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Christy Correll

Adventurists Prepare for 10,000 Mile Road Race to Benefit Homeless Kids in Mongolia

by Christy Correll on July 9, 2010 in Follow Friday
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A pair of London-based adventurists with big hearts are giving new meaning to the phrase “summer road trip.”
Nick Harvey, 29, and Maria Novatschkova, 31, will embark on their 10,000-mile adventure from London to Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, to raise money for Mongolia’s homeless children on July 24. ”Team Wanderlust” will join some 350 other teams from around [...]

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Google Explains the Caffeine Update

by Christy Correll on June 9, 2010 in SEO

Google’s Matt Cutts explains the Caffeine Update (which has FINALLY and COMPLETELY live) in this interview with Danny Sullivan at SMX Advanced. A synopsis of how Google indexes documents via Caffeine is also posted on Google’s official blog.

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Professional Video Gamers’ Bodies Comparable to 60-Year-Old Chain Smokers, Study Says

by Christy Correll on June 8, 2010 in Geek Chic

University of Essex Throws Away Undisclosed Amount of Research Dollars in Attempt to Determine if Top Gamers are as Fit as Pro Athletes
A recent study conducted by the University of Essex compared top gamers’ psychological and physical health to that of professional athletes. It concluded that while the “mental sharpness and psychological health of the [...]

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Follow Friday: Pomplamoose, YouTube’s Best Cover Band Ever

by Christy Correll on June 4, 2010 in Follow Friday

Cover bands are typically lame, but Pomplamoose is different. In fact, I’m pretty sure it is the first cover band I have ever liked. Ever. And now they are one of my favorite musical duos of all time.
Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn formed this Indie duo almost two years ago in San Francisco, showcasing their [...]

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Follow Friday: Where to Get Your Puppy Fix & Other Online Smile-Generators

by Christy Correll on May 28, 2010 in Follow Friday
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The next time you need to turn that frown upside down, consider visiting these sites. If at least one of them doesn’t bring a smile to your mug, well, there’s just something wrong with you.
The Daily Puppy – Bookmark this site now so that the next time you are about to have a meltdown at [...]

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Why I Couldn’t Resist Adding SEO Site Tools to Chrome

by Christy Correll on May 17, 2010 in SEO
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I have a confession. Early this month I blogged about how I had cleaned up my Firefox  toolbar, insinuating that I only needed three primary browser extensions in my SEO tool kit. At the time I wrote this, this was true. I swear.
Less than a week after publishing “Is your SEO tool kit getting a [...]

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Follow Friday: Ten Thousand Nets & Other Organizations Dedicated to Stopping Africa’s Biggest Killer

by Christy Correll on May 14, 2010 in Follow Friday
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Do you know what Africa’s biggest killer is? Nope, it’s not HIV. Until last night, that’s what I thought. It’s malaria.
Yeah, malaria, that disease that no longer exists in the Western world. However, if you have the bad fortune to be born in sub-Saharan Africa, you are well-acquainted with what is one of the world’s [...]

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If Orwell’s 1984 Scared the Hell Out of You, Please Sign the ACLU’s Petition Against Facebook

by Christy Correll on May 13, 2010 in Social Media

According to news reports, Facebook called a company-wide meeting today to discuss its privacy polices. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Facebook’s meeting on privacy issues is a result of a growing number of Facebook users who have become alarmed alarmed by the company’s casual attitude towards protecting user information.
As a result, the [...]

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New Twitter Tool Blackbird Pie Leaves Tweets Half-Baked

by Christy Correll on May 5, 2010 in Wordpress Thesis Hacks
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Blackbird Pie is the newest Twitter tool to be released. The tool (or toy, depending on how you look at it) is simple enough to use. To test it out, I found a witty tweet by my tweep Alex Friedman, a quirky online marketer and comedian here in Denver who tweets a lot about the [...]

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Is Your SEO Tool Belt Getting a Little Heavy?

by Christy Correll on May 5, 2010 in SEO
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These days, we are fortunate to have a huge variety of SEO tools to make our work easier & more efficient. Since so many of these tools are free, however, it is easy to clutter up your browser with many more tools than you actually need. I recently decided to clean up Firefox on my [...]

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