This is simply a blog post to test how quickly Pingvine updates my @BrentDPayne twitter account with this post. If it does it almost instantly then we (Tribune) will move @chicagobreaking to Pingvine to give people instant access to the breaking news versus needing to wait 30 minutes with TwitterFeed.

Testing . . . 1 . […]

I believe I can prove that Google is indexing pages that have no inbound links. Thus indexing pages NOT via a typical site crawl. While I can’t prove what they are doing to discover links outside of a typical site crawl, I can prove that they are at least doing it.

Review this query:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aorigin-www.baltimoresun.com&pws=0

And as of […]

I received a cryptic direct message today from Len Kendall (aka @LenKendall) via Twitter tonight. Keep in mind that this is during the time that there are rampant spam DMs floating around the Twittersphere…so I almost didn’t even click on the link. But I’d had quite a few conversations with Len so I thought . […]

I was craving some spaghetti tonight, so I did what most 32 year old males do (cough, cough) . . . I asked my Twitter followers to help me out.

Now, first . . . you have to know a thing or two about my twitter followers.

They are the best.

They are the best.

They are the best.

I’ll […]

It was a typical Tuesday night and Brent was on Twitter.com being strange as ever.

Then TheNanny612 said a hilarious tweet that made Brent laugh and respond in a similar fashion.

However TheNanny612 was even more clever and she re-responded back to BrentDPayne.

This made BrentDPayne cry and he shared this fact with her. TheNanny612 found great joy […]

I’m getting some friends and co-workers of mine telling me that the http://www.brentdavidpayne.com/bleet/images/Top-News-Sites-Stats.pdf PDF I created about the different newspaper.coms and how they are doing year over year is getting passed around quite a bit out there. I can’t tell because I don’t have analytics tracking on a PDF page. I guess that is […]

I noticed today as I was looking at one of Tribune’s smaller newspaper websites (I’m the SEO Manager for Tribune) that there was a significant spike in traffic from Microsoft. It made me take notice of them for once on the pretty little graph within Omniture. Then I thought, “Hmm. I wonder if […]

I am trying out Twubble for the first time ever and I see and interesting message pop-up on the screen.

“Twitter is taking longer than expected. If it doesn’t respond soon, refresh and try again. If Twitter is working and you still see this message, contact @crazybob”

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The funny part about this isn’t the message it’s the […]

My uncle use to love screwing with our heads as children. He’d be driving along in the Volare and we’d be all rowdy (no seatbelts, half of us in the back cargo area) and he’d say, “Hey boys! How’d you like to go by some ice cream?” We’d get all excited (of course) and […]

I’m constantly torn between having one personality online or having several. ‘Back in the day’, which is until 2005 when the wheels on my life can flying out from under me, I had about 30 profiles on line. I kept a spreadsheet of the personalities. I assigned them children, types of cars they […]