May 24th, 2013 -- by Bacchus
ErosBlog On Metafilter About Tumblr
I was noticing a quite a bit of extra traffic in my stats yesterday and when I tracked it to the source out of curiousity, it turns out that my recent Tumblr posts were featured in a very nice article on Metafilter:
The Digital Equivalent Of Stashing A Dirty Magazine Under Your Mattress
I don’t think ErosBlog has ever made Metafilter before, except in the comments. This time, the thread-winning comment for me is:
The robots.txt standard is not the problem; the problem is that your stuff is on a site where somebody else controls the robots.txt file.
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Shorter URL for sharing: http://www.erosblog.com/?p=9958
Shorter URL for sharing: http://www.erosblog.com/?p=9958
Kudos to ErosBlog!
Meanwhile my own great migration of cherished content continues. I’m even considering a reboot of hedonix.org for the purpose…
Good going! Now, if only there were a self-hosted blogging tool that made discover-and-reblogging as easy as Tumblr did, right?
That’s the hellish thing about the big adult-hostile corporate data silos. They’re big for a reason, which usually is something to do with the network effects of a critical mass of users attracted by a suite of pleasant features. Opting out always has a cost, unfortunately.
The absence of tools powerful enough to duplicate the (likely) soon-to-be-compromised functionality is regretted. I do see a small silver lining, in that in migrating stuff largely by hand I become more curatorial and spend more time putting tags and metadata on posts, all of which, I pledge by Great Cthulhu is visible to search engines.
It’s a labor of love, really.