Another example of why using your own domain name is better than relying on free services out there. Change iTunes feed for Odeo podcast This user was using Odeo to create her podcast. Now she’s stuck using them, since Apple’s iTunes podcast directory has that URL. And Odeo doesn’t provide a way to get out […]
Archive of posts filed under the Web-design category.
Reason #602 to Use Your Own Domain Name
Like I wrote in Investing in a Deadend, here’s another reason to only create content (your writing, photos, music, or movies) in a web space that is under your direct control so that you can easily move to another web host if you need to. WordPress.com is giving people only 7 hours to remove content […]
Investing in a Deadend
A friend of mine runs a blog at Blogware.com. Her site is at example.blogware.com. She recently went through the accumulated spam comments and blew them away. Unfortunately, she also blew away six months worth of trackbacks to her blog. I tried to re-trackback to it, and I can’t now, because I’ve been labeled as a […]
Anyone noticing any problems with Google Pagerank?
I was just testing the new Firefox 2.0 beta, and I noticed that PlanetMike.com now has a Google PageRank of 7. (It was at 6 back in February.) Wohoo! So of course I tested my other sites. My Washington DC theatre information site has jumped from 4 to 6, above the other two DC area […]
OpenOffice 2.04 is out
OpenOffice 2.04 is out, and they finally have a version for OS X. The download page for OpenOffice OS X is much more nicely designed that the old international listing. I really like the question and answer process. Do you have Intel or a PowerMac, then they have a nice link to a page telling […]
Verizon’s Policy Blog, the “PoliBlog”
Verizon is now blogging at PoliBlog. The URL is a really nice one, very easy to remember. http://poliblog.verizon.com/PoliBlog/blogs/poliblog/default.aspx. What is it with using technology or a design that requires three directories to get to the real content? Don’t click on the blog author’s name. They are using some kind of javascript abomination to clear out […]
Bitacle Appears to Be Editing Posts
I believe that Bitacle is editing posts before they are “archived” onto their web site. It looks like the Bitacle scraper is not displaying anything on their web site that is in an RSS feed after a horizontal rule. Hmmm, why would they do that? Oh yeah, the copyright feed plug in adds a HR […]
Added Akismet Spam Count
I’ve just added the Akismet Spam Count plugin to my WordPress. It shows how many spam have been aught by Akismet. Very nice.
SnapBot Appears to be a Broken, Bad Spider
This appeared in one my web site’s server logs: 38.98.19.116 – – [10/Sep/2006:02:33:46 -0400] “GET /2005/08/28/postname/feed:http://www.example.com/comments/feed/ HTTP/1.0” 404 12824 “-” “Snapbot/1.0” Ugh! Tons of 404s as this badly behaved spider bot added the site’s feed URL for comments to the end of each URL. SnapBot is apparently related to Snap.com. I’ve emailed Snap.com asking for […]
The Value of e-SocietyRobot?
One of my web sites has been spidered by the e-SocietyRobot spider. It’s web site is at http://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/~yamana/es/, slightly more legible using Babelfish. e-SocietyRobot is not a search engine. e-SocietyRobot hit 4,549 pages, no MP3 files luckily, but still used 51MB of traffic. But it is some unknown research project attempting to spider the web. […]