Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

TailRank, The Long Tail?

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

TailRank seems to promise what I was trying to do with the Long Tail of the Blogosphere site, in that it tries to help you discover long tail content.. but the content it shows you is sorted by the number of incoming links. Entries with no incoming links don’t seem to show up. What makes […]

RSS Bandit on .NET Framework 2.0

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

It’s disappointing to see Dare say that RSS Bandit would stay as a .NET Framework 1.1 application for at least a year, maybe two. Why do I want RSS Bandit to be a .NET 2.0 application? I’m not exactly sure. It’s probably similar to the reason that people wanted Win32 apps when Windows 95 was […]

BlogExplosion

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Okay so it seems a bit spammy, but it could also be a really interesting way to promote a website. BlogExplosion is a directory of blogs. What makes it unique is that once you’ve added your blog to it, you can earn credits by using it to view the blogs of other members of BlogExplosion. […]

Attention as Trust

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

Check out this blog. At a glance, is this spam or not? It’s not until you look down a couple of entries and see the huge list of links that it becomes obvious that it’s spam. Most blog posts today are by spammers.. The only way to tell the real blogs from the spam is […]

How Much Is My Blog Worth

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

My blog is worth $1,693.62? Where do I go to cash out?

Spammity Spam

Monday, October 17th, 2005

On another side note, I’m one of the beta testers for a new browser…

Killer App for Events?

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Dare Obasanjo asks Where is the Killer App for Events? The killer app for events is email. I use Yahoo! Calendar, and I’ve been using it for years. I enter things like birthdays, anniversaries, and other recurring events I want to remember, and every year, I get an email a few days before the event. […]

Referer Spam

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

This is annoying. I’m using WordPress, and ShortStat for stats. The last few days, I’ve been getting thousands of bogus hits from domains whose names are ads. I guess the expectation is that I list referers somewhere on the site. Funny thing is, the page that’s receiving the referer spam hits (this one) is a […]

Google Reader

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Google now has Google Reader in beta. When I heard the name Google Reader, my first thought was some new take on the Adobe Reader, or an eBook reader.. I’m not sure the world needs yet another feed reader, but Google’s stuff so far has been top notch so I’m willing to give it a […]

Weblogs.com sells for $2.3 million

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Dave sold his ping server sold for $2.3 million dollars. This depresses me. I’ve had the opportunities to create the sorts of things in the blogging space that have now started turning into real cash for their creators, but I’ve never had the time to really pursue them. Or rather, I guess, I’ve never made […]