Chris Snider

Here’s what caught my eye online in the past week:
• From 10,000words.net: 6 ways to create a mobile version of your site.
• Addictomatic creates a custom page with the latest buzz on any topic.
• The Des Moines Register posted our annual pumpkin carving stencils (including Obama, McCain and Palin).
• I’m digging the way trulia.com lets [...]

We all want to boost our rankings in search engines. Fortunately, there are a lot of tools out there to help us achieve that goal.
Keyword suggestion tools (tell you how often people search for your keyword – and how often they search for similar keywords):

Wordtracker’s free keyword suggestion tool. Click on the little chart icon [...]

Are you trying to go green but you don’t want to give up your magazine subscriptions? Zinio.com allows you to view the pages of hundreds of magazines right on your computer screen
And their current Read Green initiative lets you try out a subscription to one of those magazines for free.
I tried out Hawaii magazine, because [...]

The Chicago Cubs opened what I hope will be a long run in the 2008 baseball playoffs Wednesday night. Which gave me a chance to check out how a couple of my favorite newspapers handle big, live sporting events online.
Chicago Tribune

Live coverage: The core of the Trib’s live coverage was it’s From the Cubicle column [...]