Jeff's Radio Weblog

 Steve Kirks: John Gruber, author of Markdown has been working with me behind the scenes to come up with an appropriate version of Markdown for Radio UserLand webloggers. We concluded months ago that a UserTalk port of the Markdown Perl script was in order. Marc Barrot of activeRenderer fame has spent the last three weeks doing the port in his spare time -- no small feat considering he's a new father, too. I installed the private beta tool today and it's wonderful. The port is a work of UserTalk art following the spirit of John's Perl script beautifully. We need to add a web interface for prefs and some links back to John's site for help with the syntax and more...
[house of warwick]   12:53:08 AM  Link  Google It!  

 Rogers Cadenhead: I haven't had much luck calling attention to the downside of the nofollow attribute, but one of my scenarios is quickly coming true: a large Internet site is hoarding its Google PageRank by using nofollow throughout the site. Wikipedia has placed nofollow on all external links, based on my spot check of random entries such as Gregorian calendar, MacGuffin, and Albert R. Broccoli. This change was made with little if any discussion, though there appears to be an effort now to decide whether it should be rescinded...
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