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Monday, July 15, 2002

Duncan Wilcox on Google's integrity. [Scripting News] Speculation on how Google ranks pages. 8:51:46 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

BlogToaster Updates. it now has two additional [related] commands, FIND and CHECK. One of the problems with using BlogToaster, even with the IMPORT command, is getting the correct URL to watch, these two commands hopefully make it easier to find the correct URL to watch. For example do FIND slashdot BlogToaster says: SlashDot.Org : add http://www.slashdot.org/ To find out that you should be watching http://www.slashdot.org/ and not http://slashdot.org/ [which is what the RSS feed says] The CHECK command will return a list of URLs you are watching that haven't ping weblogs.com recently [currently within the last week, but I plan to extend this once I've captured more data]. In some cases the lack of pings is because you're watching the wrong URL, use the FIND command to get the right URL to watch. Finally I started a BlogToaster mailing list to discuss features / releases etc. [Simon Fell] 8:45:29 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Paolo: "Weblogging is not just a way to socialize, it's also a way to do business and to create relationships with people all over the world." [Scripting News] 7:59:30 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Excellent AP article about integrity in search engines and the US Federal Trade Commission. "Google was the only search engine that appeared to meet all the criteria laid out by regulators." [Scripting News] 7:52:04 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

RSSEngine. Jenny Levine: James Linden is going to town with RSS! He's moving the Snewp feeds to a new location at RSSEngine, which also has its own blog (naturally you can subscribe to it). He's providing 180 feeds right now... [The Shifted Librarian] [Jeff's Radio Weblog] 7:51:35 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Roadrunner Censoring Its Internet Service?. RoadRunner Blocking Use of Kazaa "An anonymous reader submits: "You should know that RoadRunner is quietly blocking the use of Kazaa in certain markets. Particularly in Texas, they have some sort of port scanner in place which scans for Kazaa activity and then disables use of that port, rendering the program completely useless. Grokster, iMesh, and all other FastTrack programs are similarly affected. Yet RoadRunner is not disclosing the practice in any way. Not only that, I'm troubled by the possibility of them arbitrarily choosing to block other programs in the future. If this becomes more widespread, they will have many angry (and former) customers." The poster provides these four links to forum postings with more information: one; two; three; four." [Slashdot] If this is true, it's wrong on so many levels. [Jenny Levine: Tech Goddess] 7:37:17 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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