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» Blog Archive » La Shawn Barber’s blog peeves — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:21:37 +0000

[...] La Shawn Barber’s blog peeves La Shawn has posted her top ten list of Bloging pet peeves, it seem when ever a blogger get more than X number of hits per day they [...]

By: The Common Room

The Common Room — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:29:31 +0000

A Woman’s Work is Never Done

if you are a newish blogger or a blogger with Things To Learn ABout Blogging, you will want to look at her post here. Thanks to Lashawn I have figured out to give trackbacks, although I’m still in the remedial class on many other blogging skills.

By: This Blog Is Full Of Crap

This Blog Is Full Of Crap — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:25:14 +0000

Carnival of the Vanities #134 – Avignon Edition
From Wikipedia: An antipope is one whose claim to being Pope is the result of a disputed or contested election. These antipopes were usually in opposition to a specific person chosen by the papal electors (since the Middle Ages, the…

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:18:07 +0000

Thanks so much for your posting about Trackbacking. I am getting ready to move my blog from Blogger to Hosting Matters and had never heard of Trackbacking. (Something is wrong with my template and Blogger is less than helpful in correcting the problem, so I can’t utilize the full blogsite.) I understand and agree with the principle of Trackbacking, however, and will try to add MoveableType for use with my new site. I have just been adding a link from original source at the bottom of the article. You have a great blog. Thanks again for the useful information. -Jacqueline

By: Jeff H

Jeff H — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:24:59 +0000

“8. Bloggers whose posts are mainly complaints against other bloggers”: I trust you see the irony here…

I wrote the word MAINLY (”For the most part; chiefly.”) You really don’t see the distinction between one blogger pet peeve post and bloggers who complain about other bloggers post after post after post? It’s comments like yours that really make me want to shut them OFF permanently. WHY do I suffer you people? I really need to figure that out. – Admin.

By: Miss O'Hara

Miss O'Hara — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:11:01 +0000

No. 6 has to be the most annoying thing on earth…on *any* blog. Just as bad are the ones who respond in the most current post to something the blogger wrote in a different post days ago. It confuses readers, and it’s pretty distracting.

And thanks for the trackback tutorial!

By: yeah whatever

yeah whatever — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:27:58 +0000

Carnival of the Vanities #134 years in the making
Here’s Carnival of the Vanities #134. My sack of goodies is positively groaning (regular readers will know that’s often the case at Zen Manors).

Okay, I did think about a clever format. Really. And what I came up with was exactly the same post I d…

By: stephen matlock

stephen matlock — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:22:10 +0000

Trackback testing – I tried the “http://kalsey.com/tools/trackback/” tool, but I don’t know if anything happened. Am I supposed to see something?

Sorry for being so ignorant. Blame on fluoridated water.

Congrats on the trackback (above). You’re officially a nerd! – Admin

By: From the Mountain

From the Mountain — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:16:30 +0000

Can I do it?
La Shawn Barber gives tips on trackbacks

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:06:35 +0000

Wow you guys are easily annoyed. Personally I found rule number 8 pretty obnoxious. Sure you say ‘mainly’ but I think you would have given your “rules” more validity if you didn’t appear to be breaking one in the very process of writing them! It doesn’t help that you leave an opening at the end; “I’ll update this as more come to mind,” those don’t exactly sound like the words of someone who doesn’t have a lot of complaining planned. If it was me, I would have reconsidered including that one because it makes it easier to disregard the whole set.

And also rule 6. It’s common in any debate, from high school to CNN to newspaper pages, for people to just pick out the pieces of someone’s argument that they want to reply to. Then the first speaker can retort back; “but aha, I said this!” or; “but just before you mentioned that,” and the like. So it seems this is just the natural flow of argument that you are campaigning about? I don’t like your chances!

By: Dodo David

Dodo David — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:02:49 +0000

La Shawn:

I did it! Thanks to your instructions on how to backtrack, I successfully created a post on my blog that backtracked to your blog.

Once again, thank you, Blogmother.

Where is the trackback? – Admin

By: DeputyHeadmistress

DeputyHeadmistress — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:22:50 +0000

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you and thank-you for posting the track-back tool for those of us who don’t have trackbacking enabled (or are to dim to figure it out). Thanks!!

P.S. And did I say thanks?

By: The Jawa Report

The Jawa Report — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:32:51 +0000

Weekend Update, with Rusty Shackleford
Had a long weekend. Spent all day Saturday in Memphis. My first time in TN. It was one of those travel-in/travel-out on the same day deals. Can any one in Memphis tell me what the deal is with the pyramid?…

By: eulalie

eulalie — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:16:23 +0000

Hi.

I’m new to this blogging thing and I was wondering..
were you kidding about the things that irritate you
about what bloggers do?

By: DLE

DLE — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:21:55 +0000

I decided to implement trackback on my blog Cerulean Sanctum. I researched it for a while and implemented Haloscan’s trackback feature.

That said, trackback is one big kludge. In theory it should be an automatic function, but it is not. You have to manually plug in a bunch of URI’s (one for your blog, one for the blog you’re sending the trackback ping to), then you have to ping the site. Sometimes you get a reply that the trackback ping was received and sometimes you don’t. The implementation and functionality of trackback is laughable.

In other words, this is the kind of nuisance setup that Apple Computer does a great job making workable while the Linux and Windows world just puts up with the kludginess of it all. If Apple ever came up with blog software that was cross-platform and included an auto-trackback feature, I’d buy it in a second.