I’m trying out a new plugin for wordpress to help with comment spam. If anyone has problems commenting please send an email to dave AT droyer DOT org.
Thanks…
PS: The plugin I’m trying out is WordPress HashCash.
I’m addicted to my news reader. I’d be lost without it. If you haven’t yet discovered the wonder that is a news reader and RSS sindication, the US Army War College has a greate primer titled “What is RSS?“.
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There seems to be quite a chorus out there of people not too happy about the “licensing changes for Movable Type 3″:http://www.sixapart.com/corner/archives/2004/05/its_about_time.shtml. “Technorati has a good list of discussions about the new licensing changes.”:http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sixapart.com%2Fcorner%2Farchives%2F2004%2F05%2Fits_about_time.shtml
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“mediatinker.com”:http://www.mediatinker.com has a great artcle describing the “details behind MovableType templates”:http://www.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/007806.html.
Here’s something for you “Jane”:http://www.droyer.org/~jane/blog/.
Here’s a real good description of “creating how to create a photolog using MovableType”:http://www.moonpost.com/jeremy/photolog5steps.html.
I don’t get too mayn comments in my blog. I’m not doing this to entertain people…mostly just for my own amusement! Anyway, I can’t stand SPAM. lately I’ve been seeing more and more spam comments so I decided to implement James Seng’s “Bayesian filter for MT”:http://james.seng.cc/archives/000152.html. This Rocks! “I’m already a big fan of Bayesian filters for email”:http://www.droyer.org/~dave/archives/000309.php and this sounds like a good application for it as well.
I found the small buttons on the right at several different websites. I was just poking around at “Mandarin Design”:http://www.mandarindesign.com/blogger.html and I found this great link. It’s an “automatic button maker”:http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/!
Jeremy Zawodny has an interesting article about how “the prevalence of Blogs has affected google’s PageRank so profoundly”:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html. It will be interesting to see if google really is trying to ’solve’ this ‘problem’, as talked about in the article.
“Scriptygoddess”:http://www.scriptygoddess.com has an article about how to “move all your Live Journal content to Movable Type”:http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/004229.php.
Here’s an interesting blog I ran across. “Bagdad Burning”:http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ is a blog by a female Iraqi. She has a very good command of the english language. Interesting reading.
(Link from “BoingBoing”:http://www.boingboing.net)
A little while ago “Jane”:http://www.droyer.org/~jane/blog/ and I were talking about blogrolling and MovableType. Frankly, I haven’t added or changed mine in quite a while because I find “blogrolling.com”:http://www.blogrolling.com a pain in the butt to use. I just ran across a very smple idea that is really cool. “Why not setup another blog just for your blogroll?”:http://dylan.tweney.com/weblog/000611.html This is something I’m definately going to play with and try to setup.
“Here’s another similar idea”:http://dylan.tweney.com/weblog/000611.html
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A new version of w.bloggar was released today. This version supports Movable Type’s Extended Entry feature!
W.bloggar is a windows tool to help you post to your blog without using the web-interface.
Now here’s a cool idea. Rather than a normal ‘404′ eooro message, hook up a search engine to automatically search your blog for something similar.
The example and article are “here”:http://nslog.com/archives/2003/02/26/404_search_function_code.php – Found at “Scripty Goddess”:http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/003734.php
“Dive Into Mark”:http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/04/09/movable_type_templates_tutorial.html has links to 3 Movable Type template tutorials that are pretty good:
* “What’s a Movable Type template?”:http://www.yarinareth.net/caveatlector/archive/week_2003_04_06.html#e001513
* “Anatomy of a template”:http://www.yarinareth.net/caveatlector/archive/week_2003_04_06.html#e001514
* “Preferences and placeholders”:http://www.yarinareth.net/caveatlector/archive/week_2003_04_06.html#e001517
Just a few pages related to making a personal portal with Movable Type
* “From GeekGrrl”:http://www.geekgrrl.com/archives/002046.php
* “portal tips”:http://kadyellebee.com/mt/past/2003/04/007559.php
* “portal sample”:http://blogstyles.com/portal/portal.php.txt