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dinsdag 13 april 2004
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Jon created a very useful bookmarklet for viewing Technorati's info about any URL. You should try it.
11:04:54 PM CET  - -
I noticed something strange today. Dave pointed at a blog post by Mark Pilgrim
from Scripting News. He did that, using a redirect page which basicly
only gives the URL and tells the reader to copy and paste it nto the
adress bar. It wasn't a direct link. Why? Well, it was (and still is)
the only way to get Scripting readers to visit Mark Pilgrim's site.
Direct links won't work.
Pilgrim's blog has a referer-based block on Scripting News readers:
whenever Dave links to him, readers get sent back to Scripting.com. It
seems like Pilgrim doesn't want readers of Scripting News to visit his
site.
I'm wondering what's behind this. Why doesn't Pilgrim let Dave link to
his blog? What's wrong with that? And why doesn't he just send a
message to Dave, explaining his reasons and asking "please don't"? This
behaviour looks a little childish to me..
Anyway, I've helped Dave by creating a redirect page
that uses javascript. The referer won't be scripting.com, and users
won't have to copy-paste the URL into the adress bar. But it can be
expected that it will only be a matter of time untill Pilgrim starts
blocking that referer too..
10:31:59 PM CET  - -
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