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Social Media Specs

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 […]

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Specs Weblogging

The other shoe on nofollow

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I expected this reason to use nofollow would take a few weeks at least, but not the first day. Scoble is happy about the other reason for nofollow: being able to link to something in your writing and not give ‘google juice’ to the linked. Now, he says, I can link to […]

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Specs

Too late solutions

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Flash at 6: Google calls Dave Winer. Ooo. The suspense. Per Sam Ruby: Robert Sayre: I noticed that the links his comment form have an interesting rel attribute. Implemented. Prediction: that wouldn’t solve the problem. I agree with Sam — this isn’t going to solve the problem. Gas station cash registers have […]

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RDF Specs

What is FOAF and why do you need it?

I thought I would break in with a little tech talk and discuss FOAF, or Friend of a Friend. If you hang around weblogging for any length of time, you’ll probably come across this term. Might be nice to know that it’s not some kind of new goverment regulation. FOAF is XML created using a specific […]

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RDF Specs

Critical Mass

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I read about the RDF Data organization, I was reminded that the difficulties inherent with deriving a new vocabulary and associated functionality isn’t found in the bits of XML or the bytes of code: it’s generating enough interest and uses thereof for the vocabulary to reach critical mass; making it […]