Webcology

Webcology

WMR.FM Formerly Webmaster Radio

Episodes 832
Avg. Duration 55m
Activity Moderate
Since Oct 2007
Latest Episode May 2026

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Weekly
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Episodic
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68%
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About This Podcast

Webcology takes a deeper look at the ecosystem of the Internet as it affects webmasters and web marketers from the points of view of two well known web marketers, Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger. Based on interviews with special high-profile guests or panels, Webcology introduces, explores and explains how the various segments of the web marketing world work.

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Recent Episodes

The Day the Googleverse Changed

May 21, 2026 1h 40m Transcript

Google announced sweeping changes to the way it displays search results at Google 1/0 2026. Going forward, Google will be presenting expanded AI generated overviews with traditional links pushed far…

The Watching the Worlds Wizz Buy Edition

May 14, 2026 1h 19m Transcript

We keep having these very long shows covering dozens of different stories because the worlds we work in are changing so rapidly and with such frequency. This is another long episode touching on over…

The Day the Butler Didn't Do IT Anymore Edition

May 07, 2026 2h 6m Transcript

It was a busier than normal news week. Here's what we covered:- Ask Jeeves is officially dead. IAC formally killed the OG search engine earlier this week. - There's been a spike in Google Business…

The May Day Edition

Apr 30, 2026 1h 24m

Chrome released a massive security update fixing over 30 vulnerabilities. Be sure you're running v147.0.7727.137/138 and accept no substitutes. Meanwhile, OpenAI founder Sam Altman's identity…

The Too Dangerous for the Public but Too Useful to be Shelved Edition

Apr 23, 2026 1h 24m Transcript

Anthropic's Mythos is too dangerous for the open market but too useful to be ignored. Though only released to a relatively small number of large-scale developers in order for them to develop defenses…

The Schwartz Should Be There Edition

Apr 16, 2026 2h 13m

Wikipedia erased an entry about legendary search journalist Barry Schwartz citing their editorial team's perception Barry has a commercial interest in a Wikipedia entry. That he's spent most of this…

The April's Tools Edition

Apr 02, 2026 1h 48m

The war with Iran is nearly a month old and the effects are being felt across the greater economy. One of the places it is being felt hardest is in the AI sector where chip manufacturing is based on…

The Coming of the Bright Equinox Edition

Mar 19, 2026 1h 22m

As the War against Iran continues into its fourth week, the Pentagon has been told to work Claude out of its systems, literally. The Secretary of War designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk at the…

The Buggy Ides of March Edition

Mar 12, 2026 1h 43m

A couple of GSC bugs to report of the top with BigQuery exports not working and an issue with the date selector in crawl stats. In both cases, it's a them thing, not a you thing. If you're running…

The Age of the AI Wars Edition

Mar 05, 2026 1h 39m

And, suddenly last Saturday, we were at war with Iran. That will have profound effects on our economy and the tech industry. If the war is a component in a tech story, or tech is a big part of a war…

The Agents are Amassing Edition

Feb 19, 2026 1h 19m

The adoption rate of Agentic AIs appears staggering. Making, deploying, and managing AI driven agents is easier than ever. This, of course, introduces a myriad of security concerns, many of which…

The Transitional Vectoring Edition

Feb 05, 2026 1h 16m Transcript

The situation remains normalizing, all facshed up. At least some of the folks working at Palantir are starting to understand what their work is doing to their world. According to reports in Wired…

The New Roman Times are Changing Edition

Jan 29, 2026 1h 26m Transcript

There is no sugar coating how brutal the last week has been. ICE agents murdered yet another regular person in the American federal government's relentless and brutal crackdown on Minneapolis…

The Search Goes on Amidst it All Edition

Jan 15, 2026 1h 4m

Elon Musk's AI-Grok continues to churn out non-consensual images of people including sexualized images of children, an issue that continues into this week. Google is integrating core search signals…

The Nothing New Year's Back Again Episode

Jan 08, 2026 1h 26m

It's a new year which, as with all new years, brings a chance for a renewal, a hope of a new beginning, and in this, the beginning of the second quarter of the 21st century, that hope was dashed…

The Webcology 2025 WTF Just Happened Year End Revue

Dec 31, 2025 1h 10m Transcript

Five high profile OG Search Engine Optimization experts talk about the year that was and the year that may well be in our annual Year End Revue. Carolyn Shelby - Principle SEO at Yoast, Ryan Jones -…

The Christmas Breaks Upon Us So Duck and Cover Soon Edition

Dec 19, 2025 1h 31m Transcript

The December 2025 Core Update continues to roll out, as one does pretty much every year around this time. Some are seeing results early but there hasn't been a major stir or fuss from the SEO…

The It's Getting to Look A Lot Like A Core Update Edition

Dec 12, 2025 1h 26m Transcript

It's the middle of December and throughout the Web, all the crawlers are stirring and AI Bots getting fed. The products displayed on folk's sites with due care, in hopes that St. Googlishous would…

A Cyber-Funday Mass Outage Edition

Dec 04, 2025 1h 37m Transcript

It was a long week following a long Thanksgiving weekend that opened on CyberMonday with a login-outage at Spotify. Folks who logged out of their Spotify accounts on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday awoke…

The Thankful for Those Giving Us So Much Change Edition

Nov 27, 2025 1h 34m Transcript

Even Google's Gary Illyes is saying it, "the change is hard to accept" in regards to the evolution of AI in search but that SEM and SEO will coevolve with search, just like it has the past 30 years.…

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Webcology has published 832 episodes since October 2007, covering topics in Business, Marketing.

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