I think the people that promote anything also bear the responsibility of doing so ethically. One bad apple in a basket makes the basket look really terrible. I was TREMENDOUSLY DISSAPPOINTEDthis afternoon to receive comment spam on my blogs for getfirefox.com. If asked, I would have promoted the site free of charge (and as a matter of fact, have done so on many occassions including this one). The author was Nicolegrants Kidman (IP: 203.130.233.100 , quiksurfer1.telkom.net.id). If Asa or anyone else from the Firefox team reads this, I hope that they can take the necessary precautions to make sure that this does not happen. I strongly urge promoters to be really, really careful of their methods. Maybe I was a little jumpy with my conclusions. This very well could have come from “legitimate” (if there is such a thing) spammers trying to get their details approved and Firefox.com really has […]

I have finally put together all the information that I have received from the judges for the WordPress Plugin Competition and here are the results: Most Innovative Plugin Prize goes to Jack Born for Static Jack– $80 Most Outrageous Plugin Prize goes to Sam for Multiply– $80 Best Code in a plugin goes to Alex King for Popularity Contest– $80 Best Documentation for a plugin goes to Montie for LMB^Box Comment Quicktags– $80 A consolation prize goes to Nik for Kramer– Flickr Pro Account The Weblogs.us prize winners are: BOTD – $250 Andy Skelton Extract Terms – $250 Denis de Bernady Overall Winner of the Plugin Competition is Skippy for authoring Vhosts and Secure Login. He wins a brand spankin’ new Sony PSP from WeblogToolsCollection.com (or $270, whichever he chooses). Congratulations to all of the participants and especially the winners. Please contact me at mark at wltc dot net to […]