Self Musings on Consolidating My Old Blogs
I’m slowly plotting my migration and consolidation of old blogs. I plan to move my old posts off my old main blo...Librem 5 Privacy-Focused Linux Phone Will Feature a GNOME Mobile UI Shell news.softpedia.com/news/libr…
Librem 5 Privacy-Focused Linux Phone Will Feature a GNOME Mobile UI Shell news.softpedia.com/news/libr…
“Pro-Beyoncé” vs. “Anti-Beyoncé”: 3,500 Facebook ads show the scale of Russian manipulation www.msn.com/en-us/new…
“Pro-Beyoncé” vs. “Anti-Beyoncé”: 3,500 Facebook ads show the scale of Russian manipulation www.msn.com/en-us/new…
Everyone is just cattle to the TSA. TSA Expresses ‘Regret’ After Asking Trudeau Minister to Remove Turban www.msn.com/en-us/new… #donotfly
Everyone is just cattle to the TSA. TSA Expresses ‘Regret’ After Asking Trudeau Minister to Remove Turban www.msn.com/en-us/new… #donotfly
Judge questions warrantless electronics searches at border www.msn.com/en-us/new…
Judge questions warrantless electronics searches at border www.msn.com/en-us/new…
“Small starts” to spur big growth - National Resources & Technical Assistance For Transit-Oriented Development todresources.org/blog/smal…
“Small starts” to spur big growth - National Resources & Technical Assistance For Transit-Oriented Development todresources.org/blog/smal…
Why you need good site search on your blog
Site search on a blog: The more content, the more posts and comments, the more you need site search. Especially if you d...Site search on a blog: The more content, the more posts and comments, the more you need site search. Especially if you do not have subject categories or tag clouds.
There are two types of site search: 1. Internal and 2. External
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Internal: Some blog platform/CMS software had their own built in site search. These can be a mixed bag for relevent results, but they provide coverage right away.
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External: Like a site search box from Google, Bing or some other search engine, can be better for some blogs, especially very popular blogs. But if your blog is just starting out, it might take awhile, even months, for the search engine’s spider to index every page on your blog. And then the search engine may not recrawl very often to index new posts. This will change gradually, time, popularity, link backs and frequency of posting, post length all factor into how frequently a search engine re-spiders a blog. So on a blog just starting out there may be gaps.
New blogs might want to go with the Internal search option early on and add the external search later. If your blog platform does not provide Internal site search then add an external search box straight off. Do your best for your readers.
Google still appears to provide free site search. Duckduckgo also has site search. Yandex also offers a free site search option.
According to Amazon, I should be getting the new US version Nokia 6.1 (2018) phone on Monday. I’d have liked to have had it to play with over the weekend but at least I have a date certain rather than sometime, any day, next week range I had before.
According to Amazon, I should be getting the new US version Nokia 6.1 (2018) phone on Monday. I’d have liked to have had it to play with over the weekend but at least I have a date certain rather than sometime, any day, next week range I had before.
Back before Google, most search engines, there were about 6 - 8 of them, were pretty bad. We largely used human edited web directories to navigate the web. To make a long story short, Google eventually became so good that web directories became obsolete.
For the most part I agree, web directories are obsolete. But I can see an exception: local directories, particularly covering a geographic area that attracts a lot of visitors and tourists. However you cannot just put together a heirachical set of links like we did in the old days. A modern tourist directory needs to be an authoritative guide. It needs to incorporate the editor’s unique local knowedge and judgement in it’s listings, something Google with all it’s fancy technology cannot do. The model is more that of a dining guide. So the listing needs to contain a review, telling the traveller why one hotel is better than the others, what makes it unique, what dining, sites and entertainment is nearby and within walking distance. Same for restaurants, local live theaters. You must lead your readers to find local things that might not have a web page but are still interesting. If you have a podcasting skill, then offering audio tours is possible. Maps are good. Google, Bing even Yelp can’t do those things. You have to set yourself up as the definitive authority on your little patch.
Back before Google, most search engines, there were about 6 - 8 of them, were pretty bad. We largely used human edited web directories to navigate the web. To make a long story short, Google eventually became so good that web directories became obsolete.
For the most part I agree, web directories are obsolete. But I can see an exception: local directories, particularly covering a geographic area that attracts a lot of visitors and tourists. However you cannot just put together a heirachical set of links like we did in the old days. A modern tourist directory needs to be an authoritative guide. It needs to incorporate the editor’s unique local knowedge and judgement in it’s listings, something Google with all it’s fancy technology cannot do. The model is more that of a dining guide. So the listing needs to contain a review, telling the traveller why one hotel is better than the others, what makes it unique, what dining, sites and entertainment is nearby and within walking distance. Same for restaurants, local live theaters. You must lead your readers to find local things that might not have a web page but are still interesting. If you have a podcasting skill, then offering audio tours is possible. Maps are good. Google, Bing even Yelp can’t do those things. You have to set yourself up as the definitive authority on your little patch.
The Trump administration just forced smartphone maker ZTE to shut down | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-poli…
The Trump administration just forced smartphone maker ZTE to shut down | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-poli…
Midsomer Murders Season 20 is getting in the way of my blogging.
Midsomer Murders Season 20 is getting in the way of my blogging.
We need a third global search engine that does their own crawls and keeps their own database. Heck I’d settle for an English language only search engine if it was easier to start that way. I like Bing. I like search engines that use Bing feed, but we need more.
We need a third global search engine that does their own crawls and keeps their own database. Heck I’d settle for an English language only search engine if it was easier to start that way. I like Bing. I like search engines that use Bing feed, but we need more.
Notes for Total World Domination:
Must decide on army. 1. Army of Invincible Robots? Expensive. Large carbon footprint. 2. Army of Zombies? Will work for food. Smelly. 3. Army of Flying Monkeys? Out of work since OZ went all politically correct. Will work cheap. Easily distracted by bananas.
Notes for Total World Domination:
Must decide on army. 1. Army of Invincible Robots? Expensive. Large carbon footprint. 2. Army of Zombies? Will work for food. Smelly. 3. Army of Flying Monkeys? Out of work since OZ went all politically correct. Will work cheap. Easily distracted by bananas.