More bannings etc.

I haven't kept this blog up to date. Too busy working to "put food on my family", and doing the "save the world" stuff when I can. But in my peripheral vision, I've been aware that Blogmart is still the antithesis of what I thought I was signing on for when I started to become more politically active. But high profile individuals still frequently choose that blog as their soapbox for "netroots outreach".

Long story short, I will, to the extent that I can find the time, continue to post relevant links here.

Two Peace Activists Banned From Daily Kos by shergald
Memo to DKos: Time to End the Blogosphere's Stoning by liberalamerican
My Initial Response to Being Banned By Markos Moulitsas from Daily Kos by: Maryscott O'Connor
BREAKING: Markos Upholds Ban on MSOC by: Maryscott O'Connor
Through A Glass, Darkly by: Maryscott O'Connor

Psst...Markos is fired

New link

I just found this link via Francis Holland's main blog. It's called The Truth About Kos. A number of links gathered together in one place.

The robots are not your friends

Thank you, skippy, for posting a follow up here: wizard of kos 2: bad news for booman.

well, bad news for booman: it not only hurt your traffic, it didn't help your google ranking one iota.

we wrote to bill slawski, the author of the original piece we based our post on, and of the blog seo by the sea - internet marketing and search engine optimization research and services. mr. slawski wrote back:
...
because of this line in the robots.txt file - "disallow: /user" - google isn't allowed to visit those diary users' blogroll pages, and index them, and follow the links upon them. in terms of ranking value for these user blogrolls, there is none, because google isn't allowed to visit those pages.

Oh, and apropos of nothing, but I keep meaning to mention this. Those snooty "what can make your blog worthy of a link from the Great and Powerful Kos" guidelines that made me not even bother asking for a link...

Get away from the default templates. Get away from Blogspot.

http://www.dailykos.net/archives/001418.html

Heh. Guess it was okay to make an exception for atrios.blogspot.com

Fairleft, in the land of the banned

Story posted at both Booman Tribune and My Left Wing.