Blogging the Meme

Last night’s Brisbane meeting was a roaring success. Our new venue at the Library was great, with the only downside being no internet connection. It seems Brisbane’s standard is the leading edge – an interstate visitor tells us we are far ahead of Melbourne in catering. Better pick up the slack, guys Tony Aslett’s late [...]

Brisbane WSG Meetings are consolidating into a smaller, but more dedicated group. Still a fair bit of variety of memebrs at each meeting, though. December 8th saw 14 of us ride the elevators up the ASX building and enjoy the view during the meeting. The view over the river is spectacular – that alone makes [...]

Now this is a novel twist on the ‘building a niche directory’ concept – someone has put up a standards compliant websites directory, no its not that the directory is standards compliant (it probably is, but I havent checked), its that it is only listing websites which are themselves standards compliant. Neat concept – I’m [...]

A new site called Article Alley seems pretty cool; they are accepting articles for publication. I like what I read there, a good collection. The categories so far seem to have an e-marketing theme; E-marketing, Domain Name, Web Design, SEO, etc – all stuff I am interested in, so I’ve been having a good old [...]

I was browsing past Design is Kinky tonight, and found that they had done another front-page changey thing, this time pointing off to something called Semi-Permanent05. <click> <click> and I am there, but I have no idea what ‘there’ is. There is some mention of ‘sydney’ but I suspect they have done a geo-check, noted [...]

Netcraft reports about a new bug in IE – it also works in Safari, unfortunately. I wonder how fast the boys and girls at Apple can issue a security patch?

I’ve been doing a little research on how search engines react to semantic structuring of web pages. I’m not particularly happy with the results so far. Not surprised, either, but I would have liked to have been pleasantly surprised, really. I decided, firstly, to check how the search engines placed weighting on the cite tag. [...]

Wednesday the 8th September saw another good turnout for the local meeting for the Web Standards Group – if you are in Brisbane and interested in standards, I can only encourage you to attend. Very educational. This month John Allsopp of Stylemaster fame flew up to speak. Man, what an empassioned speaker! We had the [...]

Search Engine Roundtable asks if other people are seeing top-line sponsored results in Google. I am. (Running Firefox under OSX, and have no reason to think I have a virus.) Here’s a screen dump:

The Web Standards Project reports that there is discussion that Google might use CSS as part of its ranking. This is just so much codswallop. Google does *not* use CSS to determine ranking, and this is easily verifiable by looking at the logs of any site that is crawled by Google regularly. googlebot never reads [...]