The Accession Media Blog

Our own Matt Tarsi has been quoted in a rather humorous piece on InfoWorld.com regarding the various "cults" of the tech world. Of course, Matt's is "The Temple of Drupal," our favorite open source content management system.

The PageRank formula is changing again. You might have heard that Google recently was granted a patent based on the "reasonable surfer" idea. For those of you in need of a quick refresh, a reasonable web surfer is someone given a random webpage who keeps clicking links forward to other pages without clicking back. This person eventually gets tired and goes to another random page.

By now anyone with a television or a radio (or anyone who watched their Superbowl ad) knows that the acronym KGB no longer represents the defunct Russian intelligence agency. These days KGB stands for "Knowledge Generation Bureau", the new "ask anything" mobile texting service that has been doing the traditional media marketing equivalent of carpet bombing. KGB ads are everywhere - television, radio, major sporting events, billboards, and just about any other place you can think of.

Confession - my last posting wasn't just a spur of the moment thing.  It was the results of a little prep work I did for an appearance on FoxBusiness.com's daily live webcast.  Fox reporter Kathryn Tuggle interviewed me for her article titled "Get Listed in Today's Mobile 'Yellow Pages.'"  I greatly enjoyed the interview and Kathryn thought highly enough of me to invite me in to be on the webcast.