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2009/01/14

What To Do With This Site?

I mentioned this before, but this site was birthed from something left behind by another site that I didn't originally create or develop. Read some of the previous archives for more details:

I felt weird about it at the time mainly because of the traffic, Google Pagerank and the promotion that had previously gone into promoting the "techlifeblogged.blogspot.com" sub-domain. I felt luck to have gotten it, but didn't want to take advantage of it too much.

With PR updates over the last several months, the value has dropped to zero and the traffic is low. There are still lots of visitors to older pages originally created by Scott (where I redirect them to his site as best I can) and a fair number of visitors to new posts that I've created.

But it may be time to end this project. I have too many pots percolating at once and this year promises to be even busier. My plan at the moment is to update the page template to something simple and post the content over FTP to my own site. From there, I won't necessarily delete the whole site as it is still working in the occasional redirect. But the URL will become a sub-page or subdirectory off of my home page. Since he hasn't stopped by, I'm going to assume that Scott won't mind if I do this.

Anyhow, that's the direction for 2009.

2007/09/15

Google News - Sci/Tech

I recommend Google News - Sci/Tech as a home page for those looking for the most recent and most linked-to news stories.

You can also add a feed of the most recent relevant news stories to your iGoogle home page or Google Reader. Add to Google

2007/08/10

WorldWideWeb - The Birth?

There has been a long historical debate on when the Internet first came about. The first thing you have to do to keep it very straight is to define the terms and whether the debate is talking about the first network, the "World Wide Web" or the larger Internet. Since so many people at all levels of expertise use these terms interchangeably --and their organic terms anyhow-- it can get difficult and confusing.

However, there was a moment on a usenet message board system where an expert in these matters named Tim Berners-Lee first outlined and proposed the WorldWideWeb as a project. Thanks largely to the fact that these mailing lists have been archived in many places, including Google Groups, we can go back and see the message as it was first posted, typos and all.

The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.

The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.

Read the full message on WorldWideWeb Summary.

2007/03/02

Answer From Blogger

Well, this was not the answer I was hoping for, but it was what I expected.

From: support@blogger.com Blogger Help
To: arcojedi
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:40:30 -0600
Subject: Re: Permissions

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in. To move a blog to another account on the new version of Blogger you will need to invite yourself or someone else to join the blog. To do this, go to the Settings | Permissions tab, click on the "Add Authors" button, enter the email address of the person you would like the blog to be moved to and click "Invite". An invitation will then be sent to the email address you provided. Open this email invitation, click on the link to join the blog, and enter the Google Account username and password that you want the blog moved to. You should then see the blog on the dashboard of that account. You will then have to login to your other Blogger account and add your second account as an admin member of the blog by clicking on "Guest" from the Settings | Permissions tab.

Please note that currently you will be unable to remove yourself as a member of the blog if you are the owner of the blog. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve Blogger.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

Original Message Follows:


From: <arcojedi@____.com>
Subject: Permissions
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:09:51 -0800

Hello,

I am attempting to transfer the ownership of this blog to someone else. This is a blog on blogspot and we both are under new blogger.

We are attempting to follow the instructions here - http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41448 - and I have successfully added Scott as an admin. However, when he attempts to remove me by following these instructions here - http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41465 - he is unable to do so. Please see the following post with screenshot to understand the issue more clearly. http://techlifeblogged.blogspot.com/2007/02/plans-awry.html

If there is any way that this could be addressed, we'd appreciate it. I would be happy even if the blog were deleted and added to his account. Just so long as no one else (e.g. a spammer) were to nab it in the interim, this would not be a problem.

The documentation help files are outdated as of the new version of Blogger. This is an issue that has been discussed on the Blogger Help Group several times. http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-howdoi/search?group=blogger-help-howdoi&q=How+do+I+move+a+blog+between+accounts%3F&qt_g=Search+this+category If you could address this specific to my issue and make sure it is listed under known issues and addressed, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!
::Jim

Oh well. What can I expect? It's free, right?

2007/01/30

Google Pagerank

As of today, the pagerank on this site as measured in both Firefox and IE is currently 4. When I signed up for the blog, it registered as a 5 but has dipped a little.

I've mentioned Google PR on my blog multiple times.

But having a site with PR of 4 or 5 is pretty impressive. My question that I'm wrestling with morally is whether or not I should really USE this site or abandon it. The previous owner was a spammer. If I benefit from this, am I not also associating myself with this spammer?

The question is not JUST a moral one. Google may have this site on a bad list, and any site or person associated with it might get marked as spammy also. Hmm...

Any comments? I've installed Google Analytics on this site to see if I can discover more about if anyone is coming to this site and from where. I'll post results when I have them (probably in a few days).

2006/04/03

Add Your Agenda to Your Gmail

Here is another back-dated post to direct folks to the right spot. Stopdesign.com has a good article on using Google Calendar, and it links here referencing...

Add agenda to Gmail

This one is a little more involved, but useful if you’re primarily a Gmail user and don't keep Calendar running all the time. [read more]

The content that is being referenced here is available on TLW - Add Your Agenda To Your Gmail. Go check it out.