Video, Multimedia : aka: Webmastery.” That’s a lot of words needed to describe a conference, but it’s fairly accurate, as Pubcon covers quite a wide range of topics. Which is one of the things I love about it.

The keynote that really stood out was by George Wright of Blendtec. I wasn’t all that familiar with the Blendtec ad campaign before the conference, but I still found George to be an excellent speaker who did a great job telling the story of a tiny company who increased their sales 700% all thanks to a marketing campaign started with $50.

Last night, my wife and I headed over to Salem Beer Works after work to hang out with the Build Guild. This was our first time attending a networking event for the “web inclined”, as you might call them – a mix of web developers, designers, and pretty much anyone else involved or interested in [...]

Usually, it is fairly straightforward to use a .htaccess file to redirect an old website to a new one. Yet for some reason, I was having the hardest time getting this to work for my wife’s old blog. There was a link that came up when you Googled her name, and I was using that [...]