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[AI3:::Adaptive Information] WordPress v. 2.2 Upgrade Exposes Cracks in the Foundation » AI3 ...: I’m guessing if things were *too* good or *too* easy to maintain, Wordpress.com and their professional services might suffer a bit. Then again, when I look at the web in general I really wonder why we do things the way we do when technology (and logic) offers such better alternatives but I guess it’s more useful and realistic to try and improve what we have than to start a revolution.

[How To Blog] How To Blog: Trackback spam a nightmare for TypePad users, while ...: And yes, any WP user really should be using SpamKarma2 &/or Bad Behavior. THe only caveat is that SK2 turns off your WP default comment moderation features so you can't force comments into moderation (unless you use Peter Westwood's SK2 hack which is terrific).

[Cory Miller | Web Marketing for Small Businesses] The First 5 Essential Tweaks I Do in a WordPress Blog Installation ...: [...] For all you aspiring bloggers out there, Cory Miller tells us The First 5 Essential Tweaks He Does in a WordPress Blog Installation. [...]

[Lorelle on WordPress] What WordPress Plugins and Features Do You Want on the Comments ...: While all this work has gone into stabilizing WordPress’s core, security improvements, improving the Write Post panel for multimedia and ease of use…nothing has been happening on the comment front. For the user, not the tweaker, we want to see improvements on the surface we enjoy the most is the comments.

[ProBlogger Blog Tips] Comment Spam - Is Akismet OK?: Just the comments that Akismet didn’t catch was reaching a level equal to about half my actual page views, the number of uncaught spam comments getting past Akismet is about 150 times the legitimate comments and the amount of spam it is catching is something like 5 times the number of legitimate visits to the blog. The worst part though is that the spam it isn’t catching is all stuff that uses terms I have in my blacklist all associated with the pharmaceutical, gaming and adult entertainment industries –

[Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO] Captcha: One of the coolest people to make plugins for wordpress (and the nicest guy I have met online) is Skippy, you might want to check his stuff out and if he doesn’t have what you want he will either design the plugin for you, educate you on what needs to be done to accomplish the task, or point you in the right direction. This is what wordpress is all about, a community and even Google can learn a lesson from this yes?

[Comments for Lunacy Unleashed] I got slashdotted! « Lunacy Unleashed: [...] Michael Hampton, creator of the excellent PHP-scripted Bad Behavior spam-fighting software (which, along with Spam Karma, has saved me from junk-comment migraines of a modest but repetitive nature), was slash-dotted a couple of days ago. Being that he had submitted the article himself, he admits to having a hand in his server’s subsequently pummelling: The server started showing signs of trouble fast.

[Drew B's take on tech PR] Drew B's take on tech PR: New social web tools we couldn't live ...: The heart of blogging for me is RSS; I feed everything from around the place into my RSS reader and use that as the filter.

[threshold state] threshold state: Cast your vote: Textpattern membership: , like Wordpress and other projects, has always been part of an admirable Open Source attitude. This move will unavoidably divide the community into two, and it’s inevitable that more attention will be paid to the community that’s paying for it.

[Comments for Climate Audit] Auditblogs.com « Climate Audit: So this is a Wordpress MU installation (exactly the same software that runs Wordpress.com) but with LaTeX, Spam Karma and Bad Behavior support installed as standard. It looks and feels almost exactly the same as a standalone copy of Wordpress, .

[ActiveRain Real Estate Network] Real Estate Blog - Writing about the same topic - An Inspiration!: One of the authors commented that it would have been appreciated if the writer wrote an inspiring comment within the author’s blog. I have seen within the comment sections of various blogs great comments, which could have been easily its own blog post.

[USMJParty Of Kentucky] Jack's Condition - Jack Herer's MySpace Blog | - USMJParty Of Kentucky: I flew to Portland, went to the hospital and was told that a woman named Joy Graves had come to the hospital with a Medical Power of Attorney that Jack had allegedly signed, naming her and Chuck Jacobs as the people in charge of Jack’s medical care. It wasn’t complete and looks like someone forged his signature.

[SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog] SEOmoz | 5 Common Pieces of SEO Advice I Disagree With: However, from a practicality standpoint, it may still be valuable to your business to call out spam to the search engines so your site/page has a more level playing field from which to operate (as a white hat, competing against spammers is no fun). The vast majority of smart SEOs I've ever encountered expect that their sites are being consistently spam reported and thus engage only in tactics that are either 100% white hat or which they feel confident the engines will be hard pressed to discover (to my mind, the former makes far more sense).

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