The Wardman Wire

Hints and Tips

There’s a nice little gaggle of UK Political Blogs developing on Blog Top Sites. Blog Top Sites is a categorised directory that also publishes rankings and their version of traffic figures to listed blogs every couple of hours.

It is also the only direct traffic comparison using the same service for a number of UK Political Blogs I have found (*), and can be motivational for some people. By my estimation, the figures are something like 60-70% below the numbers I get from my server statistics, but are fairly consistent and so can be used for a reasonable comparison.

This is a Monday afternoon tip, because I have just been asked the question.

If you want to include some HTML source code in your web page, so that someone can cut and paste it into their website, the problem is that it will be treated as part of your web page itself, and will not be displayed as you wish.

Here are two ways to do it.

On a comment over at Ellee Seymour’s blog, Tim Almond asked me:

“Consider the how the Internet is distorted by Google dominance. That’s where it *could* end up.”

How do Google distort the internet?

That is a huge question, and I have posted my comments over at Poliblog Perspective .

I’ve now done something like 700 blog posts using an offline Blog Editor called Blogdesk by Johannes Oppermann. An offline editor means that I can do the posts on my PC, rather than use the editing facilities in Wordpress. I am very pleased with the software.

Click on the image for a full screendump.

Technorati all over the place

Last week Unity over at Ministry of Truth wrote a piece comparing Iain Dale’s Top 500 blog list to one of the more common blogranking systems on the Internet - Technorati:

I’m very much a sceptic when it comes to the idea of ranking blogs in some sort of order of popularity,

I replied commenting that any system counting blog links was all over the place after the recent intense Usmanov related link copying - all of which will count in the system.

In my mail this morning, a phishing scam that I have not seen before.