Colorado's Favorite River Dog Injured In Fall

All together now: Awwww, poor Baxter!! Read about Baxter's fall and subsequent surgery at Colorado's Favorite Rafting Company's website. I've met this wolf-dog and was heartbroken to hear about his injuries. Go read the story and send Jim and Kelly a couple bucks to help cover the expenses.

I'm pleased to report that after following some of my suggestions to help LostPaddleRafting.com in the search engines, the site is doing better, and gaining some traffic. Those of us who do this for a living know that none of that comes overnight, but immediate improvement is encouraging for the web site owner.

Oh yeah, here's the Whitewater Rafting Colorado blog, too. Keep watching it and hopefully Jim will keep us all updated on the state of the river and rafting.

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Changing face of web media

In the course of submitting my client's podcasts made from his articles, I found some changes in the podcast/blog world going on.

I've heard some rumblings the last few months about video - ads, YouTube, etc. Going to my quite lengthy list of podcast directories slammed it home for me. A few of them, I'll guess the number is between 5-10%, have gone to all video submissions.

The sad thing about those directories is that the videos are not of informational value. You can only watch the asian guy do his creepy dance so many times, and you won't learn anything from it at all.
To my tastes, vid is for a visual demonstration of something we want to, you know, LEARN. It's why I like podcasts so much. I don't think end-users have the equipment for video yet either. Besides viewing on line of course. Shoot my MP3 player is only about a year old!