For the first time, U.S. businesses will spend more of their ad dollars in digital/new media than in newspapers and magazines.

I'm only surprised that it took this long. Who pays any attention to ads in newspapers or magazines these days? What's more, who buys that way?

Back in the day, people actually used to pick up the phone and order items they saw advertised in magazines. Or they would send away for something because of an ad they saw in the newspaper. Do people still do that?

The New York State Senate website is now powered by Drupal. It's a feature-rich, dynamic, interactive, multimedia Web 2.0 site. The performance is smooth and quick, and I am sure that there is plenty of secure access control involved. I'm glad to see that my tax dollars are being deployed wisely.

I'm going to share a link-building strategy (not specific tactics) that has worked exceedingly well for me when it comes to driving traffic to a website. This will not work for everyone because, frankly, few can produce content of high enough quality to make this strategy feasible.

(If you think you're tough enough to hang with this, you need to keep reading.)

It's not like I need another browser. Before installing Chrome, my sweet Fedora 11 rig was equipped with (in order of favorite to least favorite) Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Safari, and the ultra-crappy Internet Explorer (under Wine -- why does anyone use this piece of junk? Oh, right, because they're under some kind of spell that makes them blind to the vast world beyond Microsoftie stuff... anyway...). I also keep Lynx around for fun. To me the true test of good web design is this: It's worth browsing the site in Lynx; the site works.

So anyway, I don't need another browser.

This is very interesting. I'm in my sixth week of not being able to type. While I have been out of the game, some enterprising person has taken it upon themselves to build a bunch of icky links to my sites. These are links from spammy Viagara pages, cigarette vendors and a couple of porn pages that even make me blush.

Do these unwanted "bad neighborhood" links hurt SEO? Yes, it seems. Combined with my inability to add fresh content, it may have been very mildly effective (search engine traffic across my sites is off by 14 percent from the monthly norm).

Another big, beautiful Drupal site... at least these guys got one thing right. Who needs to tax the disgustingly rich or cut defense spending when the people's website is so cool.

This blog is on hold for a few weeks. I injured my hand and can't type. Check back.

Wouldn't it be funny if the script kiddies gained control of the site and left a message like that? That would totally make my day.

Come on guys, you can do better than this!

Some script kiddy's botnet is slamming the site again this morning. They're trying to make comments, trying to inject something, I guess. Maybe it's just a super-weak DoS attack. I don't know yet.

I think everything is pretty solid right now but I haven't looked at the server. If the site is slow or crashes, this is the reason.