BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I was hit with 781 trackbacks last night, all of which went into moderation, but all of which triggered my comment throttle (trackbacks are stored in the same table as comments in WordPress), so if you tried to comment and couldn’t you’ll know why. I added throttles now to the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been silent in this weblog, primarily because I’ve been working on a couple of other projects. I had talked with a good, and wise, friend of mine about this effort and he made a point that I felt was valid: that I should implement those applications or functionalities I’ve […]
Six Apart has announced what Dave Winer only hinted about and we’ve been expecting — Google and the other search companies have partnered with the weblogging companies to come out with the use of rel=”nofollow”, as a way of dealing with comment spam. When added to the weblog template for links, this instructs the search […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Several people have linked to Martin Schwimmer and his indignation about the fact that Bloglines re-prints the content of his post, without attribution and with the possibility of future advertisements (…or guilty until proven innocent). This violates the cc license, he says, because he can only be republished if proper attribution is […]
Regarding Dave Winer’s idea for some form of centralized syndication feed system, I got a chuckle out of the comment, “What problem am I having and how is a centralized service going to help?” in Phil Ringalda’s post Centralized Subscription? Not that way thanks. You see now the great benefit of being exposed to us techs through weblogging: […]