I noticed that my reputation points had gone up at Technorati, so I took a quick look to see why there was suddenly a little bit of a surge in sites linking to me. I laughed out loud. Evidently, you can’t use the word “impotence” anymore. My blog post “Bush Loyalists Admit Impotence” got picked up by a bunch of junk sites. You can imagine.
I’ve been trying to troubleshoot to find out what is making the blog take so long to load. In the process, I’ve been updating and optimizing the new design. Here’s what’s new: Imported the tag database from the Simple Tags Plug-in to the new native tags function of WordPress 2.3, deactivated the old plugin, and implemented the new Tag format in the template file. Installed the Technorati Tags and Related Posts for WordPress 2.3, and implemented them. Got rid of…
I’ve submitted an editorial on the Iraq Blackwater situation to the Op-Ed news network. Ousting Blackwater is a Win-Win I’ve granted them a 48-hour exclusive. You can also contact your federal representatives from that page. Any social bookmarking votes (digg, stumbleupon, etc) from the page would be appreciated. Vote for it at Technorati WTF
Today I’m a Slithering Reptile in the TTLB Ecosystem. The descriptions are cute, and very humbling! I was an “insignificant microbe” for a while when I first had the blog. I was a “Flappy Bird” for less than a day once – I think that’s the highest up I’ve gotten. In addition to the regular blog stats, The Truth Laid Bare now has graphs of incoming links and outgoing links (by frequency). Here’s my most frequent incoming links graph: (larger,…