Can someone make a Yahoo! Pipe that will omit posts from Boing Boing that mention the author of the post in the title?
I’ve found that 99% of the time, such posts are just the authors fluffing their personal projects.
John Gruber is having some Atom linkblog troubles over at Daring Fireball.
Mark Pilgrim’s “How to make a linkblog in Atom” is a little dated (some of it is specific to Atom 0.3), but the part about using rel="alternate" to point to the permalink (on your blog) and using rel="related" to point to the item you’re linking (on another site) is still valid. It’s up to the feed reader to present that to the reader in an appropriate manner.
Here’s how NetNewsWire handles rel="related" in Daring Fireball’s Atom feed:
One benefit of doing it this way (besides following the Atom spec) is that it allows John to post multiple rel="related" links per entry. Another is that it would be consistent (clicking the title of the entry would always take you to DF). And lastly, it would also allow John to drop the (now redundant) hyperlinked “hash” (#) at the end of the entry.
Simon Willison has a great writeup on jQuery for JavaScript programmers. WordPress has caught the jQuery bug, and we will be rolling out its implementation more and more as we iterate versions. Simon’s post has a good sampling of the kind of stuff you can do with jQuery. My advice is to combine FireBug with jQuery for “live” learning.
Note to self: do not attempt Debian dist-upgrade from an airport, 10 minutes prior to boarding.
It is against our terms and conditions to have a
rel="nofollow"on the [Text-Link-Ads] ads.
Let there be no more equivocation: Text-Link-Ads are black hat SEO sellers. They are a search engine influence broker.
Devil’s Advocate #1 says: “You’re just selling links… how is that different from Google Adsense or any other advertising?”
Response: You’re selling influence, through a link. Take away the influence (by nofollow), and you’ll find yourself getting a letter from Text-Link-Ads saying your account has been placed on hold. The influence is the important part. The delivery mechanism is irrelevant. Focusing on the mechanism is a red herring.
Devil’s Advocate #2 says: “Search engines are smart enough to tell the difference between sponsored links and regular links.”
Response: No they’re not. Text-Link-Ads is completely predicated on its ability to fool search engines. Otherwise, they’d let you nofollow the links. Also, they’d be paying you a lot less money.
Devil’s Advocate #3 says: “Search engines aren’t smart enough, but they should be! It’s not my fault that they’re not on their game.”
Response: I agree on both counts, but in the meantime you’re still knowingly polluting their search engine rankings with sponsored material. That’s black hat. Your day of reckoning is coming. Maybe you’ll be delisted. Maybe your PageRank will go down a few notches. Just know that you can’t shit on search engines and expect them to take it with a smile.
Devil’s Advocate #4 says: “It’s my site! I’ll do whatever I want!”
Response: I agree. And so do the search engines, which is why they’re trying to keep people like Text-Link-Ads from polluting their search results.
If you have another devil’s advocate (or maybe just devil) position that I haven’t addressed, let me know in the comments and I’ll update the post.
When I got my MacBook Pro, I decided that I wasn’t going to bring everything over on my PowerBook, but rather that I would manually transfer things as I needed them. That way, the cruft gets left behind. Here is the list of applications I’ve installed, in the order that I’ve installed them.
I have Pownce invites. Anyone want them? It looks like a pretty nice service.
OS X’s Spotlight searching functionality is pretty handy, but I’ve always been annoyed by having to arrow down to select the top hit and launch/open it. I stumbled upon a shortcut by accident. Holding down Cmd will highlight the top hit, and then pressing Return will launch/open it. So, Cmd-Space, type, Cmd-Return. Handy.
I was in the Tampa Apple store around 1pm today, and they still had iPhones in stock. There were maybe 20 or 30 people in line. It wasn’t that crazy. I called ahead and reserved a MacBook Pro (more on that later). They had someone help me personally and sell me on the AppleCare and ProCare upgrades. There were plenty of available staff members. Honestly, I was expecting it to either be a zoo, or for them to be completely sold out of iPhones. Either they had a huge inventory, or demand isn’t as explosive as some had predicted.
Go read Steve Jobs talking about how native apps on the iPhone blow web apps on the iPhone out of the water. And then read the transcript of him at WWDC ‘07 (to a room full of OS X developers) trying to pass web apps off as a viable substitute for native apps.