I just wrapped up 4 days of blog coverage for Search Marketing Standard at SES New York. You can read about the 16 sessions I attended online, and check my personal blog for additional color commentary. All-in-all, the event was good.

Since I first attended SES in Boston, I’ve noticed the event has changed along with the industry. For starters, the overall energy level has waned as the SES appeals to a more broad and corporate audience. Back in the early days, you could sense the nervous energy and appreciated the “insider information” now outlawed by legal departments.

Today, I saw a probably the most extraordinary juxtaposition of stories that I’ve can ever remember seeing.

This morning, I read Bill Simmons “Save Our Sonics” column which began:

In six years of writing for ESPN.com, this is the longest piece I’ve ever sent to my editors — nearly 15,000 words of anguished e-mails from Sonics fans around the country.

If you’re looking for a good laugh, please read the worst search engine marketing article ever.

Lisa Peyton of “The Generator Group”, a Portland-Based Executive Search / Staffing company and strong SEMpdx supporter, sends me a link to a very interesting interview she did with a recruiter who uses the Second Life Platform to recruit job candidates. A fascinating idea and a great example of out-of-the box thinking.

Read the interview.

I’m a fan of Ezinearticles.com. Really. Or, I used to be.

As Stoney deGeyter pointed out in an earlier article, their “editorial” controls have become real nitpicky…to the point where they are almost a bad joke.

Instead of preaching any more, I’m going to post my entire correspondence with them concerning the submission of my article “The Chattahoochee Hill Country Domain Rush“…a story that made the front page of Sphinn.