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If you use any type of blacklisting for comments in your blog, you need a list of words/phrases/ip addresses that are fresh and prolific in spam. Here is a list of 2000 spammer IPs and commonly used words and phrases out of CSPAM. These are the most prolific spammers’ IPs and the most used spam words. In order to add this to your Spamwords list in WordPress, simply open the URL, view source, select all, copy and paste into the spam words form in WordPress. This list can be used with ANY blogging tool that has blacklisting capabilities. Dynamic Comment Spam Blacklist I would also like to make some announcements about the CSPAM project. It will be released under the auspices of GPL. I envision CSPAM to work with all blogging tools that support xmlrpc (and a few people already share my vision of CSPAM). An SVN has been setup […]

The 5 min WordPress anti comment spam hack: A quick and dirty shell scripty way to rename wp-comments files on your server. Useful ONLY if you are on a Linux/UN*X system.

Nightly Automation: A shell script to keep your WordPress blog synced with nightly builds. A terrible idea for production blogs. But if you want to help out the dev team by weeding out bugs and feel the need for pain, this is the script for you. Via: BloggingPro

Free Project du Blog Reader: SBCs attempt to push blogs and promote their products. Interesting reader interface. Via: PaidContent

FeedSpeaker Blog FeedSpeaker translates text RSS Feeds into badly spoken MP3 files. Mike is actively seeking feedback from users. At least he is honest about the clarity and enunciation of the spoken text. Could this be a psuedo podcast tool for non podcasters?

WP Detective Plugin: A translated link to a WordPress plugin that allows you to track a user as they traverse through your blog. This could be interesting if the data does not grow too quickly.