Pink Numbers [dive into mark] - my opinion is that being able to link more specifically is good, although for most purposes word-specific is more specific than necessary. To be clean and unobtrusive, perhaps use <p id="p10"> for the anchor, and then maybe an empty <a> tag with a width big enough for a background image that is a hash mark to link to it. Other ways would work too though. And this doesn't just apply to text, but any type of content.
For the record, purple numbers have seemed like a good idea to me since I first heard of them, perhaps a year or two ago?, and are being talked about now thanks to a certain Tim Bray.
A Day In The Life Of BBCi Search - a great analysis of the searches people do on the BBCi website, and how the engine is improved by using this information. Search result "intervention" is something that I myself have planned on implementing more.
Mozilla Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded - about two weeks ago I made the switch to Firefox (from Internet Explorer). It took a total of about two minutes to "learn" how to do in Firefox what I was used to doing in IE, and not much more time to begin using some of the things that Firefox has that IE doesn't. I will not be switching back. I'm already wondering, “why would anyone be using IE?”
Scripting News: 5/10/2004: "I bet Sun buys Bloglines" - yes, I know, enough with the metablogging. Anyhow, that wouldn't surprise me. I've been thinking lately that Bloglines is really going somewhere. Mark Fletcher is also no stranger to making great services (oneList) and selling them to larger companies (Yahoo!).
Bloglines is popular enough now, I think, that it can effect change. What if Bloglines implemented web-based calendaring? (yeah, yeah, serious feature creep). If they supported events embedded in feeds just like NewsGator does, I can see many more feed-producers beginning to make use of this. Not to mention that subscribing to a calendar (iCal format, I guess) is not much different than subscribing to an RSS/Atom feed. I used the Bloglines feedback form yesterday to make a FOAF suggestion, but I rather doubt that will go anywhere. Update 2: Mark replies and says that FOAF is somewhere on his long to-do list. Great!
Update: I was just thinking that the calendaring I spoke of doesn't actually have to be Bloglines. Your profile could include a calendaring service URL field, and then when events came through RSS, the "add to calendar" link could send the request to that service. And almost as soon as I thought this, Mark announces the The Bloglines Mozilla toolkit. Mozilla already has a calendar! Implementing "add to mozilla calendar" may actually be really easy for Bloglines.
Curiouser and curiouser!: (ENT2.0 mod RSS1.0) = 0 - I think that ideas, even an idea as great as topics in blogs, need a lot of time to bounce around across the blogosphere, get dented and reinvented several times, before they finally explode in popularity. So, time to do some denting, bouncing, and reinventing?
Okay, nobody follow the new individual-post permalinks, and pretend the [temporary] thing you see on each post isn't there. If you want to comment on my blog, use the same old commenting system as before. Blogger's new system still has some (plenty, as I've already noticed) issues that need to be worked out. And I don't feel like republishing all my archives again right now.
All that being said, it looks like Blogger finally woke up. I won't be blogging too much about it here; if you're interested, it'll probably be blogged everywhere else in the universe for the next few days at least. I'll only mention one thing. Now that there's user profiles, why not FOAF? Marc and others with a more powerful voice than I need to raise this issue. Update: Danny Ayers is thinking in a similar vien. And naturally, so is Marc Canter. Judith too.
I learn (oddly, from
Phil Ringnalda in my newsreader, that
Blogger (that's what I'm publishing with) just got a serious upgrade. Comments? Welcome to several years ago Blogger, nice to see you're still around. I must take a look...
If kid's diary is online, should mom peek? | csmonitor.com - Via
Dave. I know and expect anyone to see either this blog (whose URL is on my business card, which I give out plenty of) or my more personal (photos) LiveJournal, and that includes my parents. Nothing is password-protected or anything. I remember
Mark Pilgrim once mentioning that his (now former) boss read his blog. I have certainly read things on others’s blogs/journals that relied on the principle of “person X probably doesn't know about this page.”
Library Stuff
I'm convinced that half of the stuff that I post here wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't "met" Michael Fagan. Well, maybe an eighth of the stuff. Today, in his del.icio.us page (I'm telling you, grab that RSS Feed), he links to Google Apps, which has a few neat Google tools, like Glocal News, and Google:Define (which I absolutely adore).
And for you SEO people out there, there is Adsense serves...
Great find Michael. And thanks for the great resources over the past few years (has it been that long?)
So, when's the next time you're going to be near Toronto? Too bad we missed each other the first time. And yeah, I think you're right. It
has been that long. I feel old ;-). Among many other things, I probably wouldn't be working on converting all my mailing lists into
Bloglines feeds now if it weren't for you.
In a very slightly related topic, my FOAF file mentions that I've got a del.icio.us account. I suppose I should a) bother the FOAF harvesters to use this data, and b) bother FOAF writers into creating this data for others.
removing google ads from RSS - I knew this was going to happen, although I had figured on Google being smart enough to get there first, as opposed to them C&D-ing a blogger who hacked it up. Via
Dave.
Conflict Map - interactive map-based interface to wars and conflicts of the 20
th century. Via
Blogdex.
WFMZ-TV Online - my (intentionally non-technical, and labeled as such)
article on RSS is linked to with the text
You can read more about the technical aspects (if you really want to) here.
There's perspective for ya.
Fix Navigation to Improve Conversions, Part 3 "A fascinating thing about watching visitors navigate is recognizing that repeat visitors typically use sites differently than first-time visitors. You might consider changing your navigation based on this, as Amazon.com changes the tabs displayed based on purchase and browsing patterns."
well, if Amazon agrees with me, there must be something in it. See my
previous post on the subject. Via
Luigi.
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