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Archives for June 2005
Nice Try, Spammers
There has been a massive spam attack going on recently, not just on my site, but on others as well. The spams so far have been Trackback spams as well as referrer spams. In the last 3 days, over 20,000 spam attempts have been stopped at my site. Three were stopped by Spam Karma 2, and the other 20,000 or so were stopped by Bad Behavior (which could aptly be called my “first line of defense.”) No spams have made it through during this attack.
Keep trying, guys.
Subscribe to Comments 2.0-beta-1
My Subscribe to Comments 2.0 has been officially released in “beta” form. A big thank you goes out to the many people who helped me troubleshoot the plugin during the limited alpha release for the last two months! The code is very stable now, and the “beta” designation is just indicating that I’m planning on active development and bug fixing (if any should show up) in the next few weeks.
Now that the plugin has been officially released, I’m going to submit it to the WordPress plugin competition, where I think it has a decent shot at the “Best Community Plugin” category ($500 prize).
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New Technorati
The new beta Technorati layout is looking fantastic. They have quite a team of people working there.
Kramer
I’ve been experimenting with a new WordPress plugin called Kramer. What it does is query the Technorati service to see who has linked to your entries but not left a Pingback or a Trackback and it creates Technorati Pingbacks for those links. I essentially rewrote the plugin and am continuing to improve on it. I’ll be providing my changes back to the author for eventual public consumption. So if you see Pingback comments with the little green Technorati symbol in the upper right corner, that’s where those came from! It’s pretty cool, especially for bloggers who aren’t Pingback/Trackback savvy. Technorati eventually will notice, and my site will ask it what sites have linked to a specific entry, and a Pingback will be automatically created.
Deep Throat Revealed
I heard this one as it broke on the radio, but I’ve been away from my computer until now. The person known as “Deep Throat,” the anonymous source for Woodward and Bernstein’s series of articles that brought the Watergate scandal to light has come forward and identified himself. “Deep Throat” is W. Mark Felt, the number 2 guy in the FBI at the time. Woodward and Bernstein had pledged to keep their source’s identify a secret until his death, but have confirmed his identity, now that he has stepped forward. Felt is 91 years old and lives in Santa Rosa. In 1999, he denied being “Deep Throat,” and says that even his family didn’t know about his secret identity until 2002. And contrary to what Rush Limbaugh said today, it is a reference to the famous pornographic film of the day.
Wikipedia is all over it, with a bunch of interesting information.