A couple months ago, in mid-May, I launched a redesigned version of my blog — which may have driven you wild with ecstasy, or which you might not even have noticed. More importantly, Google and Technorati and various other search engines, spider-crawlers, and Internet tracking mechanisms now know where to find my pithy comments about software, Web 2.0, project management, and various other aspects of technology. And they’ve also forgotten the URL where those blog postings used to reside; and that’s okay, because all of my old blog-postings have been moved to the new site, and anyone who innocently types the old URL into their browser will be automatically redirected to this new site.

However, a lot of bloggers still have links to the old site, and the old URLs.  For example, if you wrote a blog posting of your own, back at the end of April, that said “You should see what Yourdon has to say about about Microsoft’s $3 software bundle; you can find his article here …”,  you probably created a link using a URL that began with “http://www.yourdon.com/personal/blog/blahblahblah.html”. But that old April 25th article about Microsoft’s $3 software bundle has now been moved to my new blog-site, and the current URL is “http://www.yourdonreport.com/index.php/2007/04/25/microsofts-3-software-bundle/”.  And this confuses Google and Technorati and other such Internet mechanisms; while they may have known that the old URL was very popular, and had been accessed numerous times, they don’t know that the “popularity” is associated with a new URL.

I don’t expect you to have the patience or persistence to go through every one of your own blog articles to see all of the places where you linked to my old blog-site; but if you do think there were one or two of my blog postings that should be brought to everyone’s attention (a premise that may represent completely unjustified hubris on my part!), then I’d really appreciate it if you would (a) click on the current link to that blog-posting, to see where your Web browser takes you, and then (b) paste the new URL, located within my new blogsite, into the appropriate HTML code of your own blog article. That will help Google and Technorati be somewhat less confused than they are now; and it will reassure Technorati that there are actually more than just two or three people in the universe who bother to read the pearls of wisdom that I occasionally contribute to the greater good of mankind.

If all of this is confusing, please feel free to contact me via email, ed-at-yourdon-dot-com, for more details…

Thanks for your help!