I work with WordPress on a daily basis. My team has over a dozen WordPress sites running on our servers for theme testing, testing site designs, eCommerce sites, government sites, ect. As you can imagine, dealing with comment spam is a major issue. Several weeks ago, I decided to focus…

This is my favorite, and easiest, backlink strategy that I use for all of my clients because it works extremely well in 95% of cases. The Link Reclamation strategy. The concept here is pretty simple, You will look for URLs that have mentioned your brand name but haven’t linked back. …

There are three things you should know leaving school. How to perform “top-down” design. How to perform “bottom-up” design. How to perform “object decomposition.” Top down: Write a general statement of the problem in a box at the top of a page of paper. Write sub-problems in boxes in operational…

It is better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six This is the mentality of the police. That is better for them to kill someone and have a trial than take a moment and confirm that someone is a threat. on average 60–70 police are killed…

The history of racist brand names and brand logos is intimately related to the role Black Americans have played in the food system. To start with the basics, both Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben represent specific caricatures of African Americans that would’ve been associated with food. “Aunt Jemima” is a…

The loss of community from technology (among other things) made many people who feel alienated from the world at large struggle with their identity. The majority of these are typically white, male, and are part of the crumbling middle class that is, in reality, part of the lower class. This…

I have been noticing a trend of people bringing up the LA riots and the politics surrounding Rodney King, along with those who specifically bring up the rooftop Korean shop owners protecting their businesses from the looters. The fact that everyone seems to be missing the entire point of the…

Many people, when they hear the phrase “Defund the police” assume that those saying it mean to “Eliminate the police force entirely.” Thats not the case for the vast majority. They are saying that the current system is broken, that we need comprehensive changes, and we need those changes on…

Black Lives Matter Protests Against Police Brutality have been going strong for over a week now in all 50 states and over 13 countries across the world. This is a list of just some of the things that the protests have accomplished as of 6/7/2020 (I will try to keep…