What to do when you get a “mysqld dead but subsys locked” on EC2
I recently had this problem on this blog (which is hosted on Amazon EC2) so I thought I would collate the research I found into one place to help anyone else that has had this problem in the past. I’m running MySQL on the same instance as the website at the moment, I know this [...]
Setting up Apache server with VirtualHosts to run multiple version of WordPress
You can setup apache server to run multiple versions of WordPress, and multiple websites with a single Amazon EC2 instance and if the traffic is below a certain threshold its all for free! Apache VirtualHosts is a service within http that allows multiple sites to exist on one hosting environment. Simply put, VirtualHosts redirects users [...]
Tutorial: Setting up an SEO link checker bookmarklet
A bookmarklet is a neat little piece of code that you can drop into the bookmark toolbar in your browser that gives you one click access to all kinds of interesting information. I want to show you a quick tutorial for building your own bookmarklet to check the number of backlinks coming into any website [...]
Did you know searches for “rocky horror picture show” increase by 40% on halloween?
Because this is an SEO blog I wanted to give this stat back to the world of actionable SEO… So here goes: The greatest thing that Google has been able to do is build a computer system that rewards serendipity – I spend a lot of time planning keywords for optimisation and this is a [...]
Mobile coding disruption is here: Application Craft!
Application Craft is a 100% in-browser, coding and deployment environment for all kinds of native mobile applications. – Watch the video Creating mobile apps in a single, easy to use environment has long been a wish of mine. I am of the opinion that native application coding has a limited shelf life. I could never [...]
What I learnt from Ross Hudgens about the importance of an active community.
Google Penguin and Google Panda, the latest updates from Google are changing how they measure who gets ranked highly and who gets pushed down to invisibility. These updates look into two areas of content marketing: the quality of the content you create and the quality of the links that you get. In theory at least that sounds like [...]
4 Twitter Tools I Couldn’t Live Without
As a social media platform, Twitter works really well on its own, but there are many tools out there that will also help you to get the most out of your Twitter account. With the sheer volume of information that is distributed across Twitter each day, many users may find it difficult to manage their [...]
The xx – interactive share map with IE
Check out The xx collaboration with Internet Explorer. It’s a really nice interactive map of all the people around the world sharing the website in real-time. You can listen to select tracks on the site. Whilst it’s not quite as ingenious and disruptive as Chrome’s The Wilderness Downtown is it still a valiant effort as cool-ifing (not [...]
Samsung in major blogger relations fail
It’s seems like a daily issue – some company somewhere has messed up and they are getting panned on social media. Most of the time these issues are significant for the brand, like this customer service issue or the community upset by poor use of language, but rarely though do these issues reach further into [...]
Matt Lakey and The Whatever album
Just read a very positive review of my friend Matt Lakey’s new album from Americana UK. I thought that I would throw my two-pence into the ring. Generally speaking I’m a big fan of folky, country alt, soft rock music: Ryan Adams, Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, Ocean Colour Scene etc, equally I’m a big hater [...]
