The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If you’ve ever spent a Sunday evening clearing out the contents of a website or blog anti-spam filter, you’ll identify with the decision of Dave Winer to turn off the comments on Scripting News. And having commented on Twitter and received some replies from Dave, I wanted to expand on the subject.

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The Way of the Web

MARCH 8, 2011

Blog comments have long been one way of creating community between bloggers, whether or not those comments are seo-friendly ‘do follow’ links or ‘no follow’ If someone posts a great comment on my site, I’d like them to get the small reward of a direct link to their site, if anyone wants to find out more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As someone who does public relations for companies, I’m sure you carefully pick your bloggers for the pitch. Bloggers have to weed out the crap and PR pros need to find the right people for the job. The job of someone who does blogger outreach can be difficult. We both have difficult jobs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet content: URLs. Tweet content: @replies : You also might choose not to follow people if they are a broadcast tool. Tweet Spinner also has a “nofollow&# user list that will algorithmically never follow users who meet certain criteria. Moreover, you can also nofollow people based on their tweets.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

The bottom line: If your content is good enough to stand on its own, it will be Retweeted. Sadly enough, the bury reason (which was public for all to see) was not at all about the writer of the post but was about the content itself. Using content from another blog without attribution. Isn’t your name actually Alan?

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