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 [Andrew Ferguson dot NET] Akismet API: This was kind of odd because it wasn't that long since I had last checked my email. Shortly thereafter, I had this great idea to see if I could somehow integrate the Akismet antispam technology into the Dunstan-style Error Page.

 [PaulStamatiou.com] Customizing K2: Part 5: Weighing in at roughly 47kB, the prototype.js bundled with K2 r167 is a hefty JavaScript framework that allows your K2 blog to have things like livesearch, live commenting and rolling archives. (note that the newer, SVN versions of K2 use a lighter prototype at just 10kB) My general rule of thumb is that while this JavaScript adds some neat features it adds not only to the time it takes to download the file but also gives the browser the extra task of executing such a file.

 [Bens House] It's been 2 weeks: I got my invite to it a couple of days ago and found out that merely 71% of you are using Internet Explorer (although 7.62% of those are using IE7). Oh, and I should apologise to the guy who's using 1920x1200 as his screen resolution - I haven't been able to test the site at that res, so I've no idea how it looks.

 [The Third Path] 2006-Q1 Index: Index of blog posts for the first quarter of 2006: 131 countries and counting 500,000 Little Pieces The Academy Awards® Alberto Gonzales on Gitmo Alito and McClellan Alito and strip-searching 10yo girls for drugs Alito and the Concerned Alumni, again Alpha Phi Alpha's second century of service The Amazingly Tacky Race America dodged a bullet with

 [Unsolicited Marketing Advice] Characteristics & Communication Implications of... : They write one way for a news release and another way for a sales brochure and yet another way for business correspondence. Likewise, they’ll choose direct mail in one situation and write long copy, while for the same product in a different situation they’ll write incredibly short copy for a billboard or print ad.

 [Sixapart.com] Six Log: Comment Spam: Jay Allen has built a blacklist plug-in to filter Movable Type comment/trackback spam. A must have to stop the ever grow blog spam problem. ...

 [Kalsey.com] Comment spam :: Adam Kalsey: For weblog with few comment volume, pre approval of comments may be the answer. If you know that your comment will first be read by a moderator/blog owner, and that you know that it will never be approved why would you want to put a comment spam ?Pre approval via email turn a Comment Spam into a regular spam with smaller audience and regular email spam tool already available could be used…

 [Unknowngenius.com] Dr Dave » Blog Archive » Introducing Spam Karma: For our more tech oriented friends, here are a few more insights on the rather complex process used by Spam Karma to decide what’s spam and what’s not. Each of the following filter is given a weight varying on many factors, ranking from user-controlled values (e.g.: after how many days is a post “old”?) to the credibility that can be given to a test (e.g.: a missing header is less important than a blacklisted IP).

 [Diveintomark.org] Weblog spam [dive into mark]: This is old hat to anyone who’s been involved in anti-spam efforts in other domains (Usenet and email spring to mind), but just like everything else, the weblogging community seems intent on (a) thinking they’re special and unique and nobody has ever had their problems before, and proceeding to (b) ignore all the work that has come before and reinventing the wheel.

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