Inspirational Technology

Weblog Link Series

Shelley Powers has published an excellent series of articles about linking in Weblogs.

• Part 1 -- The Impermanence of Permalinks
• Part 2 -- Re-weaving the Broken Web
• Part 3 -- Architectural Changes for Friendly Permalinking
• Part 4 -- Sweeping out the webs

Since I'm thinking about making a move with this site, Part 2 was particularly interesting. In my case though, I fortunately have the luxury of just leaving everything in place. The only thing that bugs me a little about that is that I'll need to keep a working MovableType system running to handle comments and such. I'd prefer to just be able to shut it down.