Technorati's expanded their web services API with the addition of TagQuery, which lets you retrieve a list of posts which are tagged with a given word.

And of course, if you're looking for an easy way to assign tags to your posts, you can try the TechnoratiTags plugin George Hotelling made.

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So let's say you run a reasonably popular weblog that's open to comments from anyone and everyone. Let's also say in the same breath that you don't necessarily believe that turning off comments on older entries is a good way of squashing the comment spam problem, though it is terribly effective. For the sake of completeness, let's also say that you've bought into the idea that blacklists are inherently flawed, a losing proposition, and so you haven't bothered using them.

But let's also say that you have received a proportionately infinitesimal volume of spam despite it all, given how attractive a target your weblog must be.

What...

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Though we don't link to every review of our products, sometimes we like to pass along ones that are especially in-depth or insightful. The latest is EContent magazine's review of TypePad. The reviewer's summary:

TypePad is a terrific tool to set up a professional-quality blog in just an hour or so. Perfect for individuals or businesses, TypePad requires no Web design or HTML skills. With the WYSIWYG editor, creating a post is as easy as using Microsoft Word. TypePad is what Web-based services are supposed to be: easy-to-use, powerful, professional, cost-effective, and fun. Many services make the claims, TypePad actually delivers.

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After the success of the first event earlier this year, the Blog Business Summit is returning, this time in San Francisco. Scheduled for August 17-19, the event promises a full calendar of practical, business-centric conversation about the benefits of blogging.

If you're interested, you can register as an early bird, or submit a session proposal if you've got an idea that should be covered.

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Just a reminder, if you're interested in attending the upcoming BlogHer Conference in Santa Clara, CA, we're offering sponsorships for five women bloggers, as outlined in the post on Mena's Corner.

The deadline is today, so if you want to attend and are interested in having us cover your cost of registration, get in touch.

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Vauhini Vara of the Wall Street Journal has published a look at all the new blog search engines that have popped up in recent years, including Technorati, Feedster, IceRocket, DayPop, BlogPulse, Bloglines, and stalwarts such as Google, MSN, and Yahoo.

The challenge facing a lot of these search engines is outlined in the article:

The new services, some of which are less than a year old, aren't without their glitches. The technology is still evolving and companies are still looking for the best way to track and sort blogs. Some services miss large numbers of blogs, while others pull up irrelevant sites.

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MTGoogleSearchResult

A field of an individual Google search result. This tag is used in the context of a MTGoogleSearch tagset. The tag recognizes a single required attribute.

This tag is only recognized in search templates.

Attributes: • property - Specifies the field of the search result to be displayed. Values can be: "summary," "URL," "snippet," or "title." The default is "title."

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Movable Type version 2.1 is now available to download.

Primarly a maintenance release, 2.1 also includes these features: • The export mechanism now exports your Post Status, Allow Comments, and Convert Breaks values for each entry, and the import mechanism will import them. This means that when you use export-import to transfer data, this metadata will not get lost in the transfer. • Added the ability to rebuild one index template at a time. ( More information) • Big rebuilding speedup if you use the <$MTEntryCategory$> tag. • Added Google API hook for search and similar search in <MTGoogleSearch>. ( More information) • Now supports three metaWeblog methods: newPost,...

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I am currently working on a new version of MTLookup, offering lots of new features. In a previous article, I wrote that it will probably be released in August. That schedule is still valid.

One improvement will be an extended database. More websites will be indexed, more articles will be included. For this, I recently described how to get indexed by MTLookup.

There are two ways for making your articles be included in MTLookup.

Two choices

The component, which is resposible for collecting articles, is the MTLookupBot. It reads your website and saves the needed data in the database.

The work, which is done by the MTLookupBot, is very similar to many other well-known bots - such...

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Our Japanese Six Apart team has released Movable Type 3.2 Beta. Featuring all the improvements and new capabilities in Movable Type 3.2, this version is completely localized in Japanese and supports all of the plugin functionality and templating options of the U.S. version that was released a few weeks ago.

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Brad's been active with a cool little LiveJournal hack, inspired by the buzz around tags at this year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference, where he displays LiveJournal's interests in a new variable-sized tag-style display, instead of the years-old sorted list. Pretty.

Another cool little work-in-progress is the AJAX whiteboard Brad's put together. As Brad mentions, it only works in Mozilla-based browsers like Firefox, and it tends to die after a little while. But if you want to see why it's so cool, have someone else edit the drawing at the same time as you, and you can watch their updates in realtime.

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Installing Movable Type requires uploading many files to a web server using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program. The files must be loaded in the proper format and then the correct permissions must be set for each of the files in order for MT to work. If you are new to FTP then the Movable Type instructions (see MT Installation Manual: Uploading Files) can seem a little confusing.

FTP

Installing Movable Type requires that you know how to use an FTP program. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. There are many FTP programs available; typing "FTP" into Google will yield several. For my Mac, I use Fetch. Transmit and Cyberduck for the Mac have also had good reviews. Leech FTP has been recommended as a good Windows FTP client, as well as...

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Quite a high-threshold discussion happening on fellow Canadian Jeremy Shield's weblog.

Nothing really too new here, except for the observation that, with everyone's help of course, we've more or less made it impossible to argue that CSS design is inherently ugly.

…tableless design transforms the web into a library and less of a visual spectacle…

This is an interesting point, since, yeah actually - that's exactly what's happening. And it's good, remarkably good, for this to happen. Not only are table-less sites not boring, they're accessible. Keep in mind that all CSS Zen Garden examples validate to WAI AAA-level accessibility, although the individual designs can be more and less accessible depending on techniques used. Not only are they accessible, search engines love them. The Zen Garden is insanely high in Google thanks in part to well marked-up content. Not only are they search engine optimized, but they are, contrary to what you say, far less bandwidth hungry than tables. The average conversion of a site from tables to CSS-based chops the...

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Great news today for geo-enthusiast geeks: Two new APIs launched today in advance of O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference, one for Google Maps and one for Yahoo Maps.

The services are fairly similar, despite some good-natured ribbing from some of the folks involved, and the truly exciting part is that there's now two powerful, free, simple services for adding mapping/location data to your web sites or applications. Especially in combination with the recently-revamped GeoURL service, there's a lot of new toys for blog developers to build on.

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April 2002

04.19.2002

What's New.

We plan to release version 2.01 of Movable Type in the next week or two weeks. This version is primarily a maintenance release, containing fixes for some small bugs and issues in version 2.0. In addition to a variety of bug fixes, version 2.01 features: • Partial implementation of the metaWeblog XML-RPC API: the newPost, editPost, and getPost methods • Hooks to automatically insert Google search results into your pages, for both search queries and...

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About two years ago Andrew Anker emailed Ben and I and asked if we wanted to meet up for lunch. Although I knew the name, I had to do a search to see what I could find about him on Google. I stumbled onto the first result, a links.net page written by Justin Hall. The first line:

"Andrew acted like a big brother. Snide, know it all condescension, with deference thrown in for civility."

And a little farther below, Justin writes:

"From whispers and tales I gathered he'd lead a wild life, sometime in his past, but now he's family man, with kids, wife, saab, pastoral dwelling.

I mentioned to him,

"Hey Andrew, the dead are playing tonight. You going?"

"Yeah, I'm tripping already."

We also gathered from more...

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We've just released our collection of Power Tools, a broad range of open source components and modules that make it easy to get, manipuate, and manage web data. Many of these components are new, and can be combined together to build cool apps like the Friends Aggregation Page that Ben described at the Emerging Technology Conference.

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I've only been using ShortStat for a few weeks and I've come to really like it. It's a very simple but useful statistics package. I even came up with a few hacks for it, as well as instituting most of Nomadig's. But gee, it's been getting slow - I've so far received over 25,000 hits, and everytime I loaded ShortStat it took longer. I was searching on Google to see if anybody had made speed improvements.

Then, last night, I stumbled across SlimStat. SlimStat is based on ShortStat, but improves on it quite a bit by offering some useful viewing options, incorporating some new features and - perhaps most importantly - cleaning up the...

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Apple's just launched an iTunes Affiliate Program which promises 5% commissions on revenue generated by your links to songs, albums, or artists on their music service.

Combined with their existing tools for generating RSS feeds or just using their raw XML, this seems like a ripe area for building a plugin to make iTunes affiliate integration easier.

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John Paul Davis {} - Use Your Website To Sell - September 2, 2004 03:44 AMReading the SixApart Pro blog, I found out that Apple is doing a Google-like thing and starting a program whereby website owners who link to songs in the iTunes Music Store get a cut (a small cut) of whatever sales...

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There are several ways to suitably display code in MT entries. If you do not encode your code (replace html entities) it will become the very code you're attempting to display. (out of espresso beans this morning, brain is fuzzy, sorry for the convoluted verbiage)

Rather than doing the "textarea" thing (google for more info on that), I prefer to simply run the code through a web utility that replaces the html entities so my code will display properly. I then surround my newly encoded code with blockquote tags and I'm done.

There are numerous free encoding tools on the web. My favorite (because I could install it on my own site) is SimpleCode by Dan at SimpleBits. You might also check...

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