I noticed the act of Googling "Kurt Maddox" has spiked lately as evidenced from the number of visits to this blog coming from just such a Google search.  This is atypical because this blog is more often visited as a result of a "Gracie Maddox" search.  Yes, at age 12 my daughter already enjoys Google dominance over her equally ambitious but less regarded father! lol!

So, I did what any red-blooded Web 2.0 American would do and I took a look at the Google search results to see what inquiring minds might learn from such an endeavor.  Happily, most of the top search results are, in fact, referencing this humble blogger.  This has been the case since the very beginning of the search engine phenomenon so I wouldn't have expected any other Kurt Maddox to usurp my commanding early search engine result prowess.

Since I hadn't Googled myself in awhile, I took a little stroll through my search results.  Such activities are sort of like turning the pages of a scrap book for we members of the self-anointed Digerati.  I long ago accepted the reality that you can't completely control your digital slim trail if you're an active blogger, social networker and commenter to various digital media.  So, it is mostly fun to go back and read the comments that are the most highly indexed results.

I wrote a response to a Fast Company post that is always right up there in the top results right after Hurricane Katrina.  I'm proud of that comment so I'm not displeased to see it in my top 10 results.  I was a bit disappointed to see that the link to the Katherine Q. Seelye article originally published in the New York Times has slipped to the second page.  So, I demand that everyone reading this blog IMMEDIATELY Google "Kurt Maddox", locate the link to the New York Times article "Wall Street Journal Unveils a Saturday Edition", which quotes moi concerning my opinion at the time of having the stock market invade my weekends in the form of a "Saturday Edition".

Once you've found the article, click it.  Then, go back to the search page and click it again.  Please repeat this action multiple times to help me get this link back on the first page of search results! Ha! Ha!

Seriously, this could be a great experiment in the power of tBlog to move a Google search ranking! Isn't that a great Tom Sawyer-esque idea?

Google Link to Google Search Page With NYT Article Link

If you're not impressed with my logic, then here's the direct link to this blast from the past:

Wall Street Journal Unveils Saturday Edition, by Katherine Q. Seelye

...and if you're really not succumbing to my maniacal mind control techniques, here's the actual quote:

Some objected to the concept of a business paper on Saturday. "The Wall Street Journal works precisely because we DON'T have to read it on the weekend," wrote Kurt Maddox, 39, a former telecommunications executive who lives in Centertown, Ky. "If we are going to read the Journal on Saturday, then we might as well go into the office for a while, too."