The good news is that Blogotariat has been entirely stable since moving hosts and unique visitor numbers have been doubling for the last three months. This means that post rankings are developing a proper life of their own without my input.

I do spend time everyday doing minor cleanups of html - mostly to fix broken or bad layout, and a lot of that is from the many non-standard ways that people use when formatting their blog posts. From an aggregation perspective all the superfluous code created by wysiwyg blog editors needs to be removed as far as possible.

I've added an industrial-strength html filter and will play with its fine-tuning over the next few days. I'm hoping to be able to strip out div tags, force strict tag matching to avoid the occasional spill of italic or bold into the page layout, provide a better way of resizing images, and maybe even resizing embedded video! That's the plan, at least.

So if you see even more than usual strange formatting, you'll know why.