From Scribbling.net comes a useful article called Help the Googlebot understand your web site which lists about a dozen tips for structuring your site for the best experience with the Google indexing software (Googlebot). Cantoni.org already handles most of these suggestions except for the additiona meta robots tag which should cause it to not index my main page which is frequently changing. When I recently changed from daily to individual archiving with MovableType, I saw a big improvement in search results through Google. With each post having its own title, the results were much better. (As opposed to searching for…
PalmSource has just published a new “Palm Expert Guide” for Weblogging. Created by John Winstanley (of MyPalmLife), this guide explores several ways for managing your weblog from a Palm device. The Expert Guides are a good collection of topic-specific software and solutions written and maintained by users. [Via MyPalmLife]
Peter Rojas (a freelance writer and co-founder of Gizmodo) just launched a new site: Engadget. From his introduction: Back in August of 2002 I helped found Gizmodo, the gadgets weblog. It was a labor of love, but never intended as more than a part-time freelance job. After nineteen months I’ve decided to take a risk and launch a new site that will let me do what I want: Blog about gadgets full-time. In partnership with The Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN), I’ve launched Engadget (www.engadget.com), where I’m already posting obsessively about everything exciting on gadgets and personal technology. For anyone who…
Robert Scoble hits some good points about blogging relationship networks — The truth is, my RSS News Aggregator is a far better “friends network” than Friendster or Orkut are. The problem is that it's hard to build a real friends network in blogs. Why? Cause you gotta do work. You've gotta read someone every day for a while. You've gotta blog and build up a relationship network. You've gotta link to them. You've gotta smooze with them at conferences and geek dinners. That's all hard. But Friendster, Orkut, and Linked In, all promise a shortcut. “Get 100 friends without doing…
Two Palm OS developers have recently created blogs: “Palm OS® Protein News(All about the new native application model used in Palm OS® Cobalt)”:http://palmosprotein.blogs.com/ and “Combee on Palm OS(Ben Combee)”:http://palmos.combee.net/ …