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Hats off to you, and everyone else in the legal profession, deserve a bloody medal.

I was about to say I was a paltry 15 on Friday, but seemed to have increased to 22, not sure why!

Maybe I'll get a badge if I get to 50

It's an interesting one. We recently rebuilt our review system, because to be honest it was rubbish We didn't allow negative feedback because when we did it was abused, and the positive was obvious self promo stuff.

So I spent a long time looking at other review sites, trying to find all the best ones, and went to speak to the guy that took on Trip Adviser and forced them to readdress their review system.

As a result, I think we made ours on My Local Services as fair as humanely possible, but the quality of review sites out there is amazing, and I say the majority we looked at were floored, with blatant unmoderated self promo, or legally worrying slander and abuse.

Paying someone to do fake reviews is no great surprise, but I suspect these will be pretty simple to spot, and no doubt a lot will be poor English

How you get a search engine to filter against bad reviews though is going to be a tough one, as Google is actively encouraging review based content as we move into a brave new social search world.

Qantas must be licking its wounds after damaging industrial action. It's an interesting set up in Australia:

"Fair Work Australia, the national industrial tribunal, has the power to suspend or terminate industrial action"

and they decided that the unions had to return to the negotiating and come to an agreement.

"Fair Work Australia said its ruling had taken into account its concern for the vulnerability of the tourism industry"
BBC News - Qantas resumes flights as court orders end to dispute

So sounds like politics came to the rescue. I bet British Airways wish they had similar support during their industrial action nightmare in 2010.

Quieter today, and have run out of inspiration...

man walks into a bar... ouch...

They certainly work, no question of that, but I think it's a risk if you apply it to a site that is your revenue generator. People do 100mph up and down the motorway everyday without getting caught. If my baby bus could do a 100, you can guarantee I'd get nicked.


I think Grey hat is a way of life. What was deemed safe last week, is this week deemed a little iffy and becomes grey hat. I would imagine most of us have followed some grey hat practices at some point.

But I'd wouldn't knowingly use Blackhat, although I've no doubt research any site that's been going a while, it will throw up discrepancies.

Don't understand the Panda favoring blackhat comment though, how do you mean, or can you give an example?

Only just found this, supposedly a monitor of how effectiveness your social networking is. Looks interesting although apparently I'm not very sociable looking at my score

Anyone else use it or have any views on it?

Klout | The Standard for Influence

Pay for the directors of the UK's top businesses rose 50% over the past year, a pay research company has said.

Incomes Data Services (IDS) said this took the average pay for a director of a FTSE 100 company to just short of

10 posts now Simon, you get those signature links populated

Quoting the bottom of your post, I think maybe they will, or at least evolve into something more professional, I think in their current format, they have had their day, especially after all the Google shake ups this year?