I was tired of seeing the majority of my posts’ comments feeds show up in Google’s Supplemental Index, so I changed all the individual posts’ comments RSS links to rel=”nofollow”. This should at least cause Googlebot to stop passing PageRank through those links, but what I really want is for Googlebot to stop spidering [...]

I’m trying to find a satisfactory way of adding WordPress tags and theme elements (such as the sidebar) to pages that exist outside of WordPress. A non-WordPress page could then appear to be seemlessly incorporated into the site, wherein the layout automatically updates with changes to the theme template files, and could use the [...]

Referrals are the new black
Google enters the referral business with kickbacks for both Firefox+Google Toolbar downloads and new Adsense users. Straight from the horse’s mouth, regarding Firefox:

When a user downloads and installs Firefox through your referral, we’ll credit your account with up to $1.00.

and Adsense:

When a publisher that signed up for AdSense through your referral [...]

Modestly appointed, but the price is right
Google has released a beta version of Google Talk, a text and voice instant messenger application. Still in its infancy, the program is very light on features, offering text and voice messaging and little else. Frankly, I hope it remains this way, rather than adding dozens of non-messaging features [...]

The future is disturbingly convenient
I’ve been using Google Maps for some time now, as a replacement to Yahoo! Maps and the godforsaken MapQuest for plotting out jaunts around Chicago. Completely functional, though still in beta, it’s just about the coolest cartography thing on the web, challenged only by this map of Switzerland. I’m watching to [...]