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Some Amusing Spam Comments Caught By Akismet

Chris
Posted by Chris August 17, 2008
Categories: Blogging, Featured, WordPress

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Like everyone else, I hate spam, whether it be email, via SMS or through the post — but most of all I hate comment spam on blogs. Luckily there is help with filtering out most of the spam when blogging, as a WordPress user I make use of the Akismet plugin.

Since using Akismet it has caught all the spam on this blog and only one legit comment (ham).

Once a fortnight, sometimes weekly, I quickly look through the comments that have been filtered out at spam by Akismet. Using the spacebar I can scroll and scan the list of junk-filled comments with ease. I do this just to make sure that there are no worthwhile, legitimate comments that have been filtered as spam. Comments that contain lots of URLs soon whizz past, whereas the shorter ones may actually be permissible, so those are read.

Very occasionally there are those that amuse:

  • Interesting web page is, i’ll see you later one more timed
  • Your guestbook is example of middle-class guestbooks. Congratulation!
  • Just serfed in. Great site, guys!

Personally I like the way that there is a single ‘congratulation’ in the second comment.

Strangely the following religiously themed comments have been posted on Blog24 recently.

  • These prayers help me to keep God in my life, especially with the many distractions I encounter.
  • I have always wanted a compendium of novena prayers. Thank you for sharing all these prayers with us. It brings joy and happiness to everyone. I know, I do feel that way.
  • I can find the prayer I want. I thank God for this website.

Please do not thank God — thank me, via the comments perhaps.

To conclude, I highly recommend using the Akismet plugin for WordPress, and other blogging platforms. Alternatively use a service such as Disqus to manage and publish comments on your blog. Disqus also uses Akismet to filter spam from comments.

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Popular FriendFeeders

Chris
Posted by Chris July 07, 2008
Categories: Social Networks


Step 2—Geek Party!, originally uploaded by bizstone.

 

This screenshot, uploaded to Flickr by Twitter’s Biz Stone, provides a clue to how certain people have become increasingly ‘popular’ on friendfeed.com.

Allen Stern, of centernetworks.com explains why the likes Loic Le Meur, Dave Winer, Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte have so many followers:

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Easily Share Screen Grabs Fast

Chris
Posted by Chris May 02, 2008
Categories: Apple, Software

grabUp IconGrabUp is a neat piece of Apple freeware that frequent bloggers may find useful, especially when the next version is released.

GrabUp is actually an Apple OSX preference pane that modifies the standard screen grab keystrokes that are built into the Apple operating system. Rather than saving the resulting images locally on your computer they are saved online using a unique and private URL. Not only that the generated URL is stored ready for use in the clipboard ready to paste wherever required with a simple COMMAND V keystroke.

While this may seem illogical at first to some it all depends why you take screen shots.

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Matt Mullenweg: WordPress 2.5 and Beyond

Chris
Posted by Chris April 07, 2008
Categories: Blogging, WordPress

Matt Mullenweg Website ScreenshotWordPress Project Leader Matt Mullenweg’s presentation at this year’s WordCamp in Dallas.

Matt mainly talks about the latest release of WordPress (2.5) minutes after its release. This video shows off WordPress 2.5’s new features but also serves as a great introduction to WordPress for new users.

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45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog

Chris
Posted by Chris April 07, 2008
Categories: Blogging

John Pozadzides of One Man\'s Blog fameWatch John Pozadzides presentation for useful tips for bloggers. This presentation took place at this year’s WordCamp in Dallas.

Even if you are not WordPress user John’s presentation is full of useful information and great tips that are easy to implement and should improve your blog’s success.

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