Tag Archives: Technorati

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 | Posted in Blogs, Search, Security, WordPress | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 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 | Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Search, Semantics, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (46)

WordPress 2.2 Delayed

4/19/2007 – 1:03 pm

A while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer “big” new features in each release. [...]

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AOL and OpenID

2/15/2007 – 1:31 pm

Here’s an addendum for my previous post about OpenID: AOL supports OpenID authentication for all(?) screennames. [...]

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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. [...]

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Microformatpalooza

6/3/2005 – 3:59 pm

Tantek Çelik has a whole gaggle of microformat links over on his site:

Basically, microformats are just organically grown rules to add application-specific semantics to existing XHTML documents. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Microformats, Semantics | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Musical Baton

5/19/2005 – 5:16 pm

Thanks to the magic of Technorati and a little bit of ego surfing, I discovered that Mike Papageorge of Fiftyfoureleven passed me a musical baton a couple of days ago, but I missed it until now. [...]

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Meme Roundup

1/21/2005 – 1:36 pm

There have been several new memes lately that I have thoughts on, but I just haven’t had the time to comment on them here. I still don’t have time to discuss them in as much depth as I’d like, but here’s a quick summary:

  • RSS 1.1:

    I have mixed feelings on this. [...]

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New My Yahoo Beta brings RSS to the masses

9/28/2004 – 4:51 pm

From Jeremy Zawodny’s blog:

Well, we just launched a beta of the next generation of My Yahoo that fits into that reality. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Search, Syndication | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Technorati redesign

7/26/2004 – 10:25 pm

Thanks to the efforts of Tantek: a new Technorati design. In the words of Scotty, “It’s…it’s… It’s green!”

By rewriting the vast majority of the markup (both from the old Technorati site, and the mockups from AP), I was able to simultaneously reduce the size of the HTML, while significantly increasing its semantic fidelity.

The result: I cut the size of Technorati’s home page in half, made it Valid XHTML, with a style sheet that is Valid CSS. [...]

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