Buried Bones (Archive) for October, 2005

Ning is Da Thing

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 5th, 2005 11:30 am

Let’s say you’ve gotten revved up in all the buzz of social software, Web 2.0 (3.7? 10.0?), folksonomy etc… How many of us really have the prowess to sit down and code something like flickr or del.icio.us or facebook?? Well, I just too k a glance, but I would guess Ning is the thing– [...]

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How To Waste A Full Day

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 5th, 2005 12:01 am

Whew. Due to some malicious activity that wormed its way onto this server, we had to yank it off the network yesterday. Today was spent re-installing the OS, tripping over apache settings, trying to get those *#&$^ obscure perl modules working for some &#*#* old MovableType blogs running here.
My regrets to web sites hosed [...]

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Ferreting Out Spamvertisers

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 3rd, 2005 11:24 am

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten riled up by blog comment spam roaches, especially true since SpamKarma is doing a real bang up job of stopping them before they get far into my WordPress site.
But wow.’. check out Tom Coates’ PlasticBag post On Cillit Bang and a new low for marketers…, a detailed narrative [...]

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qtkpnk : Blogger Word Verification

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 2nd, 2005 7:36 am

Sign of the times- Just noticed that a new setting available for Blogger hosted blogs you can add a “word verification” or captcha entry field for comments… one of those randomly generated graphics of scrambled letters that a human must enter to add a comment to a blog. This is intended to cut down [...]

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