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Diversity Technology

Guys Don’t Link

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Better Bad News folk did a take on the AutoLink fooflah, which is worth a chuckle, though not necessarily a guffaw. However, what I found more interesting about the page is the *list of webloggers that the BBN folks referenced: 1. Opt Out Petition 2. Dan Gillmor 3.The Scoblizer 4. Dave […]

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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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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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Technology

Daily hits via Technorati

Through Technorati I found a post where Roland Tanglao referenced my post on trackback being dead. There was a discussion in comments about Technorati opening up Watchlists and API queries. Hmmm. I then created a watchlist of my base URL, http://weblog.burningbird.net, which you can access directly with this URL. This returns an RSS feed of the watchlist for […]