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Marc Liyanage - Software - Mac OS X Packages - PHP
The latest PHP packages for Mac OS X. Very detailed instructions.
Bud posted this on May 12, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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)
Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit
"Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers,"
Bud posted this on November 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
XML.com: REST on Rails
A way of creating highly interactive web sites with xml and html, the latest wave.
Bud posted this on November 7, 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)
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)
The Road To Powerful Instant Vertical Communities: Personal Media Aggregators - Robin Good's Latest News
Allows you to create communities around specific topics. Sort of pulls everything together around those topics. Seems rather top down to me.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Consuming Experience: Technorati tags: an introduction
A good resource on technorati tags. You can create a watchlist to follow tags.
Bud posted this on February 27, 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)
Forrester Chief on 'Organic IT'
This article is about RSS. Technical solutions for RSS will become commoditized. The real value remains in trying to figure out how to use it for your business.
Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Emergent Learning: Social Networks and Learning Networks - Stephen Downes
The real point here is to use open protocols to construct things as the need arises. A lot of vendors want to lock you into their tools. I don't think there is a tools market. There is a place market maybe.
Bud posted this on February 16, 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)
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)
Submit Your RSS Feed To MSN Search Via XML-RPC - Robin Good's Latest News
Pinging moreover seems key to getting your blog searched in MSN, unless of course you are super visible.
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)
Introducing: Tagback
A way of supporting conversations on the web. Also a nice way to spread the meme. But others have to catch on and do this by hand, a barrier.
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Submit Your RSS Feed To MSN Search Via XML-RPC
A good overview of how to get yourself noticed by MSN and other search engines. Have to do this.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tag-aware RSS feeds
How to get your tags to appear in your feeds. Now, this functionality has been available for a long time for categories in many blog publishing softwares. This really comes down to a question of categorization and software support for it.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wikipedia's Rank Decision
So, telling search engines to ignore certain outbound links, denies credit to those resources that you used to build your site. The purported motivation is combatting SPAM, but SPAM is really about real estate, not pagerank.
Bud posted this on February 3, 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)
Validating a Custom DTD
How to put custom attributes in your xhtml and get it to validate. A how-to.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Interview with a link spammer | The Register
This guy is looking for real estate, not search engine results. Removing the search engine incentive will not remove SPAM.
Bud posted this on February 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The "no nofollow" religion
I wonder if nofollow is really anything but a sham. On many sites, perhaps not Scoble's, comments add real value. For a few high profile people, there are hangers-on.
Bud posted this on January 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
del.icio.uus Tag Stemming (Clay Shirky)
Remarkably, a tool to help you see where you have used similar (but not the same) words to tag items. The idea is to make your own personal tags more consistent and perhaps reduce their count.
Bud posted this on January 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
John Battelle's Searchblog: (Updated) Follow On No Follow: Will "Fully web-expressed writing" Suffer?
A very good discussion of nofollow. Really touches on the implications of denying the information value in comments. Sounds like the cure was worse than the disease.
Bud posted this on January 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Why tags should be URLs (Kevin Marks)
Basically, URLs would make the tags unique and identifiable. Perhaps a definition at the other end. This sounds like a proposal at a further stage of formality than most tagging behavior.
Bud posted this on January 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
You can't be too thin
A new audio format that will make podcasts more economical.
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Nofollow May Be a Rank Solution
More on the nofollow solution to weblog comment SPAM. The issue is that this cuts both ways. Weblogs are no longer based on everybody sharing in the conversation. This has to reduce their value.
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Speed up your FireFox
This particular fix can also hose your network if things get out of control. In the past, has been noted to slow down performance in some cases.
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Stop the spread of Viral Link Skank today
Personally, I agree that the nofollow tag departs from reciprocity. I'm not so against search engine optimizers if they add real content. Let freedom reign.
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Is rel = "nofollow" really as !important as that?
Inhibiting linking behavior to fight SPAM is destroying the social network, no two ways about it.
Bud posted this on January 20, 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)
Should we follow the "nofollow" scheme?
Makes the excellent point that the nofollow scheme for blocking comment SPAM will inhibit discoverability of conversations in the blogosphere. Isn't that what it is all about?
Bud posted this on January 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slashdot | Google Cans Comment Spam
A trove of perspectives on the nofollow attribute idea for blocking comment SPAM in blogs. Slashdot does not do any SPAM blocking itself. Instead it relies on a volunteer comment moderation system with editorial control over which stories appear.
Bud posted this on January 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
John Battelle's Searchblog: No Follow
I have to say I agree with Battelle's observation that implementing a nofollow tag in html essentially allows people to form winner-take-all cartels in terms of hording pagerank. It's not just about SPAM, it's about controlling who is in your group.
Bud posted this on January 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sifry's Alerts: Call for a Web 2.0 Spam Squashing Summit
Technorati is also making the move to implement the nofollow attribute in href tags to squash comment SPAM
Bud posted this on January 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)