This is the seventh entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Tim from ptvGuy Worthy of note is that this essay was written before my last post on comment spam floods and was submitted a few days ago but was lost in my spam-can. I just couldn’t pass up this opportunity to publicly acknowledge the incredible spam community out there for their unbelievably huge investment of time and thought and innovation in their efforts to spam my blog. I am absolutely in awe of the shear willpower of these people in the face of such widespread rejection. And, quite frankly, I just want them […]
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This recent trend of almost DOS like spam floods is really starting to tick me off. Akismet seems to be doing its job but the BOT just keeps asking for wp-comments.php even though it is not allowed to post a comment. The IPs, as usual, are very different in each query and the attacks have all the signs of a new bot farm with a new script that just does not want to take no for an answer. Now before I write something myself, is there a plugin out there that gleams off IPs from commenters that are getting refused (for posting too often, or as spam from akismet) and then appends them to your htaccess? I know something existed for Akismet and htaccess but I also rememeber it being very touchy. I might whip something up this weekend. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
[Continue Reading...]Since there have been only six entries in the Blogging Essay Competition and I have received numerous requests to extend the competition due to the holidays (my MBA professors are being extremely kind as well), the Essay Competition deadline will be extended. Last date for sending in an entry to the competition is the 14th of January, 2007. If you are sending in an entry and it needs to be formatted with bullets and paragraphs, please do me a favor and copy and paste the HTML into a text file and attach it to your email. In addition, if anyone is willing to sponsor the competition or add some money/gifts the <sarcasm> already huge pile of prizes </sarcasm>, it would be much appreciated. Just send me an email if interested. For those interested in metrics, approximately 10,000 people have viewed the various entries in the competition and about 120 votes […]
[Continue Reading...]This is the sixth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki from Deacon’s Blog Discernment in the Blogdom of God* Or, can blogging make me a saint? By Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki The world of faith blogs is fascinating in its depth; and in what it, as a tool, can allow you to accomplish. Faith blogging has unlocked the world of faith to seekers and researchers in levels unprecedented since the great efforts at Christian evangelization that occurred between the 15th and 18th century. There are several aspects to this depth. The Personal and Public Nature of Faith Blogging As […]
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin: Custom Admin Menu This plugin will let you customize just about everything having to do with the organization of your WordPress administration. You can relabel and rearrange menu items. You can create sub-sub-sub-menus, or nest menus as deeply as you want! You can change the parent of a submenu item, or move a submenu item to the top-level menu. You can move something from the top-level menu to a submenu. You can hide any menu or submenu item. There is also a screencast for those interested in seeing its functionality. Nicely done and a very cool plugin with a multitude of possibilities and one of those few pieces of code that made me say to myself, “I wonder what this looks like inside?”. The power of this plugin is not only in using it for your own WordPress blog to bring most often used items to the top, […]
[Continue Reading...]This is the fifth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Edrei Zahari from Kamigoroshi.net It’s easy to say that blogging is one of the easiest thing to start. All you need is a blogging application, access to the net and a thought that crosses your mind. There is no doubt that there are a lot of articles out there that would give you the breakdown of every known blogging application to comment spam filters to the hints and tips of applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or ads for the purpose of attracting visitors and making money on the sidelines. With everything that’s out […]
[Continue Reading...]This is the fourth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Mark Styles from Lambic They’re everywhere, and they’re annoying. They’re called CAPTCHAs and they’ve become a ubiquitious part of blog commenting. Bloggers use them as a quick and dirty solution to an annoying problem without consideration for the annoyance they will cause the reader. I want to persuade all bloggers who are using them to please stop. What are they? CAPTCHA stands for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”. I know it should really be CAPTTTTCHA but hey, I didn’t come up with the acronym. Before bigots destroyed […]
[Continue Reading...]This is the third entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by David from Optoblog.com I am an optometric physician. I began blogging when my friend, Josh Bancroft of tinyscreenfuls.com, introduced me to it in October of 2004. I soon caught the vision of RSS and blogs, and finally started my own at optoblog.com. I had intended it to be the start of something: optometrists blogging about all things eye doctor and also giving feedback to the ophthalmic product industry. Unfortunately, no one else bothered to join the conversation (at least publicly, but more about that later). Why are there not more optometrists, or for […]
[Continue Reading...]There are approximately ten days left in the Blogging Essay Competition and there have been two entries so far. A lot of people have been very helpful in reviewing these essays and many people have posted helpful comments and suggestions for the authors. However, we are still far shy of the ten entries required to judge the competition. A couple of authors have expressed their concern for irking the wrath of readers or making mistakes in their commentary that they will later regret. I am sure that I am not the first to say that every blogger has made a mistake at one time or the other and paid dearly for it. I admit that I have made many of them but I have not let them stop me. The power is in accepting your mistake, correcting yourself and making change to ensure it does not happen again. I believe […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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