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Technology

Don’t link to this

Never attempt to write anything as long as my previous post, directly in the weblogging tool. If you do, you will go mad, and most likely cause harm to your computer or cat, whichever is closer. I did want to point out that after my experiment in the earlier post–and did you all have to […]

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Weblogging

Accidental Smarts à la mode (a response to just about about any body who is interested)

Responding to the recent discussions about folksonomies and tags, AKMA was forced to make a confession: he is tags challenged: “…I should pause to say that I’m not a natural for “tags.�? I’ve hardly ever used deli.cio.us tags. I didn’t begin tagging my pictures for flickr for ages; even now I’m liable to tag pretty cursorily […]

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Technology

Tagback seed is sprouting

As you can see from the initial Tagback, created for yesterday’s post, several people have added weblog posts that tagback to the original item. In addition, a new del.icio.us tag, tagback, was created, and since neither the original del.icio.us bbintroducingtagback and tagback tag entries are being pulled into the Technorati tagback page (anyone know why?), I used […]

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Technology Weblogging

Bad Webloggers. Bad.

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As you can see, I’m still getting pingbacks, even with removing the link to the pingback server from my page header. The reason for this, most likely, is because in the WordPress code somewhere, my site is responding affirmatively to an XML-RPC request, and the pingback is then sent. I’ve […]

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Semantics Social Media Weblogging

Introducing Tagback

Recovered from the Wayback Machine (includes comments). The purpose of Trackback initially was to ping the readers of another’s post about something they may want to know about. Of course, we immediately started using it as a referrer link (“Hi, I linked to you!”) So, we’re dropping trackback and we need something in its place. […]