Archive for the 'history' Category

SEO “Grad”

January 5, 2008

Keywords? Check. ALT Images? Got it.
I just finished the last lesson of an online course on Search Engine Optimization. How strange, and yet exciting, that a field has emerged that can talk about its “history” back in the 1990s or early 2000s.
The course, conducted by the SEMPO Instititute, was good, although subject to the occasional [...]

The Power of a (Seemingly Simple) Idea

October 5, 2007

In 1967 an economist named John Krutilla published an article in American Economic Review, which he claimed to be the last article that appeared in that journal without math or data.
I can’t vouch for that, but his article–which I learned this past week at a panel discussion at Resources for the Future began as a [...]