BurningbirdRecovered 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 […]
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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When my roommate came home tonight, I asked him if he’d heard that Six Apart might buy LiveJournal. “Six who, buy live what?”, he asked. “Six Apart and LiveJournal.” “Who or what are Six Apart and LiveJournal.” “They’re weblogging companies. Well, to be more precise, Six Apart is a weblog company, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After a couple of test trackbacks yesterday, I knew that today most likely we would start seeing trackback spam, and so it has proved. I would suggest that people turn off trackback capability if they’re concerned about receiving spam, until safeguards are put on this other rather huge, gaping hole […]