Articles and experiments related to publishing.
I measured the external link ratios of 95 websites across a decade of web archive data (2014 vs 2024). The finding: news publishers have dramatically reduced the number of links they make to other sites, and a growing number of pages have become invisible to crawlers entirely. The open web's link graph is thinning, and I think I know why.
My first post using the new Blogger Word Blogging tool! It's easy to use and publishes really fast. I'm curious about HTML control since my AJAX tool outputs HTML. A few quirks: smiley icons show as "(", apostrophes look odd, and images/tables aren't supported. Planning a follow-up post with my feature requests.
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