The "I Follow" Movement

Back in February, I wrote about removing the “nofollow” tags from folks who comment.  Why punish folks who took the time to leave a (valid) comment?

Today, the Randa Clay Design blog released some logos to share with folks who have turned off “nofollow” and wrote an announcement article.  You’ll see the logo flying over

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Tech Link Train – I’m on the Tracks

ReviewSaurus tagged me on the latest link driving effort: The Tech Link Train. I often tend to let these slide by, but since I picked up a few new daily readers out of the list, I’ll play along. I had a hard time settling on just 5 to add, but I believe

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Second Release: Add Related Posts to Your Feed

Last weekend I released my first plugin and received some good feedback. Most of that feedback was along the lines of, “Hey dummy, we use a different Related Posts plugin, not UTW!”

Ok, I can take a hint.

So, version .02 is released with support for the w-a-s-a-b-i Related Posts plugin. That

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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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Are You in the 2000

I had forgotton about the 2000 Bloggers project (even though I’d offered up my blog to it the announcement just a few days). I was kind of freaked this evening to see all the Technorati links coming in from it.

It is interesting to have a glimpse at the other bloggers. I’m in there

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