links for 2008-02-17

"They're writing news stories, whisking them off to the web-bods who then place them neatly into a pre-designed CMS". Ah, the web-bods. The little people. Bless them. They don't know much, but they do know how to keep that 'web-bod' stuff away from us...

"See what I mean? Nobody quite does what we need. Used in concert and with a little work, these 6 tools together can build you a pretty good reading list of top blogs in any niche. There's big room for improvement in this toolset though".

"Is Google ignoring boilerplate when it indexes those pages and tries to understand what the pages are about? Does it disregard the words in your copyright notice? Do the words appearing as anchor text in links to blogs in your blogroll get ignored?"

"So you’ve been blogging for a while but you’re starting to hate it? You thought you could make easy money and order a brand new 24' iMac to replace your old Windows Me PC in less than a month or two?"