Launch of ReallyNotALeader.ca

by Luke Rodgers on September 30, 2008

I began work on this site late last week, and am launching it today, with a bit less content than I had hoped, but with a decent start.
ReallyNotALeader aims to make plain the many ways in which Stephen Harper fails (…)

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Slavoj Zizek: McCain is Bush with lipstick

by Luke Rodgers on September 28, 2008

The true message to American voters from the Republican Party, says Zizek, is: “you have the right not to understand. We will sell you this rhetoric about populist revolt and fighting Washington, but really you know we have the backroom (…)

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There goes the country

by Luke Rodgers on September 27, 2008

Watch CBS Videos Online

Google’s confusing and questionable advice on URL rewriting

by Luke Rodgers on September 24, 2008

Kudos to the Google Webmaster Central Blog for what seems like a conscious effort to try to address head-on the concerns of the community over common problem areas like duplicate content and 404s. But their most recent effort, which examines (…)

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Littering in outer space

by Luke Rodgers on September 23, 2008

As if seeing the earth from space was not already uprooting enough (PDF).

First lesson of SEO…

by Luke Rodgers on September 22, 2008

Learn how to spell your domain and keywords

Fido.ca’s usability sin

by Luke Rodgers on September 19, 2008

There are few things that universally qualify as web design FAILs. The esteemed Jakob Nielsen has a list of Top-10 Web Design Mistakes from 1999 which, in web years, is a long time. Long enough that you think people would (…)

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ThoughtWorks in Toronto: Forging a new alliance between business and IT

by Luke Rodgers on September 18, 2008

I attended this morning’s Toronto edition of ThoughtWorks‘ new Quarterly Technology Briefing, on the subject of Forging a New Alliance: Cutting-edge software to power the Business/IT relationship. I was a bit turned off by the title, which sounds kind of (…)

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