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Category Archives: linkage

Gravatars, OpenID

Prompted by Automattic’s absorption of Gravatar, and consequently Matt’s implementation of Gravatars on his blog, I’ve incorporated the code to display gravatars on this blog here. You will find the relevant code to do similarly (if you’re running WordPress) here. … more…

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Tom Phillips: Autumn, Arrested

The Autumn Arrested, Tom Phillips, 2006 This is from Tom Phillips’ blog, and published (unaccountably) in April. Only discovered that TP was blogging just now via a Related Post at feuilleton — which just goes to show… something.

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an odd landmark

It’s no big deal, of course, in the great scheme of things, nor for that matter in very many schemes at all — but my first and only comment (until now) on the deaths of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake … more…

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LiveJournal feed, previously unsuspected

Enthusiasm enjoyed a rash of visitors from LiveJournal last evening, coming over to see the Outblissed post below. I’ve scratched about, and I cannot find the link that’s bringing them here, which is kind of curious, but it’s nice to … more…

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permalinks

Call me reckless. I just changed the permalink format for posts on this here blog. Where previously the links would read, rather unedifyingly: http://www.nexistepas.com/enthuse/?p=[ID Number] they now read: http://www.nexistepas.com/enthuse/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/[post-title]/ Apologies to whoever’s bookmarked posts in here. I believe the old … more…

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comradely greetings

to anyone arriving here via The Cruikshanks Center for Philanthropy & Civic Comity. The Center’s representatives noticed that some of the links at the tail of the “Persons of Interest” list (heeee! I’m a person of interest!) were all, like, … more…

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Iconistan

So, new buzzword. Iconistan is a cute coinage, attributed by Wired News to Tony Conrad of Sphere in this post, who attributes the coinage in turn to Kourosh Karimkhany of Conde Naste — which shows how carefully Wired News read … more…

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The Blogging Ecosystem (revisited); the ‘todo’ category…

Here’s another site I’ve not visited in a very long time. I’m amazed to see that, despite the years of neglect (both of them), enthusiasm is still on the scale at The Truth Laid Bear’s Blogging Ecosystem, appropriately enough, under … more…

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more linkage: OnePotMeal

I’ve added a few names to the blogroll – afaik all blogs that carry a permanent link to enthusiasm are now included. If you carry a permanent link here and you’re not in the roll, it probably means that I’m … more…

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Cluster Analysis

Okay then: theorise, if you will, a downloadable script that crawls your blogroll, and the blogrolls of those blogs, and cross-refers the lists to produce: Affinity groups of blogs with fully interconnecting mutual linkage Recommendations for the home blog (blogs … more…

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