Guest blogging is something which has met much criticism as of late, and in a new article at Devlounge I explain the woes and dismays of guest blogging. My stance is more “it’s what you make of it” rather than some blogger’s thoughts “IT’S THE DEVIL OMIGOD!!” Read the article, you’ll get it

1000th Commentator

I was out yesterday afternoon for a couple hours. I left with 990 comments and came back to 1001! I was trying to keep it a secret but this person is over their email quota. Anyways, it was Mutiny Design with this comment:

Likewise, I’m a bit lost

On dofollow blogs. I made a PHP script that find blogs that don’t have no follow if anyone would like it. Pretty simple, find pages that contain the word ‘comments’ but not ‘nofollow’.

Ryan just missed out with 999, but Mutiny Design had the 1001st comment as well. Replying to all these comments when I got home gave me 1002-1005 and that’s where I stand now Mutinty, if you leave a comment here with another email I can get you at, it would be better than waiting until September

Before I move on I want to thank anyone who’s ever commented in the past. You’ve made this blog what it is, and I don’t have to wake up to a page full of “0 Comments” which is always nice

Bloglines!

I’m sure you’ve heard, it’s all over the tech news sites, but for the record I think Read/WriteWeb had it first. As a Bloglines user, I was extremely excited to check out this new beta. After the initial “new rss reader smell” faded away, I didn’t like it that much. The one thing that bugs me the most is that the old/current Bloglines clearly distinguishes between read and unread. The new beta doesn’t catch your eye.

Another, and possibly nitpicky thing is the abolishment of the usage of the title tag. they used to have it update to tell you how many unread items you have. Now, it just has a fancy B (German character?)loglines.

So I won’t be using the beta until they force me to

You also know I can’t mention RSS without throwing in a blatant plug for my own RSS feed. Nathan Hillyer puts it quite well:

Hi Connor,

Been longtime, but it looks like you’re doing rather well for yourself. I haven’t read every post, but I have been keeping an eye on what you’re doing through RSS and i’d like to tell anyone that’s reading this, that he’s one of the most consistent posters in the blog atmosphere.

Good, easy posts to read and you can be sure that there will be something new to read every few days, if not everyday as it has been for a while.

Keep up the good work, and if this is the thousandth comment, delegate it to the next commentator

So you don’t have to believe me!