Useless technology helps useless person
So I was testing a couple of Web 2.0 type plugins for WordPress and one of them was a plugin that auto-generated technorati tags based on the content of the entry. It'd only do it once you've saved the entry and didn't do it retroactively so I'd have to go through every entry and re-save it to get the tags. I left it on, forgot about it, disabled it over some theme installations and didn't bother to turn it back on. Well I just went through my stats for the site and apparently my April 1st entry about Slashdot's "makeover" was one of the entries that got tagged and someone searching technorati found my screenshots because of those auto-generated tags. So I turned them back on. It has nothing to do with vanity, I don't even really want a lot of traffic from people I don't know, but in that case I was being inadvertantly helpful and that's what I like doing. If someone wants to read my half-educated opinions, who am I to stop them?