I had been wondering how long it would take spammers to figure this one out. Here is what has been happening for the last week or two. Spammers have been looking for blogs that do not have any kind of spam protection or are weak and have let some spam links through. They then monitor those blogs for activity to see if they are being used/check often. If they find that the blog is uninhabited, they then start adding links pointing to those spammed posts in their new spam comments to be sent to unsuspecting bloggers. Thus by making the links to blogs in their spam comments look somewhat eligible (and in a foreign language) the spammers are raising the pagerank of those spammed posts in “compromised” blogs and effectively giving their own spam links the attention they need. I suggest that all bloggers become proactive about spam. Please keep […]
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MSN Feed Search: This news has been making its rounds along with calls for the “death” of Technorati and cheers for Icerocket. Make what you will of all of this. I think the MSN search is quite cool and IceRocket has always done a good job for me. (look for the “link tracker” from Icerocket soon)
[Continue Reading...]Feedburner Redesign After you are logged into the Feedburner interface, you see the changes that have been made. Feedburner does a very good job of collating feeds and information about feeds even if your blogging software provides its own feeds. Feedburner also has a very detailed set of suggestions for WordPress blog owners including a link to Steve Smith’s WordPress Feedburner Plugin. The distinct advantage of providing feeds through Feedburner in my opinion is that it provides accurate counts of the number of subscribers to your feed. Thanks Fiftyfourevelen.com PS: Is it just me or is the default Feedburner interface looking more and more like a metallic Technorati?
[Continue Reading...]Lussumo Filebrowser – Now with awesome thumbnailing power A highly optimized filebrowser in PHP that allows simple thumbnailing and viewing of photographs. The DEMO is quite refreshing and it validates XHTML 1.1 Transitional! Though I would suggest better use of HTML lists, this product looks to be truly amazing. Also from Lussomo is Vanilla which is a web forum that Matt mentioned in his recent podcast interview. Filebrowser is SCREAMING to be integerated into WordPress as a simple, in-post gallery creator that does not break validation. Imagine posts as albums and post categories as album categories. You can even add a random thumbnail from a post as a teaser in the excerpt.
[Continue Reading...]Opera 10-year online anniversary party – Opera Web Browser: Get your registration for the Opera web browser for free. Thanks The Javascript Weblog
[Continue Reading...]New Movable Type Disappoints But maybe I should just go with WordPress – that seems far easier to use.
[Continue Reading...]Ajax based Server Side Aggregator Thanks Magpie Blog PS: The server seems to be getting hammered, please be patient.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Gallery2 about to go Gold Still in RC2 is about to be released and works seamlessly with the newly released Gallery2. Via Email.
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