Google Analytics Results

I've got an update about this site. First off, I found a site simply by doing a Google search for 'Tech Life Blogged' and I discovered a site that was most likely the original prior to posting the blog over FTP. Please visit the actual and most likely original TechLifeBlogged.

Secondly, the preliminary Google Analytics results have shown that only ONE other person besides me visited this site in the last 24 hours. It was about noon today CST and they were from or near Williston, Vermont. The clicked a link from Lifehacker.org. They probably didn't find what they were looking for and left quickly. And hey, if that was you, sorry!

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.

• Google Hiccup Gone For Now
• Let's Do the Google Shuffle Again
• Alexa
• Google Pagerank Dip
• Google Pagerank Shuffle
• Holy Pagerank Three Batman
• Google Pagerank Achieved

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).

Tech Life Blogged

Okay, what has just happened tonight was that I was browsing around and found a link to a blogspot site that was giving 404 page not found errors. I was sad cause the content I wanted was on it. I checked the root of the blog but was still getting 404 error. Curious, I decided to try signing up for this subdomain and assumed it wouldn't work.

Well, it did and I'm faced with a quandary. I now have a blog that somebody else used and worked on for a while. It's gone, either lost or abandoned, but now what do I do with it? I feel weird, like I cheated or am guilty of something.

I am not a hacker NOR am a black-hat person at all. I did this rather randomly. However this site exists and is now registered to me.

Further investigation has shown that it was one of those rather nasty spammers who signed up for a blogspot account but have it redirect to their spammy domain. Check the Google cache if you doubt me. Still I felt very weird, like I'm painting a big target sign on my forehead for what I just did.

If you have a complaint about this, please post a comment below. If this is your former blog and you want it back please comment as well and I'm sure we can find a way to work it out so that you get it back after we prove it was yours.

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.

Blog Site Redesign

This is another post-dated blog to catch the incoming link from a blog comment that Scott posted a long time ago. My motive is to prevent the 404 error from displaying and get folks to the new location of the page on Tech.Life.Blogged..

I've just uploaded some template changes to my blog. The changes are mostly to the sidebar and a new "Save to del.icio.us" link for each article. Here are the details about the changes.

Per the details in the post, there was most likely another redesign later, but a lot of the specific elements survive.

How I Create Thos Del.icio.us Link Posts

Here is another back-dated post to direct folks to the right spot. This was the original post that started it all for me back in February. Read more about my experience on my blog about TechLifeBlogged. If you are looking for the post that was originally here written by Scott, see below.

How I Create those Del.icio.us link posts

Down yonder in one of the del.icio.us link posts Randy asked how I set up those postings. I thought I'd blog the process if anyone is curious.

The content that was here is available on TechLifeBlogged - How I Create those Del.icio.us link posts. Go check it out.

Tools for Viewing OPML in Your Browser

I have created this post because of the backlink from OPML - An Awesome Experiment. When Scott Kingery ran this blog URL, there was a post that was referenced from there.

There's been a LOT of buzz lately about OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language). TechCrunch did their awesome experiment using Dave Winer's OPML editor and that has fanned the flames as well...

I feel that it is important to link to the new location for this post. Please go to Tools for Viewing OPML in your browser at TechLifeBlogged.