Steve Hooker: cyberSaps businessblogging news, internet biz, communities, UK angleNofollow May Be a Rank Solution- January 23, 2005 Rogers Cadenhead: "The most far-reaching impact could be from publishers who adopt nofollow on external links to boost the effect of their internal links, taking a bajillion rank suggestions right out of Google's algorithm." Actually, I don't really care about Google. But I do care that when reading many of the nationals or internationals like The Guardian or The Register that they articles they speak of are not linked to. Usually, I have to do a search in Google to...http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/comment/2446 Browser stats- January 21, 2005 This in from December 2004, the rest of the 4 years this site has been monitoring are here. I spy many more MSIE 6 than I think should be there. There is some evidence that some browsers mask their identity but not that many to really influence this chart, and if I remember from wayback, it was usually MSIE pretending to be Netscape. Sad that Mozilla is still so low. 1. MSIE 6.x 39945828 (80%) 2. MSIE 5.x 4569062 (9%) 3. Mozilla ..http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2004/December/browser.php Pubsub: Over 8 Million Blogs Served...- January 21, 2005 "That would put the minimum blog census at 16 million while there are probably more than 24 million blogs. Personally, I would bet on the higher number." In all the blogs in all the world...http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2005/01/over_8_million_.html Hate linking- January 21, 2005 "Most Google-conscious bloggers avoid linking to spam sites but it's also common to hear about various de-linking nonsense because someone was offended by words on a page. Now you can have a decision when you make a link: do I want my viewers to see it but not promote it in Google, or do I not mind promoting it in Google because I want other people to see it as well."All you need to do is include the rel=noFollow in a link, and Google will ignore it, though others can click...http://smugcanadian.weblogger.com/2005/01/18#a1514 Big List of Blog Search Engines- January 20, 2005 Of all the blogs in all the world, you had to submit to all these blog lists. It would be nice to build a central submission page to submit to all these sites. If I had the time.http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html How British people don't say what they mean- January 19, 2005 "If a British person says 'very interesting', they mean in fact the opposite. For a Dutch person this is very confusing as we are not used to playing with language in such a manner." Some examples: What the Brits say What they mean What the Dutch understand Oh, by the way&133; or, Incidentally&133; The primary purpose of our discussion is&133; This is not very...http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=15670 Converting Manila to Movable Type- January 19, 2005 "This is a script, written in UserTalk (the language of Userland Frontier), which will export a Manila (or Weblogs.com, or Buzzword.com, or Weblogger, etc.) weblog to a file suitable for importing into Movable Type or TypePad. It will also write all of the images contained within the Manila site out to files, convert Manila discussion group threads into MTTypePad comment threads, and convert any Manila News Item departments into post categories." Most excellent! I hate...http://www.queso.com/manilaToMT.php Using SOAP to post to Manila from Word- January 19, 2005 "This was a Word macro I wrote that uses PocketSOAP to create a new story in Manila"Amazing the stuff I miss. This is from 3 years ago. I found it via Steve Kirks who found something similar for Radio. When I have a bit of time I'll play with this a little, I can see a few of my customers using it, perhaps.http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/stories/2001/04/0003.html |