The news in the tech world this morning is that of the murder-suicide of “Spam King” Eddie Davidson. It’s a sad event. Mr. Davidson fatally shot his wife and three year old daughter and wounded a teenage girl (who may or may not be his daughter, I can’t tell from any of the stories) before [...]
When I moved to the new design, I switched the “popular posts” plugin to the much more feature rich plugin “Popularity Contest” by Alex King. I really like the plugin and the features that it added. I like that I can weight the different aspects of the posts popularity. If I think that Comments are [...]
There is always talk on sites like mine about how you have to actively manage your profile online. You have to be in control of your brand. But what happens when it isn’t your profile that has the problem. What happens when the honest content that you create (albeit for monetary gain, but actual content) [...]
A little over a week ago I wrote that I had passed over the 100k mark on spam caught by Akismet. Shortly thereafter, Sarah of Stuff by Sarah pinged that post with a post of her own about some of the tactics that she uses to fight spam.
I made 3 major changes to the [...]
