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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)
The MySpace Generation
Bolsters my perception that the world is becoming an online one. In essence, online is holding court with the real world.
Bud posted this on December 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
apophenia: justice, fairness, power and privilege
Actually a fairly thoughtful piece on how the cost of blogging is time, and time is the result of having liesure, often a side-effect of privilege.
Bud posted this on November 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I don’t just “use” the Internet, so why am I a user?
It’s because whenever I hear that term I always translate it to “slave generated content.” Here’s why: there’s a lot of companies who are expecting you to help out their business models
Bud posted this on November 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Amazon receives customer reviews patent
The patent covers the solicitation of a review and what metrics might be used to determine the right time to solicit a review. The patent was originally filed over five and a half years ago to better compete with a site such as Epinions.com.
Bud posted this on November 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blog-Spotting With IBM
Not entirely clear how this works. It's not a service. It seems like it is a software that you install and then I suppose set it loose on some set of blogs. Wouldnt' it be better if it were a service, for scalability if nothing else?
Bud posted this on November 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
USATODAY.com - Teens wear their hearts on their blog
Unprecedented numbers of teens are using blogs — Web logs — for: cementing friendships with classmates, seeking new friends, venting, testing social limits, getting support and getting all emo
Bud posted this on October 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google spam suite primer
Niall works for a technorati competitor, but he does an excellent job pointing up the flaws in google's ecosystem. The question, as always, is what is the alternative.
Bud posted this on October 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ning | Home: Front Page
Ning is a social software development platform. Basically, you build an application and others sign up to be part of it. But, they are also signing up to be part of the whole platform. Your application becomes part of a whole ecology to attract users.
Bud posted this on October 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google's Big Problem, or Google vs the Social
Google search is algorithmic, meaning no explicit editors. However, Google's use of links to determine relevance means there are many implicit editors. I wonder if the novelty problem the author mentions is not due to freshness, a real google problem.
Bud posted this on September 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Googlebombing Now A "Prank" And Not Web's Opinion, Says Google
Links are the currency of the web. If you interlink, you gain visibility, period.
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slashdot | Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children
Is this big brother or just a better way to service these people as they go through life.
Bud posted this on September 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Search: Big indexes versus microformats
Makes the point that adding metadata like tags and microformats needs to be ridiculously easy.
Bud posted this on September 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Dark Side of Technorati Tags
What works for photos doesn’t work for words.
Bud posted this on August 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
For Musicians, MySpace Is Site to Be Seen and Heard
Music has helped MySpace generate Web traffic that rivals some of the Internet's titans.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Spam, Hot Spam, Now Only $0.10 Each!
An analysis that pegs the cost of email SPAM at $0.10 per. The author feels this is too high because of filters, but you do have to spend time managing the filters and retrieving thins marked as SPAM which are in fact not. There is also processing cost to consider. If more than half of all email is SPAM, then more than half of all mail server capacity is there because of SPAM.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Craigslist is a Community, Not an Application
So the value is in the community, not in the software used to create it.
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Online Groups: participation coaching
An important point about the need for facilitation in the group. I wonder if the participation coach ever goes away. Most real groups need communication facilitators, and they get paid a lot.
Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Groupware
The thing is that all of these technologies are getting a growing user base, people who know how to do it. The problem with proprietary solutions is that no one knows how to do them and people have trouble connecting.
Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Submitting Ristek blogs to delicious
A way of creating community around delicious links. It must be using the RSS space for the particular tag. Interesting use. You might have to use hierarchical tags.
Bud posted this on February 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Can blog spam be solved like email spam?
Suggests something like collaborative filtering to delete SPAM. This is a little what is going on with MT-Blacklist.
Bud posted this on February 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Experimenting with Picasa and Hello
In my book, the brain-dead interface of blogger wins for novices. You can get people on and doing it with almost no effort. It's nice to see that additional features are added with that guiding concept in mind.
Bud posted this on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
From Personalization to Socialization (Ross Mayfield)
I'm not so sure weblogs are not social or that the interaction described is not social. What makes a social space is how you construct it, not the tool.
Bud posted this on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Emergent or Structured Reputation: Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia
So, the notion of wikipedia just emerging without control is debunked. Control is a central aspect of wikipedia although exercised informally.
Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The economics of sharing
A key point is that not everyone believes in sharing. Evidence from experiments show that people just quit sharing when this occurs or form separate, sharing groups.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Bad Webloggers, Bad
A brilliant rejoinder on nofollow and comment SPAM. She essentially advocates the sharing is good point of view.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Some Things Aren't Worth Saving
A good note on trackback SPAM and the difficulty of managing it with a popular blog. The thing that works best is to stop comments on older things. The web as a thing of the moment.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How do you stop a wiki from being ruined?
Yes!! Wikis are so open, it would seem that you can only use them for a trusted group. On the wild, wild Internet, people will deface things that are just left open, leading to a maintenance headache.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tagsurf: Tagged Hyperforum
This is a cross between a blog, a bulletin board, and a social bookmarking system with tags. A key innovation is that tags can be URIs. This somewhat obviates the need to agree on tags or search by tags. Identifying by URLs is more natural.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Levengers Launches and Online Community
This should be interesting to see how it works. It looks like something you have to join and contribute your content to. Is this passe post-blog?
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Folkonomy of Words (Ross Mayfield)
Exactly how people should use tagging. Use it to find other people who are tagging the same item. Then, see what they think.
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Daily Hits Via Technorati
Shows how to put the technorati tracked mentions of your posts on your blog.
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Personal tech bubbles
What does it mean to be walled off? You are electronically connected. Is this richer communication, pooer, or just different?
Bud posted this on February 7, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Contact and Feed Flow (Ross Mayfield)
A nice response to Christopher Allen. Basically, one is limited by the Dunbar number in terms of active connections (you can actively maintain relations with at most 150). However, it seems quite possible to have dormant relationships.
Bud posted this on February 6, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Great Social Networking Posts
A nice critique of social networking tools. Do they just represent associations? He went to SXSW.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Dunbar Triage: Too Many Connections
A follow up on his earlier Dunbar piece. Focuses directly on the need to manage the large number of relationships made possible by social software. I'd like to have a network of hundreds of people.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Rob Cross | The Hidden Power of Social Networks
Rob Cross's web site. He has made a business of social networks. Nice.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Live Blogging Patty Anklam's Teleconference on CPSquare
A lengthy, stream of consciousness piece on a very interesting social networking talk. Many very good links on the inside. [Update: Nancy White writes to remind me that she was basically transcribing Patty Anklam in this post and added the links later.]
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
A deep anlaysis on the "optimal" size of social groups. The suggested maxium is 150, and that really is a maximum, working only for groups that have a real reason to stay together. Worth citing a lot.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)