Over the next 13 months, we’re going to have to endure yet another campaign season here in the States. Two primaries and then a long, drawn out general election. One way to deflect these attacks is through defensive SEO. It helps suppress concerted attacks by depressing negative search results while increasing positive ones. And I think it will be vital. Hopefully, others will listen.

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Meredith sent me a link to a Slate article, Must Read TV, about how the lives of your favorite TV characters are actually as interesting as the shows they’re on — in fact, some of the best programs and production companies are using blogs as co-narrative strategies, allowing hyper-fans access to spoiler information even before the shows they represent air — yes, the fictional character blogs are the sites that get the show exclusives.  How is that for postmodernism? I can hear French literary theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, and Hélène Cixous standing in ovation to this absolutely normal intentional absurdity. I am no Derrida, but I love the implications here.

Characters from The Office, The Closer, Grey’s Anatomy, Nip/Tuck, How I Met Your Mother, Monk, the soap opera One Life To Live, and the kids’ show Postcards From Buster all have blogs (and, in some cases, MySpace pages). Even the banker from Deal or No Deal has a blog, in which he confesses his intense dislike of the program’s contestants. Via Slate

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