Archive for the 'spam' Category
MyBlogLog Community Messages Are Annoying
4 Comments Published July 10th, 2007 in MyBlogLog, blogging, blogs, social networking sites, spamMany of you are users of MyBlogLog and probably already agree with the title of this post. Andy Beard has written an article detailing his own frustrations with MyBlogLog’s New Features and, as usual, I find it hard to disagree. He goes as far as to say that he is leaving any community that makes [...]
How Many Layers Are Necessary to Protect Against Comment Spam?
15 Comments Published March 20th, 2007 in blogging, blogs, comments, spam, wordpress, wordpress pluginsI’ve been using Akismet to fight comment spam here on FreshBlogger and I have to say that it’s working great. Out of the literally hundreds of spam comments this blog receives each day, only one or two make it through to moderation, if any. Considering the absolute deluge of spam, this is a pretty good [...]
Am I Hopelessly Behind The Curve With MyBlogLog?
9 Comments Published February 21st, 2007 in blogging, blogs, networking, social networking sites, spamIt seems like all the blogs I read have the cute little widget from MyBlogLog in their sidebar. Everywhere I go I’m seeing the tiny pictures of all the latest readers of their blogs. To be honest, I tend to ignore stuff like this, at least initially, because I only have time lately to soak [...]


