We're crawling along here, with two other soon-to-be-blogs in development. And of course we're in production on the Zine, so ... long time no post.
This evening I ran across Blogger's page for advanced use ("blogger hacks"), a page I've tripped over before. Thought I'd mention it here and add it to our Blogging Resources list in the sidebar ... for the code-adventurous among us.
I didn't realize there was a Google Blog until I surfed across it this morning. If you have any interest in how to search, and how search engines think (or how search-engine coders think), this may be the blog for you!
Well, I've been thinking about playing with another blogging software, WordPress, to see if it would be more user-friendly for MFDN bloggers, but I came across this today at Slashdot:
The Real Nick W writes "Wordpress, an incredibly popular Open Source Blogging system was found to be spamming google by inserting hidden links to junk content on high paying Adsense keywords such as mesothelioma and debt consolidation. Following Threadwatch picking up the story an anonymous Google rep appeared in the original thread admonishing bloggers not to use sneaky tactics to rank highly for "duplicate content" such as the 100,000 hidden articles on the Wordpress site. The articles have now dissapeared from Google and it remains to be seen whether Google will ban Wordpress outright as they tend to do when SEO's and web dev's pull these kinds of stunts." (Wordpress Banned by Google for Spamming)
