Recovered from the Wayback Machine. An interesting story appeared today about the WordPress site, and several thousand articles that could be found in a http://wordpress.org/articles. Disclaimer. I’m hesitant to even write about this, knowing the web’s fondness for angry mob justice, but I feel like it’s an important issue that needs to be addressed. My one request: […]
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Google and bad banning
I dislike banning. I dislike blacklists based on proxy, domain, IP address, and keyword. No matter how sophisticated the applications that support blacklisting and no matter how good intentioned the sites doing the banning, someone innocent always gets hurt. My favorite banning story so far is from Jonas Luster’s weblog where he talks about showing some law […]
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Search Engine antics
Another couple of tech issues appeared several times in my overworked aggregator: Google’s AutoLink and Yahoo’s API. As soon as I read about the Yahoo API, I knew I wanted to try it out with the new site. If you look at the bottom of the sidebar, you’ll see several links that use the API […]
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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. […]
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I broke Nofollow
I’m still trying to write something on Technorati Tags. What’s slowing me up is there’s been such a great deal of interesting writing on the topic that I keep wanting to add to what I write. And, well, the weather warmed up to the 60’s again today, and who am I to reject an excuse […]