Day two of SES San Jose was a significant improvement over day one. The session I attended with Tim Ash, the leader in landing page optimization, was facinating. I loved his thoughts on ways to approach this amazingly important aspect of SEM. I could really see how powerful of a subject this was as the room was completely full with many people standing just to see him speak.

After his session, and the extremely lacking lunch, the keynote session began. This came with high hopes as the speaker...
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If I had to explain SES San Jose's first day I would definitely describe it as underwhelming. Of the sessions that I attended there was very little actionable discussion going on. Much of what I heard was very high level explanation of what things are. There wasn't a whole lot of new best practices. I was hoping that maybe i just missed the good sessions but after speaking with a few colleagues here I learned that I wasn't alone.  This can be expected however at such a large conference such a...
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There is no getting around it, America is fat, not just fat, morbidly obese. It's disgusting, and I feel like I can say that without prejudice because i was one of those useless fatties. A short 7 months ago I was tipping the scale at 310 and doing nothing about it except eating and drinking more. I finally have gotten my act together and am down 75 lbs to a more healthy manageable weight (thanks to Jumpstart Medicine). As an avid food lover I am constantly watching the Food Network learning ...
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When it comes to listening to music that I don't actually own in my library nothing beats podcasts in my eyes. However, those will often get old or sometimes I just want some variety. When this happens, and it happens often, I turn to Last.fm. I of course have tried Pandora, like so many others, but the features and breadth of library in Last.fm just make for a much more enjoyable experience. First, I feel their recommendation engine is much better, more often giving me songs that relate to t...
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This is a little bit of a non sequitur for me, but I love things that are generally hilarious and this is it to the fullest extent. As I was calmly hanging out on my couch last night watching "Rescue Me" when I happened to catch a glimpse of what I thought was a cat falling off a table. Now being that I am a DVR aficionado I was fast forwarding. I immediately hit rewind to confirm my earlier suspicion. Sure enough it was correct. It was a commercial for the cult hit "It's Always Sunny in Phil...
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