A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…

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My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! (I use a frame to embed the podcast into this post. Some RSS readers and some email clients do not show that. If you see nothing after “The Podcast,” please click through to t…

How often does your team conduct a retrospective? If you’re like most of my clients, not often enough. When I ask why the team doesn’t retrospect at least once every couple of weeks, these teams tell me many reasons: They don&#8…

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google said with SEO...

John Mueller has one of his Google lines again, he said in response to someone trying to pick the right answer for an SEO question - he said, "Sometimes there is no absolute right answer -- but you can choose one, and make it the right answ…

The Google Merchant Center AI Performance Insights which launched in July and has begun expanding to more regions earlier this month has also gained new metrics. AI Search intent, AI Search terms and AI attributes have been added to the Goo…

About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with t…

About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network . Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow , but we quickly landed on Off B…

It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed It's been one of those mon…

Yes I will be doing a podcast with him. From Wikipedia: Kevin Roose&#8230;is an American author and journalist. He is the author of three books, and is a technology columnist and podcast host for The New York Times. He wrote a book about Li…

1. Crime and drunkenness map of England and Wales (that was then, this is now). 2. Cesar Aira says he will stop writing. 3. Toward a post-cultural state? 4. Madrid has great PISA scores. 5. Firms as foragers. 6. Asimov Press is back. The po…

A spot of good news for Britain. Next has won its appeal and may go on paying warehouse workers more than &#8220;equal value&#8221; retail workers. I&#8217;ve written about this case in Equality Act 2010, The Equal Pay Madness Just Got Madd…