This article talks about why metadata is often metacrap. He makes a lot of good points about the weaknesses of depending on humans to classify information. Some of the problems he talks about could be somewhat fixed by standards, but we all know what a big bag of worms that opens up. In the short term, I don’t have too outrageous expectations for metadata… I’d just like to be able to Google something like “meta:review solar powered flashlight” and get actual reviews of a product rather than useless crap and ads about where I can buy said item. Right now Amazon or sites like Tom’s Hardware are my best bets for reviews. (Why the hell does InfoWorld never show up in search results?)
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Here’s a handy registry mod I had forgotten about. I ought to keep a running .reg files with all the mods I use so I don’t forget one when I reload a computer.
Some search engines penalize you for having duplicate content in a domain because they consider it spam or an attempt to up search ratings simple by stuffing keywords. I never thought about it before, but this can happen if example.com and www.example.com point to the same content. Well, this guy made a handy Wordpress plugin that helps you fix this problem. It appears it only works for Apache since it depands on you modding your .htaccess file.
