Hooray!  It’s the end of another long week and time for another round up of my favourite posts from the world of Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
Strap yourselves in, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

Happy Anniversary HuoMah

Dave Harry, better known in social time-wastingnetworking chat sites like Twitter and Plurk as theGypsy, celebrated two years of posting on his internet marketing blog at HuoMah.com on Thursday.
Congratulations Dave, here’s looking forward to many more years of your special brand of SEO comedy to come.

When does this guy find time to write for his own blog?

James Duthie continued his guest-blogging world tour with an appearance on the Van SEO Design Blog where he shared his thoughts on the evolution of the modern SEO.  Apparently we’re a whole new breed of search geeks.  Sometimes I feel like I’m still just getting the hang of having opposable thumbs.

How many of these questions can you get right?

Michael Martinez posted this list of 8 questions every SEO should be able to answer.
I only got 4, but apparently that’s still pretty respectable for a relative n00b like me.
And ‘coz it wouldn’t be a week in SEO without Micheal trying to convince everybody that PR sculpting is pointless, here’s this week’s entry in his ongoing series of PR-Sculpting-Is-Dumb posts.

Just a small selection of some of the silly crap that’s gone hot on Sphinn this week

Seriously, does a post that lists who Matt Cutts follows on Twitter really deserve to go hot?
Or what about the one that just quoted something Matt said on Twitter about hating lies in reconsideration requests.  Surely it’s just a matter of time now until someone with nothing better to do submits a tweet about Matt’s cats.

Then of course there’s this submission that went hot pointing out someone else’s Digg submission of their own Sphinn submission of their own (two sentance) blog post that nobody sphunn.  Yes I felt dizzy after that too.

I’m really starting to understand Lisa Barone’s point about making more use of the desphinn button.

Google gets chatty

Thursday saw Google host their second live webmaster web chat with Matt Cutts, Adam Lasnik and a bunch of other Googlers giving presentations and answering questions from a few hundred eager webmasters and SEOs from across the globe.  There were some very useful tips about personalized search and the effects of case sensitivity in URLs, as well as plenty of reminders about sticking to the guidelines and using the spam report form to let them now about people being naughty.
Quick-thinking Barry Schwartz recorded the chat and posted it on SE Rountable along with all the text from the typed in Q&A portion as well.  If you missed the chat it’s definitely worth heading over there and checking it out.

All Donations Gratefully Recieved

I’ve got a charitable shout-out I want to make this week.
First up I want to point you all towards the guys from Bamoko Bamopots.  Their aim is to raise enough money to provide two fully equipped Land Rover ambulances to the people of Bamoko in Mali (which is a country in North-West Africa for the geographically challenged among you).  It’s a really worthy cause and I’d encourage you to help out in any way you can, whether by making a donation or simply by helping to spread their links far and wide.

The Funny Pages

[Fake] Steve Jobs has announced that he’s going to be taking a little break over the summer, but fortunately Jerry Yang’s stepped in to cover the blog while Steve’s away (I bet Steve’s been reading ProBlogger’s series on the value of lining up guest bloggers when you want to take a break from your blog).
Jerry’s whining about Sergey constantly calling him “bitch” seems to have really tickled Danny Sullivan, so much so that Dave over at RentVine.com threw together this video of Sergey and Larry having a chat about it.  Poor Jerry, the last few weeks must have been tough on him.