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StumbleUpon Rampage October 24, 2007

Posted by Al Castle in : Puter Stuff, gnash-teeth, Web Design & Dev , 1 comment so far

As most of you know I’ve been a StumbleUpon user for awhile, normally I wouldn’t rate anything unless I really liked it or really hated it. (My own submissions are few and far between, but of quality I feel.) For the last few months I’ve simply had too much crap thrown my way, especially from the StumbleUpon/SEO/SERP/Social Media/Marketing/Web-2.0/Google-Juicing “Experts”. In fact there’s a lot out there thats just not fit to be viewed so I’ve changed my thumbing policy as follows:

These sites all automatically get a thumbs down and I won’t even check out the actual content no matter if it’s really “cool”.

  1. If your site is about any of those “Expert” items.
  2. Your website is hideous to look at.
  3. Contains pop ups of any kind (including dhtml)
  4. Takes too long to load.
  5. Is all flash.
  6. The start of the meaty content is not above the fold.
  7. Contains an abusive amount of ads (Including Google Ads).

Additionally I’m thumbing down all content that passes the above filter, but fails to tickle me. On some of the more lofty subjects, If I don’t feel like researching the topic further, I may simply wave a vote in either direction and continue Stumbling.

Likewise anything that delights me receives a thumbs up vote. I invite my fellow Stumblers to take similar action if you too are passive in the handing out of votes.

It’s Almost A Fork October 21, 2007

Posted by Al Castle in : gnash-teeth, TimeWaster , add a comment

A couple friends have complained in the past that my blog feed has incomplete URLs (missing the domain name) and aren’t valid feeds. So today I finally decided to try to figure out what went wrong. This code base has been hacked at so much by me, moved to different servers, extended, butchered, “improved”. It’s not really Wordpress anymore, sort of a bastard offspring - WordSquish™.

Hmmm. Yeah so I just did another ugly hack to fix it, without really determining the problem. Of course feed validator isn’t too pleased with the object tags in my CDATA. Sigh.

Perhaps next week it’s time to scrap this whole code base and start fresh.

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