I must stress that this is a test for the Firefox blogging plugin ScribeFire and therefore some formatting may be unusual. I take that back — formatting was perfect!
ScribeFire is a plugin for Firefox which will turn the popular web browser into an editor for bloggers. ScribeFire supports many blogging services including; LiveJournal, Tumblr, Xanga and MySpace. Many blogging platforms such as WordPress, Moveable Type and Drupal, are supported too.
ScribeFire, an extension of Firefox ®, enables users to easily drag and drop formatted text from the Web into their blog(s), post entries, take notes, and optimize their ad inventory, directly through the Firefox browser.
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.
Some of you may have noticed a few quirks in Blog24 layout and design. These are caused by plugins that are being used to improve the site but their output has not been styled yet.
Sorry for any vexation caused by irksome layout. Be assured that these little oddments will be fixed as soon as possible.
I suppose that there is a lesson or two to be learnt here:
![[del.icio.us]](http://blog24.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
![[Digg]](http://blog24.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/digg.png)
![[Google]](http://blog24.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/google.png)
![[StumbleUpon]](http://blog24.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/stumbleupon.png)
![[Windows Live]](http://blog24.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/windowslive.png)
![[Yahoo!]](http://blog24.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/yahoo.png)
![[Email]](http://blog24.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/email.png)
Some of you may have noticed a few quirks in Blog24 layout and design. These are caused by plugins that are being used to improve the site but their output has not been styled yet.
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