Archive for May, 2007

Increase your Technorati rank with a Viralink!

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Daniel turned me on to this Technorati-boosting link building exercise, courtesy of JakelDaily. I might as well give it a shot; I could use a boost up a few hundred thousand places.
———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions below this line———
Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my […]

Spamonomics: The business of junk mail

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

This is a piece I wrote for the Medill News Service back in March. It was picked up by a newspaper but heavily edited, so here is the uncut version. Might as well put all that journalism to good use! It goes without saying, of course, that I in no way condone spamming. Is going […]

WordPress Tip: Edit timestamps for good (or evil!)

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Look at the calendar on the right sidebar of this blog and you’ll notice that every day thus far is bold, meaning that I’ve made at least one post per day since I started blogging on May 1st. Along the way, I hate to admit that I missed a few days, but keeping the calendar […]

Awww, comment spam! How cute!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

I know my blog must be spreading a little further because I finally got my first piece of comment spam today. Of course, it was blocked by Akismet so I don’t really mind. In fact, I’d like to think that the volume of spam that one’s blog receives is proportional to its popularity, but I […]

New WordPress plugin installed: Welcome Back!

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Regular readers will notice that they’re now greeted on the right sidebar. If you’ve got a MyBlogLog avatar, that’s displayed too. Hopefully this will work to build community spirit and get readers coming back…not to mention subscribing to my full RSS feed.
The plugin that powers this nifty feature is Andrea Micheloni’s “Welcome Back.” It was […]