This was a fun conversation, and should be really informative for local businesses, too. I shared a lot of how Cari and I think and what we do to build her real estate brand online and around town.

Mike Blumenthal@mikeblumenthal.bsky.social · 23h ago

What does "brand" mean for a local business & which tactics move the needle now that answers are generated not ranked? Join Paula French @joyhawkins.bsky.social Andrew Shotland, @seosavvyagent.com & @gsterling.bsky.social & me to explore tactics that helped the most www.nearmedia.co/ep-269-tacti...

cc: @rustybrick.com

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3d ago

The Google homepage is doing a cool thing right now if you search “eclipse 2026” (or certain variants thereof)

Flying into Seattle is undefeated. This is Mt. Adams in the distance, then pan to Mt St. Helens in the distance, then Mt. Rainier up close. 😍

this is really good (as per usual 😊)

Cyrus Maxx@zyppy.com · 2w ago

New: These SEO Strategies Drive 90% of Your AI Visibility Asking if GEO/SEO are the same isn't the right question. If you tweak traditional SEO, you can use the same strategies+tactics for • AI Inclusion • AI Citations • AI Recommendations signal.zyppy.com/p/seo-strate...

At a real estate conference that's starting in 5 minutes. Looks like SEO and AI is a big theme this week. I'm betting I'll hear "no one uses Google anymore" within the first 10 minutes. 🙄

The absolute joy on the faces of kids riding the shuttle to Disneyland 🥰🥰🥰

Live music is my love language. 🎶❤️

17 straight years that U2-A Diary didn't make his list. 😭 Maybe next year....

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

Can't believe Glen Hansard died 😭 absolute legend

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

New Jersey just became the third state to curb personalized pricing. “No consumer should have to pay more for groceries because a company knows what they’re searching for online, what their income is, the makeup of their household, or where they go,” said CR's Grace Gedye.

New Jersey becomes third state to curb personalized pricing

The Fair Price Protection Act is the first law of its kind to allow consumers to take action when their rights have been violated Trenton,…

advocacy.consumerreports.org

Hear me out: we could solve the data center problem by requiring their respective executives to live on-site

You haven't lived until you've heard 20,000 people singing this together as if their lives depended on it.

Live music is my love language. 🎶

It's so weird that he wants Meta to be a world-leading AI company, while the rest of us just want to see what our family and friends are sharing. Has there ever been a bigger disconnect between a company and its customers?

Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.

Meta launches a Meta Model API, whose pricing Zuckerberg says will be "aggressive and attractive" at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI and Anthropic models (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

OMG Cape Verde

Stu Holden sounds like Mary Carrillo to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

INCREDIBLE GOAL !!!!!!

Every so often, my "matt mcgee" alerts will surface something really old from the @searchengineland.bsky.social archives. Today, it was this article I wrote 17 years ago, when the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson knocked Google News offline. searchengineland.com/michael-jack...

Top of the 7th, Angels have the bases loaded, tying run at the plate, one out, and Mariners' fans are... doing the wave?!?!? JFC

my god

🎉 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY 🎉 💙 Celebrate with a GifCities GifGram, filled with classic, sparkling, nostalgia-soaked GIFs from the early web. 🧢 Send it to someone special or create your own custom GIF greeting for the Dads in your life. Share it, or make your own GIF greeting at gifcities.org/gram/

Happy Father's Day. Here's an excerpt from a 2002 essay by my dad, Vincent Mosco, who passed away two years ago. It's about how tech bros ignore history and repeat it again and again. carleton.ca/ces/wp-conte...

Gmail didn't exist when I was 13. Darren out here posting for the youth. 😅

Darren Shaw@whitespark.ca · 2mo ago

Still using a ridiculous Gmail address you made when you were 13? 😬 Good news. Google says you may now be able to change it. Here’s how to check if you have the option:

Concert tickets should be sold based on height.

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests

"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

404media.co

NGL, this is pretty damn accurate. I live in "Grape" region, if you're curious. ~200 wineries within an hour's drive. No, I don't drink wine.

WSDOT@wsdot.wa.gov · 2mo ago

Downloadable file for those who want to hang this up on the fridge (plus a slightly updated map with more Easter eggs): www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot...

I'm not a hockey expert by any means, but after Carolina steamrolled my Flyers, I told my son, "I don't know how they don't win it all. They never make a bad decision on the ice. It's almost perfect hockey." That was a masterclass tonight. Props to the Hurricanes. Great team.

Question for my non-real estate friends and acquaintances: Are you open to it?

Real Estate News@realestatenews.com · 2mo ago

The need* to post every day on social media makes some people say/do some really questionable things, IMO. I'm talking about my fellow marketers/SEOs as much as I'm talking about real estate agents. (*also, you don't need to post every day, it'll be okay)