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Upgrade or else!

4/8/2008 – 12:48 pm

UPDATE 2008-04-16: Well crud. I was just re-reading the WP 2.5 announcement post for something else, and spotted a bit about security updates between 2.3.3 and 2.5. So my previous advice about 2.3.3 being okay was incorrect. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogs, Security, WordPress | Tagged payattention, Plugins, Search, Security, Spam, Technorati, Themes, upgrade, Upgrades, WordPress | Comments (84)

Tags and Categories in WordPress 2.3

9/22/2007 – 11:15 am

Since the upcoming WordPress 2.3 release will debut the new tagging system, I thought I’d take some time to address what it means to use “tags” versus using “categories”. These things mean different things to different people, as it’s really just a matter of how you want to use them. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogging, Microformats, Semantics, Tech, WordPress | Tagged API, delicious, Folksonomies, Metadata, plugin, Plugins, Politics, Tags, taxonomy, Technorati, Web, WordPress | Comments (46)

Follow you, follow me

2/15/2007 – 12:42 pm

Two years ago today, we released WordPress version 1.5. This was a pretty major release that introduced several new features that are still major staples of the current 2.1 branch: the Dashboard, Themes, and Pages. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogging, Microformats, Plugins, Spam, WordPress | Tagged Akismet, commentspam, Google, Metadata, nofollow, PageRank, plugin, Spam, WordPress, yahoo | Comments (69)

Google Blog Search

9/14/2005 – 5:31 pm

I may be a little late coming to this party, but Google has introduced Google Blog Search, which limits searches to just blogs (well, in theory, anyhow). The most interesting thing about this, to me, is that GBS provides the search results for your terms as Atom and RSS feeds.

It seems that Google is leveraging blog feeds to get structured data, and monitoring ping sites for timely updates. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Atom, Blogs, Syndication | Tagged Atom, Feeds, Google, pingomatic, RSS, Web | Comments (1)

Googlebomb: Popup Blockers

7/15/2005 – 1:06 pm

Has your blog been spammed with ads for a Popup Blocker for Internet Explorer?

If you are getting here through a search on Popup Blockers or for Pop-Up Blocker or Pop Up Blocker Internet Explorer, please do not buy from pop-upblocker dot org They are spammers and unethical. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Blogs, SEO, Spam | Tagged commentspam, Google, SEO, Spam | Comments (14)

Yahoo! My Web 2.0

6/29/2005 – 9:19 am

Somehow, I must find time to play with Yahoo! My Web 2.0… I don’t have time to read up on it and comment intelligently right now. . [...]

By Dougal | Tagged API, Folksonomies, PHP, Service, Social, Tags, yahoo | Comments (3)

More on microformats

6/21/2005 – 2:43 pm

There is now a dedicated site for information about microformats: microformats.org

I’m working on a movie review using the hReview format. I’m hoping that we’ll see one of the big search engines start correlating microformat data soon. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Microformats, Semantics, Tech | Tagged Google, Technorati, Web, yahoo | Comments (4)

Find cheap gas

5/17/2005 – 12:53 pm

What do you get if you combine Google Maps and GasBuddy?

CheapGas.

(via: Make)

By Dougal | Also posted in Geolocation, Maps, Tech | Tagged Gas, Geography, Google, Web | Comments (20)

GeoURL.org Returns

3/1/2005 – 5:09 pm

After months (and months, and months) on hiatus, GeoURL.org has returned. The service is now run by Ask BjÃ¸rn Hansen. It appears that it’s been back up for about a week, and they’re still kicking out some kinks. [...]