What happened in London on September 7th 1859? Well, lots of stuff I’m sure. Anything that mattered? Not really. I love Google Trends-London, September 7th 1859 is just the type of oddball thing that pops up from time to time. When all those Song Lyrics Shows were on a while back, you could count on all the songs being near the top of Google Trends. Lots of games show type questions end up on Google Trends. Big Ben is the popular Google Trend answer to what happened in London September 7th 1859. The Clock Tower owes its existence to a…
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Naked Clown Calendar
To benefit MS research and advocacy through the Judy Finelli Fund. The Judy Finelli Fund advocates cures and treatments of MS, promotes artistic expression through circus arts and enables those affected by MS to pursue their passions. 100% of the net profits from the sale of each calendar goes to the Judy Finelli Fund.-Naked Clown Calendar Well, I’m all for raising money in any way you can, but there is just something odd about a naked clown calendar. For some reason I expect to see Clown White all the way down and not just on their faces. After all, clowns…
First Day of Fall 2008-Here at last
It’s been a long hot summer and now it is finially the first day of fall. The autumnal equinox marks the first day of the season of autumn. On the date of an equinox, the Sun is above the equator and night and day are of approximately equal length. For most of us the first day of fall is less about equinox and more about cooling off. There are also those Charlie Brown type memories of jumping in mounds of leaves and making a wonderful mess of a once clean area. Of course, you need good trees for the right…
Montauk Monster-Where’s P.T. Barnum when you need him?
P.T. Barnum, like Gawker, wouldn’t really care what this is, so long as he could get it into a display case and charge people to have a look at it. The story has been a great one for the simple reason that there is no story to speak of. Something- a sea turtle without its shell, a dog with its fur burned off, a raccoon missing its upper jaw, or just a Monster of Montauk-washed up on a beach in New York. The Montauk Monster was not fully born until it showed up on the web and everyone starting guessing…
Buzz, Trends, and Blogs
Buzz marketing and viral marketing are the same thing-word of mouth marketing for your product and a desire to visit your website. As a money making blogger I am a big fan of Adsense for search. Business buzz words for me are keywords that get eyes on my posts. I did this kind of search engine optimization even before I had ads on my blog. Even if your blog marketing plan is just to get more hits, keeping track of trends and buzz and using viral marketing techniques is a good idea. A big part of my buzz marketing has…
Yoko and Girl Named Lennon
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. John Lennon Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Andy Warhol Yoko Ono, famed meanie who broke up the Beatles-the most popular band in history-is in the news for suing a singer most of us have never heard of called Lennon Murphy. E!Online has all the details about Yoko Ono going after Lennon Murphy by filing a petition with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Seems Yoko gave permission for Lennon Murphy to use the name Lennon in 2000, but has now decided it is a…
Slow Morning on Google Trends
Valentina Vaughn is number one on Google Trends, which is a little odd. Valentina Vaughn is a porn star that was Penthouse Pet of the Month for June 2005. When Valentina Vaughn visited the Howard Stern Show to promote the layout, he declared her one of the hottest girls he’d ever had on the show. Valentina Vaughn has made a number appearances on the Howard Stern Show and the videos are easy enough to find.Trevor Goddard is number two this morning, with no clear indication as to who or what a Trevor Goddard is.The third spot goes to Micheal Evans,…
The Naked Vanessa Anne Hudgens Truth
A small lesson in SEO, the popular media, and nudity on the web. I was trolling Google Trends, as is my wont, when I found a story about a Naked Vanessa Anne Hudgens photo. This photo seemed to be Vanessa Anne Hudgen naked in a bathroom, but it was really just a dirty hotel room. I had never heard of Vanessa Anne Hudgens, nor had I watched Disney’s High School Musical, or High School Musical Two, which set a number of ratings records for cable TV. But I am a guy and a Naked Vanessa Anne Hudgens is as good…
SEO, Digg and Google Trends
SEO-search engine optimaztion, is the art of getting your site noticed by search engines, most importanly, the Google Search Engine. I have been blogging for a while and a couple of months ago I stumbled upon Showtime’s BlogBuzz section. This was a place to ask Showtime to post a link to blogs talking about their show The Tudors. Hey, I had written a post about The Tudors, so I sent them an email. I went from one or two hits a day, to thirty or forty hits a day. I got something like 500 hits from that one link on…