Derek Scruggs

Just got an email from Chris White about his latest project: Bad Cupid. Hilarious!

I’m shameless. The day after the Super Bowl I got a lot of search traffic from people searching on variations of “GoDaddy Girl.” Surprisingly, it’s hard to find out who she is, but I found out when reviewing the original discussion that inspired me to write about Go Daddy in the first place. So here’s my shamless attempt to get more traffic.

Introducing  Candice Michelle

I just heard about Google Maps from Brad Feld. In short, it rocks. The interactive nature is extremely cool – much smoother than Mapquest and others. And it also generates a link for you, which has always been one of my pet peeves with Mapquest. Here’s a link to my old address in Chicago: 1859 S. Allport. If you drag down and to the left, you’ll see that I wasn’t too far from downtown – just a 10–15 minute bike ride from the Sears Tower.

(I started to link to my current address, but my wife probably wouldn’t like that. It’s been six years since I lived in Chicago, so that seems safe.)

Another cool thing, to find the Sears Tower address, I just typed “Sears Tower Chicago” into the search box and it generated a list of suggestions and where they are on the map. Awesome!

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about Go Daddy’s Super Bowl ad

Today I got a ton of traffic from Yahoo for people searching on phrases such as:

godaddy ad (I’m in position #6 as of February 7, 2005)
godaddy.com super bowl ad (#9)
godaddy super bowl ad (#1!)
godaddy super bowl (#2)
godaddy super (#4)
super bowl ads godaddy (#4)

It’s interesting to me that I’m even ahead of GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons’ blog. (Interestingly, his blog  is not even in the top 10 when you Google “Bob Parsons blog”, though the #1 page is a bio of Parsons that links to his blog.) 

Next year I think I’ll blog every commercial, especially the ones with scantily clad women. Also the words “Budweiser,” “Pepsi” and “Tom Brady.”

In mindless mimicry of Jeremy, I’ve added Yahoo’s Y!Q tool to my template. Lemme know if you like it.

It’s only an hour or so since the Super Bowl finished and I’m reading the coverage on ESPN’s web site. I came accross this interesting interactive piece on ESPN’s web site. They knew a lot of fans would be frustrated about the Eagle’s poor clock management in the waning moments, so they set up a form for fans to post their comments. Smart move.

Wow! I’m not sure what to think about this. Is it a tipping point or a feature checkoff play by a second-tier search engine?

John Reese just released another of his occasional newsletters. He seems to break all the rules and still succeed. The newsletter announcement came to me on a Saturday morning, and the newsletter itself is a PDF that you have to download from his web site.

Anyway, I wouldn’t even mention it except that he has a great section about how easy it is too waste time screwing around online. His recommendation? Turn off the computer and use a pen and paper! I try to do that every now and then. Often the best catalyst for me is to schedule a meeting with someone at a coffee shop and just take a notebook. Reese’s newsletter inspires me to make it more of a daily habbit. (He said as he typed in yet another pointless blog post. )

Occasionally in this blog you will see links followed by “(Aff. link).” This designates that I have an affiliate relationship with the linked resource. This means I get paid a small commission if you 1) click on the link and 2) purchase the product. If I recommend a product, it’s because I like it. The affiliate relationship doesn’t influence the recommendation; rather, it comes after the fact. In other words, I liked the product first, then checked to see whether the manufacturer/developer/site owner has an affiliate program. You’ll find that the overwhelming majority of links on this site are not affiliate links.

Questions? Concerns? Feel free to comment here or contact me directly.

(Thanks to Dana VanDen Heuvel for inspiring me to get off my butt and add this clarification.)

Finally, a post on Chief Blogging Officer that I read all the way through, and not just because Rageboy is my neighbor. (Seriously. He lives just down the street from me in the same condo/apartment complex in Boulder.) Here’s the payoff: