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[Emergent Chaos] We've been flooded with comment spam. I've added one of those annoying captcha things that don't work, and a mandatory comment confirmation page.

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[David Seah - Design, Development, Inspiration, Empowerment] Welcome to Opposite Week!: Avrum: Thanks for the link to differentiation of self, that’s an interesting view. My armchair theory on self-assessment/motivation is that if you can get someone to start rolling, you might be able to kick-start some of that sense of confidence that can lead to self-governance…the “try it…you’ll like it”

[wiseGEEK: Learn Something New Every Day] How Can I Fight Comment Spam?: if you use a specific type of software to manage your website, keep up with the developer's notes and software updates. In addition to keying you in to new features, notes and updates will also keep your version of the software current, ensuring that malicious people and software cannot target the security holes which are inevitably found eventually in every software release.

[ReadWriteWeb] YouTube Spam Panic Emerging; Why Don't All Networks Have Spam Control?: Regardless of all that, unless increasingly high-profile social media outlets like YouTube take effective steps to stop both messaging and content spam we can expect not only more unsolicited email but also a pile of media coverage on the topic. I just thought I'd get in on the news cycle early and put it in context.

[2.0: theblogmocracy.com] Obama administration discovers water is wet ”º 2.0: theblogmocracy.com: The reason the country is uneasy about the Obama administration’s response to this attack is a distinct sense of not just incompetence but incomprehension. From the very beginning, President Obama has relentlessly tried to play down and deny the nature of the terrorist threat we continue to face.

[Matthew Yglesias] Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of Scott Brown: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is now committed to nearly $1 million in television ads in support of Coakley while the Service Employees International Union ($529,000) and Citizens for Strength and Security ($278,000), a labor-backed 527 group, are also spending heavily.

[Profy] Akismet Confirms They See Increased Blog Comments Spam, Suggests ...: As some of you may remember, over the weekend I published some of my thoughts about very visible increase in spam volumes that arrives in comments to blogs. I was not the only person noticing that and my idea was that spammers were trying to compensate for loss of email channel for spam after McColo hosting company responsible for three quarters of the total worldwide spam volume was disconnected from the internet.

[Michael Specter, author of "Denialism"] Damn Spam « Michael Specter, author of "Denialism": Definitions vary, as does the line between spam and annoying but legal ads. (Like pornography, however, which has profited greatly from the ease and privacy of electronic junk mail, you know it when you see it.) Few companies could function without attempting to stop spam from invading their employees’

[Blog Catalog Blog Directory] Financial Services Information Blog - Information, Comments ...: For a lot of us who usually survive from payday to payday, payday loans can be a tremendous help if we get into a pinch or have a cash emergency. A tire can go flat on your automobile, a problem tooth needs to be looked at, ... may be impossible to find out just who it was that came up with the old saying about being strapped for money, but almost anyone you ask will absolutely be able to let you know what it means. The only circumstance more annoying than being out of c . ...

[The Big Picture] The Big Picture » Blog Archive » Open Thread: What Will 2010 Bring?: • Interest Rates, FOMC 1% end of year • Will Ben Benranke be reappointed? If not, then who will?

[Cracked: All Posts] Top 8 Reasons the new Cracked.com Is Doomed to Fail | Cracked.com: you should do a "Top 9 Spam Comments From All Of The Comments Sections On This Site" or "Top 9 Reasons Why We Don't Moderate Our Comments Sections" or "BUY BUY BUY INTERACIAL BBW MUSLIM SEXY SINGLES MAN AND WOMEN FOR YOUYOUYOU ALL TV FREELAND.COM!!!!!1"

[bioephemera] On Comments: Grammar Nazis and Eccentrics? Honestly! : bioephemera: However, on a purely selfish note, I'll point out that as a blogger, constant errors would be totally unacceptable in my posts - I would get excoriated for them by my commenters. Although I have no urge to excoriate error-prone commenters in return, because I'm not a Grammar Nazi, it's a little annoying that I'm expected to be perfect in my own writing, but commenters don't even have to run spellcheck when they show up on my blog to tell me my opinions mean nothing.

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[When I Grow Up - The Blog] When I Grow Up - The Blog » Blog Archive » 1 Thing in 2010: Started doing some freelance interior design work to build up my portfolio, built up my emergency savings fund, baked bread, sold some illustrations for a publication (technically one of my life goals , became a Godmother to my best friend’s little boy, finally bought a new bed, found a green design group to volunteer with, and took my cousin on a trip to Key West (another life goal). Can’t wait to see what this year holds!

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