After reading the comments on Mr. Anonymous’s blog, I figure its good to know that modern CEO’s like David Sivry are able to respond to even minor issues as expressed in The Shining Ones. Preferably, I like the services of Technorati.com, and over all I believe its time to tag myself. As Sichelputzer (this was the tag), I visited the blog of David Sivry and noticed a nice functionality add-on which might be useful for Blogspirit, too. The idea to display Technorati’s „Cosmos“ link serves as much as the Trackback-Ping plug-in: The entire idea of inter-linking various search engines (preferably those specialized for weblogs) will already add a higher global connectivity to other blogs and authors who might link back to your own blog or simply write about similar or identical topics.
I decided it was time to add a higher usability to this blog and inserted this small snipplet into the templates for the permalinks (Design -> Advanced Settings -> Permalink Template). You can see the result below each post while displaying the comment or permalink page. It enables the search for further information of each individual post or topic on Technorati, Bloglines, Feedster and Google.
Search for this topic elsewhere:
Technorati |
Bloglines |
Feedster |
As previously mentioned in GoogleBlog: Preventing comment spam, the search engine built up a major cooperation with various blog hosting providers. Nevertheless, it appears to be a neat trick by Google to establish a new content-filter only to recognize websites as websites or in specific as weblogs. I cannot advise to integrate the rel=“nofollow“ attribute to any blog software as it clearly identifies the majority of weblogs. It would only grant Google the perrmission to recalculate the pagerank for paying customers – to raise their pagerank and lower the pagerank of any weblog.
I decided to implement a special CSS snippet by Phil Ringalda to lure everybody on any rel=“nofollow“ link:
a[rel~=“nofollow“] { text-decoration:blink !important; color:lime ! important; }
Last night I updated my Creative Commons Deed (CCD). I advise every blogger, especialy those here at Blogspirit, to include his or her personal Creative Common Deed. Everybody is advised to keep in mind the following (as excerpt from the original CCD):
You as a reader are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work; and to make derivative works. All of this work may only be used under the following conditions:
1. Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
2. Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
3. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
4. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
5. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license).
Remember the disclaimer of Creative Commons, as you are in no way receiving an attorney-client relationship.
The Commons Deed is not a license. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the Legal Code (the full license) — it is a human-readable expression of some of its key terms. Think of it as the user-friendly interface to the Legal Code beneath. This Deed itself has no legal value, and its contents do not appear in the actual license. Creative Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. Distributing of, displaying of, or linking to this Commons Deed does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Further information on Creative Commons can be found at the CC’s weblog.
I was quite amazed as I noticed a total of 84MB traffic for this blog. I was the prancing pony, not someone else, but just me. Seen through pink glasses, it definately appeared as if many people visited my blog in the past days. But then the kickback to reality threw me off the fence: More than half of the traffic was created by robots, especially „slurp“ hit the road with 42MB! I hope Blogspirit will raise the montly limit of 250MB, because I am afraid of unavailability of my content in a few weeks as people become more and more aware of it, especially as it is indexed in the search engines or directories. I modified the revisit-after tag to be set for 7 and 14 days on the permalink/comment and archive/categories pages. Hopefully, this setting will come into effect as soon as possible. I figured my blog’s start page creates roughly 40kb-70kb, but I do not wish to destroy the whole layout to save space…
I noticed the increase of sub-companies and new portals made by or in affiliation with Google. This company apparently has its own interest of multimedial world domination. An obscure incident was described on this article:
I was astonished to see that the „Invite 1 friend to Gmail“ link now says „Invite 6 friends to Gmail.“ See, when Google PR first gave me an account, that link said „Invite 4 friends to Gmail.“ I gave three of the precious accounts […] and saved one for emergencies. Like everyone else, I could only guess when Gmail would finally be public and open to all comers.
The author David Pogue expresses this strange event found at Google’s email service „Gmail“ simply – Google spreads like a virus:
It’s doling out a handful of free accounts to existing members, letting them each invite another handful. The result: a slow, controlled, viral spread of Gmail accounts.
But when will Google stop? Gmail is only one way to obtain control of global emailing, as every other software developped by the company. Google Deskbar is used to observe users, Google News means to filter and manipulate the media, Orkut will create elite communities, Google AdSense and Google AdWords control advertisement, Blogger (ahem!) controls the freedom of publication and content, Froogle centralizes the search for products, Google Labs allows cheap beta-testing of their own software, and last but not least Google Toolbar monitors our searches. The sad thing here is my own responsibility – because I use Google on my own.
The organisation Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) is newly inviting for the nominations for its first Freedom Blog awards. As dot journalism reports, the main focus of the awards is to explicitly draw more attention to authors (and blogs) which express an alternative point of view concerning news. Within many countries, writers are persecuted by the government and the media is in general under authoriative control. Personally, I am amazed by the idea to support and help these authors to express their thoughts openly and publically without limitation. Nevertheless, one may not forget that a certain control by the government helps in the process to obain a level of „freedom of speech“. But how much the awards will bring opposing views into the light of the media is questionable as it appears to be quite difficult to relevate persecuted authors to potential terrorists…
I don’t know why, but apparently I have a few problems with the blog… its content won’t show up on the first page, a few categories and -even worse- … it affects the rss feed. I remember Thomas wrote an issue concerning the caching of the database and server, however by reloading or refreshing my posts, the problem won’t be solved. Nevertheless, I hope by posting a random entry like this one the problem shall be no more… I’m just going to start to keep track of it – I think!
To fight the increasing problem of comment spam has become a priority for blog hosting providers, software developpers and even search engines. Google itself has introduced a new method to disable advertisement links found in the comment pages. As these spammers attempt to multiply their website addresses to increase their google-pagerank, the company has set up a new filter for their spider robot.
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=“nofollow“) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. […] We hope the web software community will quickly adopt this attribute […]
Major service providers plan to cooperate with Google. Blogspirit itself probably does not need to worry about the rel=“nofollow“ attribute as the comments are permitted to use html or actively link to other sites. Nevertheless, you may edit the permalink page to implement strings.
Edit: I discontinued to publish how to effectively (?) modify Blogspirit’s code…
Grafedia is an amazing idea to merge ourselves with other people to overcome the limitation of the digital world of the internet and the complete physical environment.
[…] Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content […] With grafedia, every surface becomes potentially a web page, and the entire physical world is joined with the Internet. […]
Created by John Geraci, a New York artist and student for Interactive Communication, this software allows interactivity with three easy steps. Since anybody can become a „Grafedia artist“, you just have to send a word with the media file (images, videos or sound files) to their server. I created an entry for the word „sichelputzer“, and you might want to look at it by mailing sichelputzer@grafedia.net – a few other fellow bloggers did it here and here, too.
1. Choose a word. 2. Send a media file from your cell phone to that chosen word plus ‚@grafedia.net‘, e.g. ‚sichelputzer@grafedia.net‚. 3. Write that word anywhere in the real world in blue with an underline.