Monday, March 16, 2009
Another new site, this time for a firm of brickworkers and scaffolders based in Rushden.
Of particular interest to me (I watch a lot of C4 Timeteam on the TV) was the fact that as well as providing scaffolding in the East Midlands, and brickwork they have worked on refurbishing 17th and 18th century brickwork at Merton Hall, St Johns College in Cambridge. Old building facsinate me and I would love to be talented enough to be able to basically rebuild a 17th / 18th century building - mind you I was reading in my local paper the other day about a stone mason that has worked on Peterborough Cathedral for about 30 years ! Now to be able to work on something like that and know that you great grandchildren will be able to look at the work and know that you did it, that must realy be something special.
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Of particular interest to me (I watch a lot of C4 Timeteam on the TV) was the fact that as well as providing scaffolding in the East Midlands, and brickwork they have worked on refurbishing 17th and 18th century brickwork at Merton Hall, St Johns College in Cambridge. Old building facsinate me and I would love to be talented enough to be able to basically rebuild a 17th / 18th century building - mind you I was reading in my local paper the other day about a stone mason that has worked on Peterborough Cathedral for about 30 years ! Now to be able to work on something like that and know that you great grandchildren will be able to look at the work and know that you did it, that must realy be something special.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I have just been reading Matt Cutts (the head of Google's Webspam team) blog on sponsored conversations which I found interesting.
It seems that Google are looking for blogs where people are paid to make posts to their blogs as they feel that this people are posting to influence the results on the Google search engines. Google seem to be saying that it is ok to be paid to post on blogs if you use a nofollow attribute on the link but I wonder how many people know that this is *required* by Google or that their blogs may be marked so that they "are not trusted in Google’s algorithms"
This led to to thinking - perhaps it is better that I have never been asked to post an entry on this blog that I am paid for, in fact I have never been asked to post an entry for free either. That may be part of the reason why the postings are few and far between, but I believe that if I am spending time talking about something then it's got to be worth saying and most of what I come across on the net nowadays is not really worth talking about.
If you run your own blog have a look at Matts post and see what you think.
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It seems that Google are looking for blogs where people are paid to make posts to their blogs as they feel that this people are posting to influence the results on the Google search engines. Google seem to be saying that it is ok to be paid to post on blogs if you use a nofollow attribute on the link but I wonder how many people know that this is *required* by Google or that their blogs may be marked so that they "are not trusted in Google’s algorithms"
This led to to thinking - perhaps it is better that I have never been asked to post an entry on this blog that I am paid for, in fact I have never been asked to post an entry for free either. That may be part of the reason why the postings are few and far between, but I believe that if I am spending time talking about something then it's got to be worth saying and most of what I come across on the net nowadays is not really worth talking about.
If you run your own blog have a look at Matts post and see what you think.
