Chasing Sunset

Aside from an altruistic desire to make the lives of people who may or may not visit your site or need to refer to your pages frequently a little bit easier, why go to all of the trouble of infusing your html with lots of named anchors? One of the aspects of the Web that makes it so amazing is the low barrier to authorship and the high likelihood that a given web visitor to your site is both a content consumer and provider rolled into one as compared to the incredibly low probability that someone reading a news paper is, for instance, a newspaper publisher.

Providing a high degree of “linking granularity” within pages on your site is in your own best interest, because it allows visitor-authors to comment on or react to specific portions of your pages and share links to exactly what sparked their interest/ire/curiosity/agreement with others. That translates into a higher quality of discourse with your readers.

Following this line of thought to it’s natural conclusion, it occurred to me that the ideal practice would be not merely to place anchors at regular intervals throughout the HTML source, but, above and beyond a default set of hard coded anchors, to provide a mechanism whereby visitors could make their own bookmarkable and shareable named anchors wherever they liked within my pages.

Being an entrepreneur is about creation; creating something from nothing. It’s about creating value, cash flow, opportunity, and ultimately creating the lifestyle you always hoped and planned for.

Is your business getting you where you wanted to go? Are you running the business, or is it running you?

Every year at the National Arts Festival, the New Voices production showcases the best in young dancing talent. Jason Von Berg went to check out the show and chatted to some of the choreographers involved.

Since the arrival of social media web services like Twitter and FriendFeed bloggers have for the most part been in a quandary in how to deal with them. A lot of bloggers have been of the attitude that the two services are taking traffic away from the blogs because of the fact that the conversation seems to be happening in those places rather than on the blogs. As well others in the blogging world feel that services like Twitter and FriendFeed hurt the blogs because more original content is going there – after all Twitter is called a micro-blogging service – right?

The more that move to these new conversation methods the better it is for those of us that believe that blogging is the the new news and conversation medium. For us this means less competition and less noise for us to fight our way through in order to get through to the readers. This of course is my first reason why bloggers should be thankful for services like Twitter and FriendFeed – they help clear out the noise makers.

For the first time ever, MK warriors battle DC superheroes with an all-new fighting system.