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Call me Ishmael (H. Melville & Carly Rae Jepsen)

Wednesday, 22 August 2012 by Paul O'Brien

It’s been far too long since I’ve written a post and we’ve been working so hard on building Cospace that I needed a break. In a moment of weakness, I had a song stuck in my head. Clarke the Intern saved me, and introduced me to a whole new world of Call Me Maybe remixes.

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Is Your Site (not your blog) Run By WordPress? Perhaps it Should Be

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 by Paul O'Brien

WordPress – The celebrated blog platform, favored by search marketers for its amazing degree of customization and built-in optimization, comes in two flavors: Hosted by wordpress.com: Gets you started as quickly and easily as the perhaps more well known hosted, and Google owned, Blogger. The WordPress platform provided by wordpress.org: The downloadable version of WordPress

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Pop Labs Conversion Closing Rap

Sunday, 06 April 2008 by Paul O'Brien

Poetic Prophet, Chuck, a Pop Labs super star and viral marketing genius (though they deal in SEO and search marketing) is turning interactive marketing concepts into original music. Here, a rap about making the right choices in your online marketing campaigns to increase not only traffic but the conversions you get. I’m looking forward to

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Buddy Holly – Rave On

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish to accompany an article I had written about the lyrics to Don McLean’s American Pie for the first website I created in 1996, The Octopus’s Garden. Republished here for the sake of an archive of that article. FEBRUARY 3, 1959: “Clear Lake, Iowa (UPI)- Following an appearance before 1000 fans at

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American Pie – The analysis and interpretation of Don McLean’s song lyrics

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish, what follows is an article I wrote out of a passion I had for the tune and lyrics, for a music history class. The republishing, here, is to retain as an archive, the history of that original; it was of a few music related articles I used in the creation of

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The relationship between John Lennon and the number 9

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish for the first website I created in 1996, The Octopus’s Garden. Republished here for the sake of an archive of that article. “Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9…“ Another of the Beatles recurring themes involved songs written by John Lennon. It seems that Lennon had a fascination with

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The Meaning of The Twelve Days of Christmas

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish for the first website I created in 1996, The Octopus’s Garden. Republished here for the sake of an archive of that article. One of our fondest Christmas carols, that which sings of lords leaping and turtle doves, may have little known roots in the Christian faith. As much as Christmas remains, fundamentally,

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