Your comment is special, have a star

My recent reflection on blogging currency (that would be backlinks) deserves a follow-up. In seeking the balance between contextual value and link-love reward, user comments come to the forefront of a digital war. The epic battle involves search engines, millions of competing websites, and even more spam. Here are generally two camps of thought:

nofollow

The default [...]

Pi Day 2007 – It’s delicious!

Happy Pi Day! Not quite xkcd level of humour, but twisted pencil’s Cherry Pi comes pretty close.

Math, it’s delicious! And an excellent excuse to go out, and enjoy pie at a local coffee shop.

Tech link train wreck – final stop

The newest meme spreading through the blogosphere, is the so called “tech link train”, with a very obvious purpose of gaming both Technorati and Google ranking systems. Links are the currency of the internets – Technorati increases your rank for new links from blogs, while Google increases your rank for links from pages of similar [...]