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Web evolution: make your posts shorter!

Do you remember the days where you'd carefully read through everything your RSS aggregator collected for you? Do you still do that? Do you even open your RSS aggregator? Do you even use one? Chances are you're using twitter by now. 140 characters max…...

June 14, 2009 · 2 min · François Planque

Anil Dash about blogging

I recently heard Anil Dash put it in this very simple way: "A blog is a way to connect with people you care about." And it has nothing to do with technology, feeds, etc. It's quite another approach compared to my own (alternative) definition of…...

August 5, 2006 · 1 min · François Planque

My (alternative) definition of blogging

How do people usually define blogging? They tend to say that it's about organizing posts by reverse chronological order. That it's about writing in the first person. That's it's about being more personal. That's it's a social thing. That it's about…...

December 10, 2005 · 2 min · François Planque

Fame! (The illusion of)

Every blogger gets to do that once in a lifetime (ahem, I mean "at least"): I searched for my firstname in search engines... Surprisingly or not (depending on how much you know about web indexing techniques), I am famous, very very famous! #1…...

March 24, 2004 · 1 min · François Planque

Google & BlogNoise: the blogger's responsiblity

We have talked about the annoying BlogNoise problem before. And most bloggers have agreed that Google would probably be smart enough to fix the problem shortly in order to provide a better service to their users. A great part of the BlogNoise is…...

May 17, 2003 · 3 min · François Planque

Google & BlogNoise: the blogger's responsiblity

We have talked about the annoying BlogNoise problem before. And most bloggers have agreed that Google would probably be smart enough to fix the problem shortly in order to provide a better service to their users. A great part of the BlogNoise is…...

May 17, 2003 · 3 min · François Planque

Google & BlogNoise: a semantic approach

As Russel points out (original article gone), the quality of searches is dwindling at Google as the result of BlogNoise. It seems to me that Google could easily cut out a lot of blogcrap of their search results if they performed their searches on a post…...

May 9, 2003 · 2 min · François Planque