Category: Blogging
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Making the News: Book Introduction (Draft)
Dan has posted the first draft of the introduction to his new book. Perhaps the first online collaborative book – he called for input last year. He is also now calling for more input. I had a good chat with him in London last year, very interesting guy. Have a look.
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$1 million bill leads to arrest
This reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons where Homer, Monty and Smithers visit Cuba and attempt to buy the island with a $1 trillion dollar bill that Monty stole He was supposed to have given it to the Europeans after the Second World War. Hehe. [via Back Seat Drivers]
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Trackbacks
John wonders about Trackback, I have mine turned off, but it seems to work when I link to other people.
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Cathy Seipp
Jackie D points to an article in the National Review Online, by Cathy Seipp’s on how her daughter’s blog got pundited, and spread throughout the blogosphere. Jackie is mentioned in the article, as are many of the Samizdata people, most of whom I had the pleasure of meeting last October. A great story.
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Tom on the Radio
My mate Tom Watson MP will be on BBC Radio tonight, I shall be listening in.
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Are the spammers creating bogus weblogs?
Ok, guys, I’m really p****d off. This morning I noticed referral spam in my referrals on Webalizer, and on the referrals list on the right side of this page. This referral came after a suspicious email, that I replied to in order the verify authenticity. Here was the original email: My name is Mark, and…
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Kangaroo
I’ve been wondering for the last few days why my weblog has been receiving more than the average number of visitors. It appears it’s down to a photograph of a kangaroo in my photos section. Its ranked in the top 100 on Google images – along with my picture of a cheetah. I am now…
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Frank McGahon
Frank has moved to Typepad! Well done Frank!
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Blog issues
Apologies to all those who tried to post comments recently, I had problems with MT upgrading, it seems to be sorted now. Looks like another good month, who would have thought my Sitemeter stats would top 40,000? I certainly didn’t.
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MT Blacklist
After a few small problems I have managed to install MT BlackList, anti-comment spam software. Its a great little piece of software, not only does it protect against future comment spam, it also goes back and deletes all previous comment spam. Now to create a good .htaccess file to protect against referral spam.