Blog Toys

I’ve been playing with a few “blog toys” yesterday and today. Haven’t made my mind up about any of them yet… but they’re interesting in various ways.

First off, I’ve added a little badge for whos.amung.us at the bottom of every page. This is an little image that shows, in real time, how many

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That nofollow Thing

As many are aware, by default WordPress adds a rel=”nofollow” to the URLs in comments. The genesis of this seems to be from a couple years ago when blog spam (I’d imagine trackback spam in particular) was getting worse and the options we have now weren’t around or as refined.

I’ve noticed some of the

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Playing with MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog had a big news day today. Lots of press about being acquired by Yahoo! for a (allegedly) very large chunk of change. Now, as a rule of thumb I tend not to get caught up in the whole “who bought what/who when” type stuff — I already lived through one bubble.

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