There’s nothing worse for a common end user then getting caught in a fight between two elite web titans.
This RelationShaping.com blog is only a few days old and I’ve already discovered my WordPress.com hosted blog, Urban Semiotic, is unable — or unwilling? — to accept Trackbacks from this pair Networks hosted Movable Type 4.1 blog.
Continue reading → Movable Type Trackbacks Blocked by WordPress?
This is my second day on TypePad — I’m here to check out how for-pay TypePad compares with free WordPress.com and free Blogger blog hosting.
TypePad feels more like Blogger than WordPress.
The backend administrative interface for TypePad is feminine and designed to appeal to 13-year-old girls. WordPress’ backend is masculine and meaty. Blogger’s backend is industrial and unfriendly.
I do not like how TypePad and Blogger handle images. I have my own server. I want to store my images offsite and I don’t want to dig into HTML to code my image insertions.
(UPDATE: UrbanSemiotic.com is no longer hosted on WordPress.com. We now run on Movable Type 4.1. We are keeping this article in publication to preserve the record.)
Over the past few days I have noticed something curious happening with this Urban Semiotic Blog and Google.
For some strange reason a lot of our articles are no longer being returned in a basic Google web search and that is killing our readership because Google usually sends a lot of traffic our way.
Those articles used to appear in Google — they still appear in Yahoo! and Microsoft Live Search as the top returns — but they have been removed from Google view. We’ll see if this article you’re reading right now ever appears in Google and remains there or if, it too, eventually mysteriously disappears from Google’s search returns.
Continue reading → Urban Semiotic Articles Deleted From Google?
(UPDATE: UrbanSemiotic.com is now hosted on Movable Type 4.1. We are keeping this article in publication to keep the record preserved.)
I love WordPress.com and I moved my standalone blog from being self-hosted to the .COM version because I didn’t want to deal with any of the backend technical stuff.
That doesn’t mean problems and bugs aren’t an issue, though, and there is a current bug that I call a WordPress.com SuperBug — a regular “bug” is bothersome, a “SuperBug” modifies published content — and here’s why.
There is a known problem on WordPress.com where Published posts can mysteriously become Private posts.
Continue reading → Making Published Posts Private: The WordPress Dot Com SuperBug
We used to run the CUTLINE theme here on your favorite Urban Semiotic and I wanted to bring back our famous Rotating Image Headers that change with every fresh re-load of a page if you happen to be using that theme.
Continue reading → Rotating Image Header Tutorial for WordPress.com
In the comments for my Seven Days on WordPress.com article, I said the following in a comment when asked about using my BlackBerry during 18 hour workdays:
Continue reading → The Technological Tether and the 18 Hour Workday Noose
Here is my list of currently activated Plugins in WordPress 2.0.2.
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