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December 28th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part III

Part III: Identifying Comment Spam

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October 16th, 2009

Twitter’s Report for Spam Feature

Block and report with one simple click.

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July 7th, 2009

PLEASE Report and Block Twitter Spammers

It’s getting completely out of control.

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February 28th, 2009

February 2009 Links

Links for the month of February.

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February 10th, 2009

Twitter Etiquette: What Do YOU Think?

Help me write a blog post about Twitter Etiquette.

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January 31st, 2009

January 2009 Links

Links for the month of January.

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January 16th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part II

Part II: When Comments Go Wrong

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January 9th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part I

Part I: Understanding Comments and Pingpacks

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October 31st, 2008

October 2008 Links

October 2008 Links.

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April 8th, 2008

Upgrade WordPress Plugins Automatically

One of the great new features of WordPress 2.5.

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February 11th, 2008

February 9 Links

Links worth following.

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January 30th, 2008

Subscribing to this Site

A quick note about how you can conveniently get new content from this site.

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January 13th, 2008

Bad Behavior/Digg Conflict

A problem and a fix.

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December 31st, 2007

CommentLuv = SpammerLuv?

One drawback to a WordPress plugin.

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December 13th, 2007

Using Leopard’s Mosaic Screen Saver

A very cool screen saver for folks with a lot of photos stored on their Macs.

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December 3rd, 2007

Site Changes: 3-Dec-07

A few minor tweaks.

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November 29th, 2007

All Pingbacks Must Die

I’ve had my last pingback spam.

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November 16th, 2007

Site Topics Available as RSS Feeds and E-Mail Subscriptions

Get content delivered to your RSS reader or e-mail box.

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November 15th, 2007

Deleting Spam from Your WordPress Blog

Marking it as spam isn’t enough to get rid of it.

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November 1st, 2007

CommentLuv

A WordPress plugin that helps commenters promote their own blogs.

Yesterday, while following up on a pingback — I get a ton of pingback spam from sploggers — I discovered a legitimate link to an article on my blog. (Imagine that!) I decided to thank the author of the post linked to mine with

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August 21st, 2007

Beware of the Latest Scam

Confirmation e-mails from sites you never joined.

Yesterday, I got an e-mail message that went something like this:

From: [omitted] Subject: Member Confirm Date: August 20, 2007 9:05:49 PM MST To: [omitted]

Welcome,

Thank You for Joining Web Cooking.

Confirmation Number: 769799922 Temorary Login: user4129 Password ID: qb371

Your temporary Login Info will expire

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August 6th, 2007

Mail Stop Working? Here’s a Fix.

What to do if your ISP blocks Port 25.

A few months ago, I was suddenly unable to send e-mail from my computer. And I hadn’t changed a thing.

The problem wasn’t just my desktop computer. It was also my laptop and my husband’s laptop. The computers could receive e-mail. And they could access

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April 12th, 2007

Why WordPress.com is Virtually Spam Free

A great article on Plagiarism Today.

As those of you who read this site regularly should know, I’ve been pretty POed about the blog spam and splogging situation. I subscribed to the Plagiarism Today feed because of its excellent articles about copyright and the fight against feed scraping by sploggers.

Today’s article about

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April 12th, 2007

Fighting Spam — All Kinds

How I deal with comment and pingback spam.

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February 22nd, 2007

How to Advertise Special Offers with your WordPress Blog

A surprisingly simple solution.

If you operate a blog-based Web site — or even a Web site that includes a separate blog — there’s a good chance that you can use the built-in category and RSS feed features to distribute special offers to site visitors by e-mail.

I set this up on my

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