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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WordPress 2.3 is slated for release this coming Monday, Sept. 24. It has several new features but one that deserves particular note are tags - words that help add some meaning to the subjects of your posts.

For quite a while I’ve been using a plug in that creates Technorati tags and have been considering ditching them as I don’t get much traffic from Technorati and I’m on a quest to declutter this blog. Now with WordPress 2.3 supporting tags internally I’m thinking I’ll just move over to that system.

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In the interest of sharing information, this is the first in a series of “brain dump” posts regarding web design - specifically for folks who are starting a blog.

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Apologies for the slight slowdown in posting - a case of “blog paranoia” and a few balls in the air made it a little hard to post this week.

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Hmm, not sure about this Technorati front page redesign, since they did one only a few months ago. At that time it seemed they were going for a more mainstream approach, hiding their blog content sources and promoting videos and their WTF service.

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Every few weeks, I do a quick assessment of the general direction this blog is headed. I’m quite satisfied with its current progress and everything above and beyond recently has been icing on the cake. However, there are still some areas for improvement.

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This subject is rather old, but I figure I should get this post out there since it’s been hanging out in draft form for quite some time. Let me state that I do think unions are valuable and have their place. Here’s how I see unions forming and why they’re important:

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Because I installed the top commentators plug in to reset monthly, I think each month I’ll mention the visitors that commented most, for what it’s worth. This is something I’ve noticed other blogs do, namely the Generation X Finance blog which I recently discovered and have been enjoying.

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But in regards to Internet Explorer and “creeping text”: The site looks dandy in Firefox and Safari, but I always hold my breath when it comes to Internet Explorer on a PC. So I checked out few pages and noticed this annoying problem in the comments - basically everything was slowly edging to the left, to the point where the text was appearing off the side of the page.

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Woohoo. Hard to believe, but this is post number 1,000.

I think this blog is now about a year and a half old and it’s been an entertaining ride.

Highlights: Three front page diggs, links from Valleywag / Techmeme / various others, iPhone correspondent in the field, writing for the Blog Herald, contests, funny / unique responses to posts.

Lowlights: Disparaging comments, scads of spam, site going down, fatigue.

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