I’ve said it many, many times: Never post anything online that you wouldn’t want your mother to see, or you wouldn’t want on a billboard in Times Square.

Or, it should go without saying, you wouldn’t want a potential employer to see. Forbes explains why.

Even though SXSW 2012 doesn’t start till Friday, social media (and especially Twitter) is lousy with SXSW information.

Not going? Sick of seeing SXSW material shoved in your face? Then Lanyrd.com has just the thing for you.

Feedjit is a pretty cool little app that lets you see in real time (and for free) who is visiting your site or blog. Most of the time I’ve seen it in action, it’s on a blog widget that displays to all visitors who’s been there and when.

However, bloggers can still access the information while hiding the widget from view. It’s a pretty simple process that’s detailed in a number of places online. Here’s one of them.

Hmmmm … looks like LOHAD is getting traffic from India, Iceland, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia. And Herndon Virginia. Which is where CIA headquarters is located. I wonder if someone there is trying to understand why LOHAD is getting traffic from in India, Iceland, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia.

Every once in a when when there’s nothing major happening in online marketing news, or I get bored noodling around the latest trade newsletters and blogs, or I’m still trying to wake up in the morning, I Google various phrases that may or may not turn up interesting results.

This morning I Googled “ridiculous internet marketing” and came up with this December 2011 article from ZD Net. It’s worth the read, if only to remind us about the idiots out there who help make internet marketing a profession that’s respected about as much as used car salesmen and telemarketers.

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
—St. Augustine