Mat Bowles ([info]matgb) wrote,
@ 2008-04-26 06:34:00
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Linkspam for 26-4-2008


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[info]miss_s_b
2008-04-26 01:43 pm UTC (link)
Iain Weaver is a lovely bloke, but I find myself unable to read his blog so often due to his weird locking system and stuff that I have taken the RSS feed off my list in frustration. I therefore find it ironic that he makes the point he does about about losing readers via using software they don't like in the post you link to...

That tattoo is amazing, and I want it.

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[info]matgb
2008-04-26 02:16 pm UTC (link)
Most of his posts ([info]tsitsoss_rss) are open though, the private ones are the equivalent of what he used to post as [info]daweaver, it's similar to a semi-friends locked journal and people needing to log in to read your private stuff.

Only he doesn't trust OpenID either, thus you need to register with him...

But he's also never really been bothered about size of readership, merely quality, whereas a lot of blogs using Feedburner are doing so as they think it'll increase exposure, which it will, but at the cost of some privacy.

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[info]miss_s_b
2008-04-26 02:19 pm UTC (link)
That's the feed I had. I reckon at least half of them are locked. It's very annoying.

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[info]matgb
2008-04-26 02:30 pm UTC (link)
Must've been a spike, of the ten on the current frontpage of the test filter I just made:
http://matgb.livejournal.com/friends/Weaver

only one is restricted, and that clearly says so with the request access link. It's possible one of his referral blockers was stopping it from going, he blocks all links from Google, including Gmail. The ubiquity of Gmail makes it thus even harder to share his posts with other bloggers...

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[info]andrewhickey
2008-04-26 03:56 pm UTC (link)
That's just bizarre. I can understand not using Google - I have great reservations about them myself, though at the same time I still use things like Gmail because the service is very good. And I can understand not allowing Google to archive your site. But not allowing incoming links from some sites defeats the whole purpose of the web, the open access to information.

Unfortunately, Google's power appears to be essentially an emergent phenomenon, and there's not much you can do about it short of reprogramming everyone's brain. And the fact is, despite what he says, Google is still the best search engine around - I still remember the days of using altavista or Yahoo, or Ask Jeeves, and Google just *works*, unlike those sites... and a search engine at least as good as Google is *necessary*. I'll be the first to start using something better when something better comes along...

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[info]foxfirefey
2008-04-26 10:25 pm UTC (link)
It's possible one of his referral blockers was stopping it from going, he blocks all links from Google, including Gmail. The ubiquity of Gmail makes it thus even harder to share his posts with other bloggers...

Wait a minute, wait a minute--is that supposed to accomplish anything other than annoy people using Google?

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[info]draxar
2008-04-27 05:00 pm UTC (link)
The synecdochic thing was interesting, reasonably balanced, and thankfully free of overwhelming anger; I read ferret's stuff, and while I definitely see the existence of flaws in what he posted, I did find much of the reaction to it to be such that I bit my tongue and didn't comment, despite a level of disagreement to their arguments and the way they portrayed it.

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