Big ideas and food for thought:
How the social web is helping propagate racism: Online Antisemitism 2.0. “Social Antisemitism” on the “Social Web”
Search geekery:
Note: It won’t be great, but you might still get minimal help. Requires the ability to read between the lines [of bs].
TypoHound – Find eBay Typos and Misspellings
Keywords with two meanings? Inconceivable! | SEO Woman
Project Wombat: the Difficult Reference Question Mailing List
Simple Block segmentation analysis • Tim Nash UK SEO Blog
Hiding the Sphinn Button When a Post Fails to Go Hot
SEOmoz | Does “Query Deserves Diversity” Algorithm Exist at Google?
YOUmoz | Bad Bots Confound Web Analytics By Executing Javascript Tags
Avante Gardens: You Had Me at Hello – Cameron Olthuis
FTD.com Sucks – Cameron Olthuis
On a related note, I was chatting earlier tonight at Yulbiz with a webmaster called Nicolas who apparently ranked on Google.fr for things like ‘dictionnaire’ ‘synonyme’ and ‘cigarette’ . Anyways, this pro was happy that someone else was ranking for his last name as it drew attention away from him; he’d rather the competition not be able to find out about him. Also why he’s not on Facebook. Interesting approach I thought I’d share.
On being a value added affiliate, see these two (especially for SMX Advanced 
):
I’m working on a meatier post to release later this week or early next week. I’ve taken on Ice.com as a client for SEO work (have a look at their Pearl pendants or Diamond Rings and keep an eye out for an interview either here on in the Domaining press on the true story behind the acquisition of Diamond.com) and between that and current clients, am briefly swamped until I get some things sorted.
That said, I wrote what I think is a kickass post on email marketing for linkbait, and because I wrote yet another crummy title, Sphinn didn’t promote it to the front page (http://sphinn.com/story/47807 ) and for whatever reason Rebecca didn’t feel it was main blog worthy …
Tags: Affiliate, Ideas, keywords, Linkbait, links, Reputation Management, social