If you’re a webmaster, administrator, or moderator of any large blog, forum, or other community site, you’ll find that a lot of time is wasted spelling out URIs to various useful links, whether they’re to guides, reviews, downloads, or forms. On a big website with lots of members (especially that kind that don’t use the [...]
Tag Archive for 'blogging'
Using Bad Word Filters to Boost SEO & Productivity
Published by June 12th, 2007 in Guides, SEO 0 CommentsNeoSmart Technologies is hiring once again! This time, we’re looking for bloggers/posters - nothing mind boggling nor anything too difficult: we have another (non-profit) project for the community we’d like to get kicked off, and with our current resources and staff tied-up beyond belief with their current workload (working hard to get you the software, [...]
WordPress 2.2 Adds Tagging Support!
Published by March 31st, 2007 in Blogosphere, Software 11 CommentsIt seems like the latest SVN commits to WordPress have added tagging support to the popular open-source blogging platform… and it’s about time, too! It’s no longer stuff you have to add by plugin, so WordPress is finally getting with the times and adding this much-requested functionality to the upcoming WordPress 2.2 (due to be released [...]
What on Earth is Wrong with Akismet!?!?
Published by March 31st, 2007 in Blogosphere, Software 7 CommentsAkismet sucks. No really - if it can’t tell that 400 duplicate comments made to the same blog but different pages by the same IP address linking to the same domain in a matter of 4 minutes are to be considered spam, no thanks - we’ll find something better.
Seriously though! This has happened 3 times [...]
Creating a (Unified!) Vendor-Neutral Markup Standard
Published by February 21st, 2007 in Programming, Software 1 CommentTake a look at any blog, wiki, forum, etc. Specifically, look at how posts are created, filtered, and displayed. There are dozens of different ways for authors to specify the formatting and content of their articles/posts, and hundreds of ways to render the results. Some blogs rely on now-famous 3rd-party markup implementations like Textile and [...]
The Stupidity of Multi-Part "Articles"
Published by January 26th, 2007 in Blogosphere, Guides 3 CommentsAuthors of online content seem to just love multi-part articles. Usually they’re guides or reviews, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a big site or a no-name blog: authors just love to leave you hanging. It’s not good “visitor retainment practice” — it’s just annoying and pretentious. It leaves readers with half a thought (which [...]
Wikipedia Takes our Money & Links, Gives Nothing Back
Published by January 23rd, 2007 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Programming, Software 14 CommentsWikipedia has just completed it’s annual Fundraising Drive - a million dollars in pure cash have found their way to the Wikimedia foundation. Wikipedia used to be cool, and donating to a non-profit organization like Wikipedia was definitely one of the most altruistic and philanthropic deeds one could do. But in the past, Wikipedia used [...]
Why I Joined Habari, and What It’s All About
Published by January 20th, 2007 in Blogosphere, Programming, Reviews, Software 14 CommentsPeople have been bombarding my email asking me questions about Habari, and most importantly, why I joined it. I wasn’t planning on blogging about any of this until I officially became a committer in the Habari project, but after reading this post, I feel the need to share my reasons.
I’ve been a loyal contributor the [...]
The Need for Creating Tag Standards
Published by January 15th, 2007 in Corporate Talk, Programming, Software 82 CommentsWeb 2.0, blogging, and tags all go together, hand-in-hand. However, while RPC standards exist for blogs and the pinheads boggle over the true definition of a “blog,” no one has a cast-in-iron standard for tags. Depending on where you go and who you ask, tags are implemented differently, and even defined in their own unique way. [...]
Generally speaking, the one sector of the online world where websites attract far more attention & traffic than money is the blogosphere. Whereas other websites stand to benefit quite a bit from the meager investments they put into their site in the first place, bloggers must work long and hard for their 15 minutes of [...]
