July 2, 2006 at 10:19AM Bloglines Freedback: Permalinks
Earlier this week, Bloglines announced in their news weblog that if you included the words freedbacking (what an utterly awful word, even if the concept behind it is sound) and bloglines in a post, they’d automatically pick it up and read any suggestions it contained.
Well, I’ve got one. It’s a simple one, and the fact that I haven’t actually linked to the post in question should give you a big, big hint.
Permalinks.
Proper permalinks.
It’s rather simple really. Bloglines doesn’t give real permalinks to the items in its news weblog, only anchors. Because of that, any link I give is broken within a couple of months as they fall into the void that is the next page. Without a real permalink, there’s really no point in me linking to it.
Now, this wouldn’t be such a big deal if we were talking about the news page of, say, a daycare centre or something. Aggregation is Bloglines’ business, and by providing a feed with next-to-useless permalinks, they make themselve look a little incompetent. It would take no more than ten, no, five minutes to do this right.