Not My Mother's Blog

As a web content writer, one of the things that I try to keep up with is the search terms people use when looking for something on the internet. It’s pretty important when you’re publishing web content because when you know the words that people enter into that little search box, you can try to [...]

Google claims that their new Chrome browser was designed with users in mind – but Thomas Claburn’s article over at Information Week makes me seriously question that assertion. Quite a few of the browser’s features seem tailor-made to advance Google’s business interests rather than those of their users. For instance: Rather than blocking popup ads, [...]

Take 1 – the new Wal*Mart back to school ad (girl’s version) Mom is sitting in the back of a classroom watching as teen boy grabs his laptop and heads for the front of the classroom. In the voice over, she talks about her son starting out in a new school, how she’d love to [...]

Over at WomensVoicesforChange, Chris Lombardi wondered: (We do wonder if the Newsday editors intentionally mis-heard Madsen, and if she meant what we know: that the world is telling us not to get old.) Our women are 64 to 94 living vibrant lives, when the world is telling you to get old. .. Oh, no, no, [...]