Scenario: Search for coke zero weaknesses (someone did), and this site comes up as the first result (as of this writing). However, because it’s the main page of this site that Google is returning, the word “weakness” is in a post that has nothing to do with the Coke Zero post.
This is the downfall of the blog front page, in general, IMHO.
Should we tell Google not to index the home pages of our blogs, in order to enforce a separation of content, for clarity of search results?
I’m sitting on my porch and the rain just started to bucket down. It’s very welcome, since the humidity has been at about 100% all weekend.
Mike and I have just won a fairly ambitous new project… It’s both exciting and scary, but I’m totally confident that we can get it done, and with some help, build a truly best-of-breed site. I won’t tell you what it is for now, but it’s going to be very, very cool. And it will look great. 
I do have something I want to put out there though — I wish my ask.mefi week-long limit was up, but I’ll post it later and link to it, since no one will read it here.. this post can just remind me to ask the question later in the week.
So — I’m going to be stretching MT‘s capabilities as much as I can for this new project. I’d like to know which plugins you have found helpful in the past. I know the pagination plugin is going to be helpful to me, and dirify plus is likely to come in handy, but I want more. I need to break boundaries and expand the abilities of the editors. I have lots of ideas, but I don’t want to miss anything, so pass them along.
BTW: Don’t try to sell me on WordPress — I obviously already know about it (and love it), but MT has features that are deal-breakers for this project.
Thanks in advance.
In a banner ad for Lexus Passionate Performances, I came across this red and orange curtain graphic.
It’s interesting to note that my first thought was, “Is it sponsored by MasterCard?”
The MIT Media Lab is conducting a “general social survey of weblog authors.” I just took it, and they’re interested in how long you’ve been blogging, the relationship of your blog to your personal and professional lives, and the influence of the internet on your offline relationships (the creation thereof).
It look less than the estimated 15 minutes, and the results will be freely available. So, go take it. The more people surveyed, the broader and more accurate the reults.
My regular expression skills are lacking. In a big way. Which doesn’t hold me back at all, but every once in a while I have an arduous task that would be much easier if I could just automate it.
So, a friend turned me on to the Regex Coach. Anybody have any experience with this? Anybody have any regex tricks to pass on?