WordPress Planet: Very good idea Matt! All your WordPres news in one spot.

Kitten’s Project Blog >> Kitten’s Spaminator: A spam prevention plugin that combines all the ideas from Tar Pit and Three Strikes and puts them together quite nicely. Added touches include a non-global structure (class), does not use the $_POST for the tests, more refined database usage and pronounced return codes.

General Motors Blog: Unlike other corporate blogs, this one is different, cool almost! Via: Scoble

Kitten’s Project Blog >> Comment Spam Thoughts: What she said!!

I have been working with the centralized comment spam prevention idea for some time and I have a service ready to be tested. It is in the alpha stages of development but the focus is on a simplified interface, incredibly simple installation and ZERO maintenance. Now a lot of developers and blog gurus poo poo the centralized idea since any central system WILL be vulnerable. However, if centralization itself is distributed, that is, if a hundred people can provide spam protection for a hundred thousand, the vulnerability becomes less of a problem. In the present incarnation of this service, you install a WordPress (various other tools planned) plugin and enable it. Everything else is taken care of for you. The service learns from itself and the more spam you send its way, the better it gets. Lots of features are planned and some are already implemented. What I am looking […]

Blog Search Engine Adds MoBlog Search: Search Moblog images with Blog Search Engine. I do not know how effective this will be since most moblog images are sent and posted without words, but a cool idea nonetheless!

PHP Interactive – an interactive shell for PHP: A web based, interactive shell for PHP, like the Python interface shell.

UPDATE: Everything is now ready to go, the plugin works well with 1.2 and 1.3 installs of WP with one exception.  There has been some problem with WP 1.2.1 when running Kubrick 1.2.6.  I am looking into it now, but I thought it was not a deal breaker.  If you have any questions leave them for me here or on my site. Hey everyone, just checking in with a little plugin update.  I am releasing a new plugin on Friday the 29th of October called Per Post Comment Text. In a nutshell this plugin will allow you to specify the text that your link to your comments form holds.  Gone are the days of every link on every article being Comments (0), or What do you think? (0).  Now you will be able to have your post about motorcycles have this as your comment link: What kind of hog do […]