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 […]

Two thumbs up is what I have to say! If you are looking to use mutliple machines to do your work and are looking for just a WONDERFUL way of performing just that, try Synergy. I am writing this post while going between two seperate computers, two seperate monitors and two seperate operating systems. In other words, I have a connected at the hip set of machines that I can use. Good job Synergy team!! One suggestion, follow the install and setup instructions closely to save yourself any possible headaches. The install is really quite simple and painless if you know the direction you are headed.

I am going to try something new this time. I would like to know what people think will be the next “killer app” in the blogging field. We are caught up with the little details and the intricate features of our tools (which are very important, BTW) and we tend to forget to look towards the future. What will change the face of blogging as we know it today? What will make every Google eyed blogger go… Ooooohhhhhh, I want THAT! I say it is going to be a Windows integerated blogging tool that has built in xml APIs to post to blogs, much like FTP is built into Internet Explorer (no reverence implied here). Complete integration into Windows would mean a Hotmail/MSN/Passport Blogging site and loads and loads of (more) blogs. Now, I dont know if this would be a killer app, but it would change blogs as we […]

Lots of little changes in trying to incorporate design suggestions for weblogtoolscollection. I am mostly happy with the results though the novelty might be more attractive than the actual design. Please feel free to point out glaring errors or annoyances. PS: Is it just me or is Ping-O-Matic responding MUCH faster now?

For those of you that have tried to download the various scripts etc and have gotten 404s in the past couple of days, they should mostly be fixed now. I moved my server over the weekend and the most recent set of downloads were not moved to the new server. That has been corrected. If you find anything else missing, please let me know.