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Wired Says…

Like Russell said “I’m in Wired News” in a piece titled Search Results Clogged by Blogs, there’s a quote from me. Here’s part of it:

He believes the trick to achieving prominent search rankings is fairly straightforward: “update frequently and provide good content.”

Yes, that’s me quoting Wired News quoting me… and that’s the so-called secret I tell everyone who wants a popular site. Of course ‘good’ is going to mean something different to everyone, this isn’t rocket science, right?

Aside from that though, it really seems like the old saying “any publicity is good publicity” right? I mean, what’s the difference between being famous and infamous? Well, supposedly if you are infamous then you are somehow bad, but ultimately they both mean “well known” right? I suppose until the search engines can start to determine the meaning and context of words and phrases we’ll be seeing the infamous alongside the famous. Which might actually be a good thing…

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egrep the regex

O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions Book
I’ve been reading O’Reilly’s Mastering Regular Expressions. The plot is a little thin, but it’s got some great characters…

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Traffic Stats

A quickie on traffic stats, it seems that for April 2003 we served up the RSS feed for this site three times more than we served up the home page, and the RSS feed accounted for over 25% of the page requests. Oh, and NetNewsWire was by far the most popular aggregator. (Way to go Brent!)

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A New Hope

Today an intern wanted to ask me some questions. He was working on a page that was giving him some problems, and as I looked at the source, and asked him some questions, he said he was authoring the page in XHTML Strict. I commended him, and asked about the debate of whether or not the Content-type should be text/html , application/xml, or some other variant, and while he wasn’t up on the subject, it just warms my heart to see the kids embracing the standards…

My friends, there is hope for the future…

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Busted

Just a warning, the RAD or ‘Radar Avoidance Device’ that I employ here was temporarily offline, and in the event I happen to appear on any sort of radar device, just ignore it…

Unless you don’t want to ignore it, in which case you could fully embrace it.

Either way…