End of the Blogroll
The first beta of WordPress 3.5 is out, and along with new and improved functionality, one feature is being removed: the blogroll. Well, technically it’s only being removed on new installations. If you...
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The REAL Problem with Twitter
Forget Ashton Kutcher and Oprah, forget #unfollowfriday, forget 25 Random Evil Things about Twitter — the key problems with the social media / microblogging / broadcast IM / whatever you want to call...
View ArticleWhy Link Length Matters
Twitter writes that link length shouldn’t matter, but the zillions of URL shortening services out there show that, for now, it does. But why? There are two main reasons to shorten* a link: There’s a...
View ArticleNew Plugin: Nice Links for Twitter Tools
Lately I’ve been linkblogging via Twitter, and using Alex King’s Twitter Tools to build a weekly digest in WordPress. The problem is that since I’m pulling the posts from Twitter, I’m stuck with...
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A Decade of Dead Links
I turned on the broken link checker plugin at lunchtime, and let it run through the site over the next few hours* before checking back this evening. Holy crap, there’s a lot of outdated links on this...
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