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Either Al or dws highlighted this About.com guide to weblogs: Web logs, or "Blogs" are a great way to put your opinions up on the Internet. Use programs on your own site, or host your site on a Web log system. This concludes our title-free Saturday afternoon batch o' blogging.

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Despite the griping from the blogosphere and from the adult chamber of commerce, Jon Udell say he's "delighted with the recent changes in Google's ranking algorithm." Wired News also puts in its two cents.

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3:11:16 PM    say what []

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Al Macintyre's building a directory of blog software

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3:08:35 PM    say what []

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John Robb mentioned ThinkBlank today. I followed the instructions and added the MetaLinker code to my home template when I linked to the site a few days ago, but I'm not seeing any metalinks. What am I doing wrong?

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3:07:26 PM    say what []

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Inflatable Sheep was blogging four years before the term was coined.

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3:05:25 PM    say what []

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It's too nice outside to sit around writing lots of blog entries, but some interesting stuff did show up in my aggregator this morning, so I'm going to experiment with autoposting a few untitled entries, to see if the bare filtering of the information provides any value to this blog.

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2:57:00 PM    say what []

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Peering into my referrer logs this morning, I saw a reader coming from Syndic8, so I decided to take a look at how this site looks through that syndicator's display.

I noticed that RFB is listed as not having the metadata that Syndic8 looks for, so I followed a link to some metadata help, followed a further link to the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names to get the longitude, latitude, and a numerical code for Oakland, and came up with these new metadata entries for the HEAD section of my home template:

<META NAME="dc.creator.e-mail" CONTENT="contactus@radiofreeblogistan.com">
<META NAME="dc.creator.name" CONTENT="Christian Crumlish (xian)">
<META NAME="tgn.id" CONTENT="7014250">
<META NAME="tgn.name" CONTENT="Oakland">
<META NAME="geo.position" CONTENT=" 37.800;-122.267">
<META NAME="geo.placename" CONTENT="Oakland, California">
<META NAME="geo.country" CONTENT="US">
<META NAME="dmoz.id" CONTENT="Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/">

While investigating that last meta tag (name="dmoz.id"), I discovered that Radio Free Blogistan is not listed at DMOZ, so I submitted it in the Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs category.

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9:34:52 AM    say what []

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