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Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet
An atni-SPAM tool that is getting a lot of press. Works based on a plug-in and a webservice. It uses social networks to identify SPAM.
Bud posted this on April 22, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MacZealots > Tutorials > Installing Movable Type on Tiger
This article is written for installing Movable Type on “Tiger” (Mac OS X 10.4.x). The Panther and older OS X versions of this article, have been relocated to their own seperate, permanent pages.
Bud posted this on April 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Neil's World - Running Movable Type on OS X with FastCGI
Notes on how to set up MT with FastCGI on your OS X box. Assumes you have set up MT to begin with.
Bud posted this on April 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Akismet for Moveable Type
A good post on a Moveable Type anti-spam tool. I'll have to install it for MT 3.2 blogs.
Bud posted this on April 16, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: More TypePad 2.0 details
Niall's take on Sixapart's move toward community sites like the learning remix. I think he misperceives the potential impact of the tools. They are not for lazy people but for people who want to pull together disparate community members.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Why Is Tagging So Hard?
"So TypePad is faced with the fact that many of their users want Web 2.0 style integration and they need to build it themself. That's a lot of work without much benefit to them."
Bud posted this on August 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ajax and weblogs
Ajax is a ridiculously easy technology to implement***, especially if you're using something like Movable Type which quickly and easily outputs chunks of XHTML.
Bud posted this on July 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
quickSub
a javascript for one-click subscribing to your blog. Sounds like a needed addition.
Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ajax Archive Drop Downs
With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you select an archive, rather than redirecting to the corresponding archive page, the appropriate posts will just replace those currently shown.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Tags Power Tool for Movable Type
And finally, it wouldn't be tags without an accompanying weighted list, so you can check out Dan Wolfgang's writeup of how to turn your new tags into a cloud.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Improved Google Sitemap Template
Anders Jacobsen has just posted a new Google SiteMap template which adds correct Last Modified dates to the output. Combined with Cameron Bulock's templates for category- or date-based sitemaps, these new templates are even more full-featured than the ori
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Six Apart - ProNet - MTLookup, Searching the MT Community
Michael Schneider, who runs the well-received new Movable Type weblog with tips and tricks, has just launched MTLookup.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Gauging The Value Of Six Apart
Another estimate of sixapart's value. Notes that the value of about is based on ad network, not blogs. The $820k price per blog was due to ads.
Bud posted this on February 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Six Apart Price Pool?
Weblog companies are selling at $820k/weblog per the nytimes acquisition of about.com. That seems steep and perhaps not the best way to look at it. Targeted ad performance is part of About's pricing.
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
mod_security for protecting your blog
Several technical hacks for protecting your MT blog. This is like any web application. Once it gets popular enough, lots of people try to whack at it.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Upload Directory script for FireFox
A hack to facilitate file uploads to MT in firefox.
Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Technorati Tag Query API
Introduces a new MT plugin for technorati tags
Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
movable type local improvements
He's taking a pro-active anti-spam approach using a new MT plugin. Why not use MT blacklist?
Bud posted this on January 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
BBS 05: Good Blog Design: Speed, Accessibility, Transparency, and Clarity
So, there is business in incorporating blogs into corporate web pages. I.e., tying it in as just a component.
Bud posted this on January 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MT Wiki - Setting up trackback
Gives a step-by-step guide for how to create a trackback pop-up.
Bud posted this on January 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
StopDesign Movable Type Photo Gallery
A remarkable photo gallery design using movable type.
Bud posted this on January 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I'm Not Telling
Remarkably, MT Blacklist, movable type comment spam blocker, appears not to work in windows. Whatever that means.
Bud posted this on January 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
John's Jottings: Technorati Tags in Movable Type
Some code to make technorati tags of your MT keywords. Again, the idea is increasing the spread of your posts.
Bud posted this on January 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
BlogMine Delivers RSS advertising service
So, now there is an MT plug-in to insert ads based on your post's text. Could this be turned around to your own calls to action.
Bud posted this on January 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Professional Network introduction to LiveJournal
A discussion of the LiveJournal purchase
Bud posted this on January 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
notes: Selling
An interesting amalgamation of paypal and typekey for the small guy
Bud posted this on January 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Using mod_rewrite against stupid comment spam bots... (by Jeremy Zawodny)
Rewrite rules to kill SPAM blog comments
Bud posted this on January 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)