Hey gang,
What I'm about to do is a shameful thing, a faux pas that I will heretofore call an igruffusa, after the act itself. But, it does give me a chance to share what's going on this term, so I will do it shamelessly.
I've embarked on my great pursuit of a deeper practical understanding of information technology, I'm enrolled in a website design course, and a course on information retrieval systems . For Info Retrieval Systems, we are working on search engine optimization, and figuring out what makes a website more or less likely to be found in a web search. We made up, as a class, a nonsense word, for which there were no websites (harder than you think!) and each student group was charged with making a page and getting it to show up on Google and Bing. Where it ranks in relation to other students' pages determines our score.
For anyone who's interested in pretty basic SEO or Search Engine Optimization, check out this site that our instructor recommended: The Beginner's Guide to SEO. (Psssst, linking from other pages is one of the ways to boost your rating, hence this post. Also, click-through has something to do with ranking, too, so click on that igruffusa link up top and help a sister out.)
In other news, today is my birthday. AND, when are we having our next Bookaneers meeting? I was talking us up at some recent iSchool events. Don't make me look like a liar, team.
