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Testing: This is WP’s new sticky post feature

Posted in Wordpress, tagged on September 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

WordPress announced a new “sticky post” feature this morning. I didn’t know this was in the pipeline but I love anything that adds flexibility to my blog presentation. I’ve seen it used on game forums and boards and it can be extremely useful for keeping a hot topic at the top of the page.
Note: Cool! [...]

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We interrupt this program for … a little blogrolling

Posted in Life, Personal, Wordpress, Writing on August 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I have received my first ever blog award (and you never forget your first time!). It’s from Java Queen! JQ runs one of my favorite personal blogs and I’m delighted she thought to include me among her recipients. I’ve always thought of this blog as sort of a mixed bag of indeterminate purpose (said to [...]

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Now you can go after ScienceGuide splog through Google

Posted in Law, Technology, Wordpress, tagged , , , on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

If any of your posts have been scraped by ScienceGuide.net, the splog that scraped me, there is now significant recourse (I think). The site now sports Google ads, which gives us victims the right to lodge complaints with Google. Instructions for doing so are on the Google site.
Look in your dashboard for sites that have linked to your [...]

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I got scraped by scienceguide.net

Posted in Law, Wordpress, Writing, tagged , on August 5, 2008 | 16 Comments »

Scienceguide.net is a splogger. They stole my recent MIT article — lock, stock and picture — and posted it at http://www.scienceguide.net/mit-solar-energy-storage-project-puts-big-oil-notice. It was a little post, just a note about something I thought was cool, but I guess I have an intensely possessive nature or something.
Sooo … knowing there was little I could do about [...]

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