The I Follow Movement

Posted by Dad on Mar 26, 2008 in Dad Bloggers, The Blog, The state of the Web | 1 comment

I recently found out about the I Follow Movement from Dad Balance.  The movement is about what made the Internet great. Its true power- a sharing of ideas and information. So, I’ve decided to implement it here.

I’ve added the Commentluv plugin that will show the last post you’ve made in your blog when you leave a comment on mine.  This is a great way for us to highlight each other’s writings and spread the good word throughout the Internet.

Of course, because the Internet is also full of people trying to take advantage of its openness (i.e., spammers), I’ve added Lucia’s Linky Love plugin.  This will allow me to remove the nofollow tag for people who are regular contributors to my comments (3+ comments) while maintaining the nofollow for those that the program deems are spammers.

If you have a blog, I encourage you to consider doing something similar.  It falls on all of us to try to make the Internet the wonderful sharing and open environment that it can be.

All the best

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1 Comment

  1. Derek | March 27, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    Thanks for the mention! The CommentLuv plugin is a nice way to give a little something back to the members of the community for their participation.

    Without this mindset of sharing, our experiences on the Interweb would be much more lonely and we would likely miss out on a great deal of information we may not otherwise find.

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