A view from opposite Harrods –> http://markxdavies.blogspot.com/

Truly interesting. Bookmark. Subscribe. Read.

Via Crowded Voice

UPDATE: And he tweets too.

- If you are a registered user and have just logged in, you can comment directly on the frontpage or on the tag/category pages. No need to open the post to publish your own comment.

- I will be finessing the sidebar and the pages in the coming days. Patience, please. Contact me if you spot an horrific bug that prevents you from digesting your Thanksgiving turkey.

Addendum: WordPress‘s P2

UPDATE: P2 is out. It sucked too much of the server resources.

http://www.hsx.com/blog/view.php?id=113

They should go with user-friendly URLs (that include keywords in them). Like the URL of this present post:

http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/23/hollywood-stock-exchange-blog/

Another possibility (preferred by Matt Cutts):

http://www.midasoracle.org/hollywood-stock-exchange-blog/

For a pseudo-blogger like me intimidated by those seven letters “P u b l i s h”, I could use some prodding from ludicrous and arbitrary deadlines. Sixteen of them, in fact.

Enter World Blogging Month (WoBloMo), coming in March. The goal is simple: Blog every other day from March 1 to March 31 and you win.

I’m in. So far as I can tell so are two other people.

One of them, Mark Reid, summed up his reason for joining nicely: “By forcing regular posts I’m hoping to not indulge myself as much in my writing, find the main thing I want to say in each post and just say it.”

March is a good month to write since it happens to be a popular month to surf.

So join us and “just say it” on every odd day of March. See you on the other side.

Full disclosure.

Caveat Bettor [pseudonym] – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Event Derivative Trader – Blog: Caveat Bettor – North America

Bo Cowgill – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Quantitative Marketing Manager – Google – Blog: Bo Cowgill – California, U.S.A.

Nigel Eccles – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – CEO – HubDub – Blog: HubDub – Scotland, United Kingdom, E.U.

Michael Giberson – Mike Giberson – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Energy Economist (Center for Energy Commerce, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University) – Site: Michael Giberson – Blog: Knowledge Problem – Texas, U.S.A.

Robin Hanson – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Professor – Economics (George Mason University) – Blogs: Overcoming Bias – Virginia, U.S.A.

Chris Hibbert – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Software Architect (Zocalo) – Site: My Druthers – Blog: PanCrit – California, U.S.A.

Alex Kirtland – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Internet Usability Expert – Blog: Usable Markets – New York, U.S.A.

Mike Linksvayer – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Vice-President of Creative Commons – Blog: Mike Linksvayer – California, U.S.A.

David Pennock – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! – Yahoo! Research – Blog: Odd Head – New York, U.S.A.

Jason Ruspini – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Financial Research Analyst, Vice President at Conquest Capital Group – Blog: Risk Markets & Politics – New York, U.S.A.

Emile Servan-Schreiber – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – CEO – NewsFutures – Blog: NewsFutures – Maryland, U.S.A. & France, E.U.

Adam Siegel – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – CEO – Inkling Markets – Illinois, U.S.A.

Koleman Strumpf – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Professor – Economics (University of Kansas) – Kansas, U.S.A.

George Tziralis – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Doctoral Researcher – National Technical University of Athens – George Tziralis’s Home Page – Site: Ask Markets – Greece, E.U.

Eric Zitzewitz – Post Archive at Midas Oracle – (Post Feed) – Professor – Economics (Dartmouth College) – Site: Zitzewitz.net – California, U.S.A.

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Pssttt… Let me know if I should make a change in a label, or add a link, or else.

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David Theroux, one of the bloggers, is the founder and president of The Independent Institute.

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No one has been able to tell me what the purpose is behind WordPress sending pings and trackbacks to itself if you link to an article located in your archive.

It’s a great feature.

1. Google (and the other search engines) send web visitors to your old stories.
2. If you want those web visitors be become aware that new posts were published on the same topic, then you need self pings.
3. Go to that 2005 blog post, scroll down to the comments, and you’ll see a listing of fresher posts affiliated to that topic.
4. If Mike Linksvayer uses “self pings”, you should too.
5. (((Mike Linksvayer still hasn’t get around “tags”, which has a similar effect, but that’s because of a limitation of his “theme”, which is the part of the WordPress software that governs the visual layout of a blog.)))

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PS: One problem is that those self pings (along with other pingbacks and trackbacks) go into the comment feed, which some feed subscribers dislike.

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The basic SEO tips.

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They picked the worst possible blogging platform: Blogger. — Completely crappy. — And their blog layout is ugly. — Awful.

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Campaign For Liberty – Blog

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WordPress.org

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