Author: Andy Wibbels

(via Steve) Markdown is a fairly new markup language (a language that combines text and extra information) that is designed to be easy for a human to read and enter with a simple text editor. If you were using HTML tags and wanted to create formatted text, you would use: <em>This is some italicized text</em> […]

Debbie and BL pointed me to this one: Remember back when the blogosphere did the Trent Lott take-down? (Read Dave or Debbie’s accounts) Around that time someone had posted a video of how to open up a Kryptonite bike lock with a ballpoint pen. The blogosphere pounced and the company’s delay in acting hurt their […]

I missed this coming out a few days ago. Nutshell: In response to the death threats and the blogosphere’s (over) reaction to them, Tim O’Reilly (love his books) is proposing a code of conduct. Much handwringing and blogsturbation. To me it all just seems like such a complete waste of time. If you don’t want […]

To do this, simply add the following line to your robots.txt file: Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Blogger now available in 19 languages.

Dave announces: Technorati has completed our first major acquisition, a great company called Personal Bee. I’m excited about this for a number of reasons, which I’ll get into in a moment, but let me summarize by saying that Personal Bee is going to add some very powerful and engaging social publishing features to Technorati.com. And, […]

(via Lifehacker and Del.icio.us popular links) Jonny (link currently down probably due to traffic) uses the Lightning calendar extension to view his Google Calendar in Thunderbird email client and then syncs the Thunderbird calendar back to Gcal using the Provider extension for Thunderbird.

Sorta knocking around the blogs as I sort through old old RSS items. Via Master Darren: How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog

From the Chitika blog: Digg traffic is more than 3 times less likely to click on an Ad than Google traffic. Publishers who talk about Diggable topics like Apple, Games, Linux, etc seemed to get Dugg a lot. This indirectly confirms the demographic profile of the classic Digg user (think college-going Internet power user).

Neil writes: Be thorough with your submissions – when submitting a story make sure you add a description and relevant tags because this will help others find your story and bookmark it. Use popular tags – the tag cloud feature can help you understand what users like and what they dislike, so make sure you […]