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Flogton

Sad news came this weekend with the passing of Seve Ballesteros.  He was an inspiration to many golfers, including to me in a small way.  Seve was renowned for hitting the ball into all kinds of horrible trouble and fearlessly trying to recover.  Usually, he did just that and he won numerous titles playing from places many golfers didn’t even know were part of the golf course.  That’s the inspiration to me although my success rate in recovering is a tiny fraction of what Seve’s was.

Seve showed a few things about golf to the world: that it builds character, that it’s really REALLY hard even for the best in the world, and that the greatest triumphs come after the greatest adversity.  Which is why I find this morning’s report about Flogton in the Times so frustrating – and there’s a business point in there as well. Continue reading

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The Shotgun Approach

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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry this morning about a situation one of my clients is having. They, like many other sites, get a fair amount of traffic from Google. In their case, because they’re a news site, Google News is a key traffic driver as well. A week ago, with no notice or changes to the site, their articles disappeared from Google News and their traffic dropped precipitously. What’s really weird is that the site is still fully indexed in regular Google – only News is affected.
Why am I telling you this? Because while the cause is still unknown we have an idea of what’s doing it and there are larger thoughts beyond our specific case that I want to share. Continue reading

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What Boxing Tells Us About Broadband

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Growing up, I used to follow boxing.  It was pretty easy to be a fan – there weren’t a lot of weight classes, there was a single sanctioning body that mattered so there was only one champion in each weight class, and it was on free TV (although pay TV didn’t exist yet) every week. In short, it was simple and fan friendly.  A high-quality product was made available each week and promoters and TV networks did everything they could to get me to watch.

What does this have to do with the broadband (and wireless for that matter) business? Continue reading

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