Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
It seems I need to clarify something. This post won’t tell you how to fix Blogger’s idiocy, nor how to make the process of enabling comments easier. It will only instruct you on how to go about doing it. So for those of you who are thinking I’m going to walk you through changing Blogger’s assinine policy that isn’t happening here, sorry
In order to combat spoofing Blogger has decided to require that any blog which wishes to allow comment links needs to enable Open ID comment authentication. It is a relatively easy feature (and I use that term loosely) to activate. Take the following steps and you should be fine.
- Log into draft.blogger.com
- Click settings on the blog you want to enable it on
- Click comments near the top
- Put a mark in registered users
Thanks goes to Windyridge who pointed out that blogger.com no longer allows links to non-blogger sites in comments. Clearly Blogger dropped the ball on this as they didn’t even bother to notify their own users of the change or make any effort to make this information easily accesible to the general public.
That takes care of the blogger account holders, but what about the readers? What do they have to do? They need to setup an OpenID account. When you first get to the page it gives you a very limited number of OpenID resources. You can however visit this post about setting up a custom OpenID which will walk you through making one for any website/url. Can anyone say pain in the ass?
I’d say this is just ANOTHER reason that users of the free blogger service should seriously consider switching to Word Press.
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Random Questions and Thoughts
- Social networking/bookmarking
- Is it just me or does it seems like almost everyday a new social networking or social bookmarking site pops up?
I doubt any of those lists are fully up to date either. Chances are there are quite of few more of these things out there. Is there such a thing as overkill when it comes to this Web 2.0 “social” stuff??
- What is offensive?
A recent post over at John Cow admonished their readers not to be… well it rhymes with runts… and an apparently former reader of the blog had some pretty strong words to say in reaction to it. My question is it truly as offensive as this person makes it out to be? That might seem like a no-brainer to some, but I’ve got many friends here in the good ol’ US of A who run around using that word all the time. Mothers to daughters, daughters to mothers, girlfriends to other girlfriends, boyfriends to girlfriends, etc. I guess I’m wondering if it isn’t losing some of its sting due to familiarity. The “F” word for example is quite common whereas not all that long ago it was considered the granddaddy of all offensive words.- Page rank madness
Is it just me or is this whole pagerank madness just that, madness? A show of “hands” for those who are truly concerned about their pagerank. All in all I guess I’m wondering -
- If your pagerank fell will you put a concerted effort into raising it?
- If your pagerank rose do you plan on exploiting it?
- If you don’t have a pagerank do you believe you need one to succeed?
- If you have a pagerank do you believe it is the appropriate one?
And since you’re all wondering yes even I have received a pagerank from almighty Google.
- Comment Luv
- Yeah, yeah I know everyone else probably knows about it already, but help me out here and pretend like it is something new to you, please?
- What is Comment Luv?
- Glad you asked! It’s a plugin that parses the latest RSS feed from a commenters blog and puts a link to it in the comment they leave on your site.
- Is it nofollow?
- I’ve seen it in action in three places and all of them have “nofollow” tags set in the Comment Luv link. Don’t know if that is by choice or force at this point.
- Why should I care?
- You should care because it gives your readers a reason to comment. You should care because it helps build community. There are lots of reasons you should care enough to consider this plugin.
- Ok, I’m convinced. Where do I get it?
- You can download it from right here. Not to mention you can also read up on it as well.
- Blog Rush phase 2
- I blogged about it last night so I won’t get into much detail here. I’ll just echo what was said over at Problogger about Blog Rush and that it is “underwhelming” to say the least. Perhaps it was a case of too big too fast, or something? Whatever the cause I personally think it is nearly safe to say the program has been a flop. From all the hype I guess I expected more. After all John Reese headed the thing up… Who is John Reese by the way and why does everyone care?
- Speaking of John Cow…
I don’t know how long it’ll be up so I’m going to steal his Halloween themed header/banner for all to see and simply say, “That’s bad ass!”
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