Really, I still am not sure why. I think the database is running out of control, doing something that requires intervention on the server side.

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Some have noticed my posting rate has dropped recently. Sadly, this has been a relative trend because I was once attempting to churn out three posts a day. In the past two weeks, I’ve struggled to steady at one a day - and this week I’m finally into the danger zone of not even being able to maintain that.

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In the past weeks many blogs saw their PageRank reduced. This was largely explainable by selling links using PageRank as one of the selling points. This also pulled in many participants in TextLinkAds, a popular blog advertising platform. That’s kind of weak, but somewhat justifiable.

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It seems that Google finally made good on the rumblings that they were lowering PageRank on many blogs that were selling links - including some that were affiliated with TextLinkAds - and others that may have been too aggressive with ads, contests, or whatever other conspiracy theory one can cook up.

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In addition to traffic, links coming in, and how many thousands of spam comments Akismet has blocked - another detail that some bloggers obsess over is Google PageRank - basically a number from 1 to 10 assigned to a web page based on number of links to it from other web pages - and the page ranks of those pages. This PageRank number is supposed to determine how far up the list of Google search results your site appears. Anyhow, back in September there was some mumbling that a Google PageRank update was due, well, that month came and went and from what I gather it never really happened.

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I’ll just mention that I saw two things on the Internets that basically voice the general distaste for bloggers in general. The term “blogosphere” is considered the most hated technology word, and “blog” itself was number three.

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Techmeme, everybody’s favorite tech blog aggregator, announced a new way of looking at Techmeme headlines called the Techmeme Leaderboard. It’s basically a top 100 list of the sources most linked to from Techmeme headlines, over a thirty day period.

From what I understand, Techmeme spiders a selective list of technology blogs. I’m not exactly sure how a blog gets included in that list, but it seems to be as simple as being linked a few times from a blog that’s already in the list (at least that’s how Webomatica got in there). In addition, said list seems to regenerate every few days or so.

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While looking at the blogs I read in Google reader for the 29,392th time, I noticed several of the blogs I read (and bloggers that read this blog) are Canadian.

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So far, so good. A quick list of what I’ve noticed that’s new:

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Here are two posts regarding the subject of blog advertising that I found interesting:

David Airey who believes his blog is being penalized by Google in their search results as the result of a few paid links. The item of contention seems to be the lack of “nofollow” on said paid links, implying that his site was giving an SEO benefit to them for cash.

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