Manoel Netto, from Tecnocracia blog, wrote an interesting article and a related WordPress plugin aiming to give Wikipedia a “payback” due to the fact that all of its external links now have a rel=”nofollow” attribute automatically.
Te rel=nofollow thing was created in 2005, I think, in order to fight comment spam. If a link has the nofollow attribute, then the search engine crawlers know that you, the site author, does not endorse that external link, what implies the spam sites will not benefit from the PageRank or “good neighborhood” viewpoint.
The so called ‘Blogosphere’ has been inundated by a new hype: the problogger invasion. Everyone wants to be a problogger nowadays. Lots of people want to pay their bills by blogging. They want to live in permanent vacations. They want the glory and the women (or not).
But, what is the actual impact of problogging on the credibility of the ‘Blogosphere’? What is going to happen with that idea of an independent kind of media, that does not owe anything to a sponsor, and for this reason would rather write what people actually think instead of what the sponsor wants?
A few weeks ago in my original (Brazilian Portuguese) blog I wrote a post about migrating from Slackware to Ubuntu. Of course I could see every kind of reaction, since those who understood that I was making fun with the differences, until those zealots that — don’t aske me how — misinterpreted my text, as if I was trying to take users from Slackware to Ubuntu.
In fact, I really enjoy Ubuntu Linux, and I am going to point out the major reasons for it.
My parents were not used to take photographs from us, neither was easy to find pictures from anyone at our home. So I grew up, with no habit of taking pictures, but with a kind of “lack†that lead me to be addicted to photographic cameras.
This article is a follow up to my previous article “ADSL users from BrT prevented from accessing YouTube” — published here and here — where I told that BrasilTelecom was blocking YouTube in order to avoid video traffic through their international links.
I was sixteen when I decided to turn my own power switch off. Yes, I’m talking about killing myself. I was not able to handle all the pressure a teenager has to deal with, and despite the huge amount of information I’ve been intoxicated with for a long while, sadness and lack of hope were constant.
Okay, now that I got your attention, I must say that I am not, actually, a problogger, because I don’t make a living just from my blogs. But I’m on my way, and at least half of my money I earn by blogging.
As you readers may know, I run a small web hosting business, and part of the work I have to do is to install and configure additional features to the system.
One day, my fellow Fábio asked me for a lighter webmail client, because his customers (Fábio is a reseller of mine) are not skilled enough to make use of bloated softwares. And, of course, there is the matter of the Language: our average customers do not read anything but in Portuguese.
BrasilTelecom is the most popular (and hated) phone company in South Brazil, with a very large market share, thanks to the fact it was a state-owned company that was sold for a dime (that’s another story).
Since it was announced that Brazilian authorities were tending to ask for the backbones controllers to block access to a specific YouTube video (more details here: Where no China has gone before: Brazil bans YouTube), BrT customers are totally unable to access any YouTube contents.
I respect everyone’s freedom. I mean, Freedom, with a capital F.
But sometimes I have to thank God that I was born in Brazil, and I’m not a muslim. I wouldn’t mind being a bomber-man, thus killing myself in my early years, if it was the only exit from such brainwashing.
A few weeks ago in my original (Brazilian Portuguese) blog I wrote a post about 