New Blogging Tool : Elite Journal – Written in RUBY

Someone from somewhere posted a REAL and valuable comment with a bunch of spam words, ended up getting automatically blacklisted and my CSPAM plugin ended up blacklisting the WHOLE organization. CSPAM’s false positive was a biggie! I apologize for the inconvenience and this episode has made me even more aware of the weaknesses of a completely automatic spam prevention system. But we shall press on.

Photomatt: Spambot Stopper: A very conservative SpamBot prevention plugin that checks a hidden field in comments. A good solution for a while before the spammers figure out the secret field name.

InsideGoogle: Blogger Launches Multiple Languages

WordPress Design Sandbox | ElasticDog: A static version of the default WordPress template. Useful if you do not want to mess with your live site while tweaking or working on your template.

Anatomy of a WordPress Theme: Ryan explains the internals of a WordPress v1.3 “theme”. Good reading for all your tweakers out there. Via: Wordlog

Posting video to WordPress: A cool addition would be a mobile video blogging tool. I might try and borrow Jennifer’s phone and whip something up. Via: BloggingPro

If you have been using the CSPAM plugin in the Alpha stages and are happy with the performance and the protection, please feel free to tell other people about it and send them my way (have them email me). There is a major overhaul of this plugin in the works which will increase throughput and performance. The problem at this moment is the sheer amount of information that I am collecting about spam and spammers. A lot of it seems redundant but if someone is interested in access to this information, please let me know.