Comments on: Please God, no more pop-up links

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What is Yahoo!’s Role in the Blogosphere? : The Blog Herald — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:01:26 +0000

[...] plugins. Will this plugin become another success? Responses seem to mixed and vary from “Please God, no more pop-up links” to “Very [...]

By: mathewi

mathewi — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:42:01 +0000

That's a good question, Daniel. I hadn't even thought of that.

I guess I don't mind them (on my own or anyone else's blog) because
they don't appear on every link, and they're very tiny. Plus I kind
of think of them as informational, in the sense that they tell people
what others clicked on. But perhaps that's not a good enough excuse.

I actually enabled that feature more for my own purposes than to show
others. Maybe to be consistent I should remove it.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:25:10 +0000

Mathew,

I also find the popups extremely annoying. I was wondering, however, why then do you have the MyBlogLog popups on the outgoing links?

By: mathewi

mathewi — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:47:02 +0000

I kind of like the ability to find Creative Commons images and other
content — to embed in the post, that is. Put it in as a text-link
popup and your blog is dead to me :-)

By: Paul Kedrosky

Paul Kedrosky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:42:09 +0000

I'm tempted to add it just out of spite :-)

More seriously, this kind of thing can be highly useful if done tastefully and with fine-grained control over which things get tagged –but I don't get that sense yet on this one.