Scoble loses blog archive

Robert Scoble has an old blog hosted at UserLand, or rather had. It’s now gone. Oh, UserLand, where did my old blogs go? Yikes, the first couple of years of my blog are gone. UserLand took down those blogs. I don’t remember getting an email warning me about that, but I might have (junk filters … Keep reading

Google Tunes / Blogging Methods / WordPress

Analyst claims so: “We believe that Google is in the midst of creating its own iTunes competitor, which we’ve dubbed ‘Google Tunes. We think this is a logical step, now that the nascent Google Video product has been introduced.” read more | digg story Hmmm. Does anyone know of a non-evil, non-megalomaniac search engine I could use? … Keep reading

Links 26/1/06

GPLv4 – just about funny, but even for geek hunour it’s borderline Barwick plans England coach talks – my choice: Guus Hiddinck. The thought that the likes of Curbishley, Allardyce or – God help us – Steve McClaren might get the job because of their Englishness is absured. Stuart Pearce maybe, but he needs more … Keep reading

Stuff from MJR

Couple of interesting points from MJR: Annoying blog comment misfeatures: letter images Just tried to leave a comment on Sasquach wears a yellow hat at blogger.com – it has one of those annoying “type the letters from the distorted image” screens (which don’t work well [w3c]). Even when I switch images on, I can’t get … Keep reading

Performancing’s Blog Improvements

Performancing: Quick and Easy Blog Improvements Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not found”? Even better for you, do you provide handy links to your top content, a … Keep reading