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WordPress 1.5 interview

This is one I missed. Craig from Nuclear Moose–great header graphic, BTW–did an interview with Matt Mullenweg and Ryan Boren about the upcoming candidate release of WordPress 1.5. It would seem that rel=nofollow has been implemented by default in WP 1.5, so I’ll be posting instructions on how to remove this for those who aren’t interested. But of all the […]

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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 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. […]

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Weblogging

Some things aren’t worth saving

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I remember back when Trackback was first introduced. I was like everyone else, jumping up and down at this new way of ‘threading the void’. Well, we’ve just been hung dry on the threads and we’ve all come crashing down. AKMA writes today, “Trackback is broken”, and I concur. It was […]