One month ago:
Blog Indexing Fail
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1002
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 59 (6%)
Today’s report:
Posts Indexed:
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1010
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 981 (97%)
Index pages indexed:
Total URLs in Sitemap: 799
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 765 (96%)
Verily I say Google’s sitemap service is extremely effective in getting your site indexed. Now getting it ranked, that’s another [...]
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1002
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 59 (6%) — # 12/3/2008
Eight years and ten days ago I published the first post on this blog (though at the time, and for several years, it was on blogspot). The first post is both on this domain and still up on blogspot. I give Google a lot of credit for keeping what must be thousands of dead blogs [...]
Truly we have reached the singularity. The wphone plugin combines two of today's best technologies; the iPhone (or in my case the iPod touch and wordpress. Additionally, I now understand why not having copy and paste capabilities on this device is such a big deal. — # 11/21/2007
Rounding out this collection (not to say series) of plugin-related links, In Series. Next up, why doesn't textile2 work with the asides category? — # 10/24/2007
This may become necessary. Expanding this blog to have private and public sections is under deep consideration. — # 10/24/2007
I love this place because it is what I’ve made it. I get to choose all the materials, examine them, place them, take them out, learn about them, use them in different ways. All the time this place gets better. Better because each time I’ve learned something new. This is a place of learning. It [...]
Sitting here watching Die Hard and waiting to find out what happens to The Boy Who Lived, I started to wonder if this blog was the oldest blog that no one has ever heard of. The first post was back in November of 2000. This doesn’t particularly bother me as this blog and the various [...]
Going through the archives has been fascinating. The most surprising find that had slipped completely from my memory was how much I wrote about the second intifada. My posts from the time are one sided to put it mildly. Unfortunately I wasn’t blogging much during the most recent Lebanon war; it would have been interesting [...]
I’m engaged in a concerted effort to dig through the last 6 years of archives and update every post with at least one category and perhaps a few tags. As we get really far back, I’ll face the decision of whether to update the old blogger posts with actual titles. I think I’ve done about [...]
Google Reader has updated tonight with a new trends feature. All a part of Google’s effort to tell you more about yourself. In this case there are no surprises. Over time I expect the % Read figure for Messrs. Marshall & Yglesias will climb thanks to their switching to full text feeds.
Subscription # Read [...]
You’d never know it, but this is the 5th time I’ve written this post tonight. Or maybe the 4th, I’ve lost count, and yet I’ve written each version within the last 90 minutes.
Does the textile1 plugin work? Yes, but I’m going to use Textile2. Not to be confused with Textile2.1.
Textile2.1 doesn’t work with wordpress2.2
At some [...]
John Battelle has a long post on what he’d like to be able to do with his blog. In short he’d like to use the data about his blog’s use to build useful navigation tools for his readers. It’s all there, he knows, but how to get it out? I’ve been mulling some similar issues, [...]
A two-fer Tuesday (honk-honk) from Copyblogger today. Best of Copyblogger 2006. And Mark Twain quotes as blogging inspiration. — # 01/2/2007
MediaShift has a long and interesting interview with Paul Kiel and Justin Rood of TPMMuckraker. "I don’t believe in the ivory tower idea, but legitimacy is hard to win. People value news outlets for their legitimacy, which is very hard to do. So that’s a problem for the citizen journalism movement." — # 11/22/2006
Since the Grey Lady has decided to open up the Select garden to the rest of us slobs to remind us just how trite Tom Friedman is, I decided it was time for a little self-referential linking. For those who pay for Time Select, see below for how you can get the very same opinion [...]
Matt and Rand debate. Are the below icons good for your site or not? Matt says they distract the writer from producing good content. Rand says they can benefit the site by demonstrating that your content is there for the sharing. Rand makes a much more persuasive argument, while including several important caveats.
I’ve been devoting [...]
Malcolm Gladwell reads Jane Galt and decends into shrill, shrieking madness:
1. “Gladwell” does not attribute Irish success to falling birth rates. David Bloom and David Canning do. Gladwell is a journalist. Bloom and Canning are two exceedingly prestigious economists at Harvard, who are considered world experts in the field of demography and economics. Gladwell was [...]
The mind wants to blog, but somehow never gets the body to do it. Scoble says that this isn’t a blog anymore. BTW Robert, you left off your list of things that aren’t blogs, those that have become no more than dumping grounds for daily del.icio.us postings. (Further note, Scoble has recanted [I think] the [...]
Sure this thing has been on life support for the better part of a year, but even I wasn’t prepared for the final nail in the coffin delivered with ruthless efficiency last night:
Self: I love that picture of Piper. I posted on my blog.
Spouse: Cute! I’ll check it out. ... ... What’s your URL again?
Ouch.