Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes and Where we Stand

I was reading an entertaining article from Jacob Neilson on weblog usability. I take this opportunity for self-assessment.

To summarize the key usability blunders he points out are:
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Simple Thoughts Blog Selected in Top 100 Blogs by Feedster

I am happy to announce that The Simple Thoughts Blog is ranked 97 in Feedster's Top 500 List.

A big round of applause for my readers and fellow bloggers who helped us achieve this distinction.

Update: We have been selected again (ranked 33) in Feedster Top 500 Blogs. This time we significantly improved our rankings.

According to Feedster:

Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you on a regular basis, and to discover new voices in the Blogosphere.

I started this as a Java and Web Technology Blog in October 2003. Later on I included health topics with focus on diabetes cure related information.

Two of my special interests: stem cell research and eye treatment and care information were forked into their own blogs to do justice to the subjects and to make the blogs more focussed. Please take a look at The Stem Cell Blog and The Eye Treatment Blog and let me know your thoughts.

Soon I will fork The Diabetes Blog into a separate blog of its own.

I am looking forward to your ideas and sugestions to make these blogs even better and more useful to you.
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WordPress Plugin for Permanent Redirection of Posts - Angsuman’s Permanent Redirector Plugin

Angsuman's Permanent Redirector Plugin

Overview

This plugin allows you to redirect (permanent redirect using HTTP status 301) any of your posts or pages to a different URL.
This enables you to transfer Google rank of your post or page (static page of WordPress) to a new page. Also the new page is displayed in search (Yahoo, Google, MSN etc.) results.

This is valuable when you want to permanently move one or more of your posts or pages to a new location.

The post/page content is not altered.

No configuration is required. Even your GrandMother can use it.

Compatibility

Works on 1.5.x & 2.0 codebase.

Update

For some users the plugin wasn't directly redirecting but bringing up an intermediate page. Brian found a solution to this issue. The plugin has been updated with Brian's fix. If you are facing this problem then you are strongly encouraged to download the new version. Otherwise you may continue with your existing version.

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