Have no idea why some blog posts work and others don’t… so far. Grrr…

Seems to work now… for now…

Is that why LC tried to send me a cookie? No thanks. Don’t eat cookies unless absolutely essential, so what does the cookie do?

Oh come one, not even a choc chip one?
Though this one’s probably by google for the site stats. I don’t have cookies enabled for anything otherwise.

The first cookie says it is from the web site, not from google. Then there are a couple from newsimg.bbc.co.uk.

I am often curious about this cookie-phobia that people have.

Yes, it allows a limited amount of tracking to occur.

No, it can’t track across other websites, and no, it has no way of identifying you as a specific person.

So, all it does it say that visitor “344565423523626456″ has been to the site before and they came from Source X and visited pages Y.

That’s about it.

The main use is so that website owners can see how people are finding their website and how the average user uses the site. I use that sort of data on a range of sites to see what pages are being ignored by users, then try to understand why – and if necessary improve the navigation (or scrap the section) so that the website usability is improved.

Not sure if you are aware, but the RSS feed appears to have been broken by the upgrade. The top stories post looks like this in Google Reader.

ydue> The RSS feed will be set to publish summaries rather than full posts.
Sunny > If you want to change this back (and I hope you do) this can be changed on the “Reading Settings” page of the wp-admin area.

Sunny, please put the feeds back to full.

Yup, what she said.

ok, RSS feed now in full!

dreamingspire – don’t know about the BBC cookie, but the other one is probably used by WordPress though. I haven’t specifically set any cookies for anything.

Thank you, oh bountiful Editor in Chief!

No worries!

contact form isn’t working either – have to look at that.

So then Sunny, what’s the plan with MU?

An interestingly different approach to Lab Home.

*rubs hands*

I could tell you Mr Bond, but then I’d have to keeeel you…

but more seriously, I’ve never taken LH as a model. Call mine, the TPM approach.

The thing that’s always kept me away from WordPress MU – and I have thought about it – was the resource needed to recover if I get 150 people blogging on it and then it all collapses for some reason, and being responsible for everybody else’s IP.

I always felt it would need a bullet proof maintenance setup, which requires support people = money, or perhaps an alliance with another organisation.

Best of luck .

I’m afraid the overloads that support and promote this conspiracy stop me from saying more.

But it’s not that hard to maintain and set up, though it does take more effort than WP initially… though perhaps I’ve spoken to soon. We’ll find out….

>the TPM approach.

Or even the TPMCafe approach.

The two key bits of advice I got were:

1 – Get a generous server if it’s more than a small no. of blogs.
2 – Responsive support availability in case you have a Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster.

Will shut up now – here, anyway.

Indeed it is the tracking cookies that I don’t like. Today The Register has an article about them: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/google_tracking_study/