ZWAH REPORT

I ran into a snag while using a phpLD install into the root of my domains. It appears that the installation’s .htaccess file is missing a line (RewriteBase /). Here’s a complete snippit of the mod_rewrite section:

# URL rewrite rules
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
## Category redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php […]

Online shopping is great when you can wait a week for delivery, but what if you need something today from a local store? The big shopping portals can really let you down…
I was so frustrated I directly navigated to a Marchex site for my zip code and browsed the listing. This was a much better […]

Check out this verification image from the gather.com sign-on page…

I’ve started a new coRank site for sharing and voting on news and storied related to the REST architectural style. I love the quote: “The web is REST, REST is the web”. May turn out to be a more complicated version of My Bookmarks, but what the heck! Three people signed up already (ahem, including […]

coRank has just opened up their sub-domains to anybody who wants to start their own Digg-like community. One thing they didn’t do is put an RSS link in the header.html template file. No problem:

Grab the RSS link from your coRank site. It should look something like this: http://YOURSITE.corank.com/tech/all/upcoming/rss.xml
Open up the Header.html template file and insert […]

Maybe the next new technique to get noticed on the web. If, that is, people can understand what’s on the map in the first place.
Update: Google’s Universal Search will help users find local businesses using Google Maps.