Tag Archive for 'Web'

www is depreciated here

I am trying to clean up my duplicate WordPress content here at ecrosstexas.com.

Today I updated my .htacess file to redirect www.ecrosstexas.com to ecrosstexas.com as WWW is deprectiated. I have been using just ecrosstexas.com for some time now as my preferred URL. Of course, I could have used this plugin instead of hacking my .htacess file. A word of caution Cool URIs don’t change.

In order to answer this question, we must first recall the definition of WWW:

World Wide Web:
n. Abbr. WWW
1) The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
2) n : a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.

Last week I updated my template’s header.php robots meta tag. Now <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> is only in the <head> of my main blog page, individual entries, and pages. My archives (monthly, categories, etc) all get <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />. Details can be found in How to Make a WordPress Blog Duplicate Content Safe.

2006 Google Zeitgeist

Google has announced their year-end zeitgeist data. Interesting data here.

Google.com - Top Searches in 2006
1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki

Kind of sad looking at current events. Darfur comes in at #4 on the where is list. Only one political scandal on the scandals list (Foley).

Gravatar sucks, now what?

In recent weeks there has been an explosion of interest in alternatives to gravatar for adding avatars/images to a blog:

What about OpenID and all the Web 2.0 sites (MySpace, YouTube, etc) I think the last thing we need is 5 or 6 competing and incompatible solutions. What about one service to rule them all—Buddy Cards? With a bit of coding I would think that 30 Boxes could add MyBlogLog, gravats, pavatar, and more.

I installed Buddy Cards a few weeks back and I have been very impressed with it.

Encourage 30 Boxes to jump on this today! Here is an active thread on the 30 Boxes forum.

Premature Joy

Premature Joy
Rats, I spoke too soon. Upon closer inspection it appears that my technorati troubles are still not solved.

WordPress 2.1 solved my Technorati troubles

Technorati Updated
Hooray! It looks like the upgrade to WordPress 2.1 and use of the static front page has solved my technorati problems.