I thought that it would be useful to post my own experiences with the Three Strikes Plugin that I recently released. Here are some preliminary numbers while the filter is learning: Total Spam Comments in the past 5 days – 157 Total Spam Comments that got moderated by WordPress – 7 Total Spam Comments that I never saw anywhere (except my statistics logs) – 150 Total Spam Comments that showed up on the blog – 0 Since the code used by the plugin is not just my own work, I would not be tooting my own horn when I say that I am quite impressed by its performance. I am thinking of further refining the process by adding fuzzy signatures to each of the spam words and making the process of addition of spam words more seamless. For those of you that are not seeing the same kinds of results […]

Reblogging is the action of (re)posting information that is found on the internet (or other blogs). Almost all blogging tools can be used to maintain a reblog and there are many RSS readers and client side applications that facilitate reblogs. e.g. FeedDemon, an incredible RSS reader in its own right, allows its users to post news items from the client directly into an existing blog. Posting from FeedDemon is addictive and very easy, I know because I used to do it all the time. There are other tools such as Reblog which allows the same thing, but from a web based client. (FYI: the author of Reblog is looking for a WordPress hacker to develop a Reblog Plugin for WP). There are various other methods of reblogging content such as the “Press It” bookmarklet available inside WordPress and the “Blog This” FireFox plugin from Phil Ringnalda for Blogger blogs. What […]