Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

The fight against spam

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

Spam sucks.

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of it. Both over email and in comments on my blog here.

Well it got so annoying that many blog posts had over 40 spam comments vs 1 real comment ;) Or worse..

Anyway, my blog is not that popular, but I cant let it overgrow with spam. So I installed a nice little tool to keep automated spammers at bay, it forces you to write a number you see on the screen that a bot can not read easilly. Not too bothersome for a quick comment and does not require stupid registrations with central servers (TypeKey? WTF?).

I am confused as to why the creators of MovableType chose not to add a similar feature into the newest version of their software, since obviously most people would not be bothered to register just to post a quick comment, but typing in an extra number is no big deal. Sheesh.

Well, as for email spam, that is not so easy to deal with. Well, we’ll see what happens.

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Blogger Meetup Stockholm: The aftermath

Sunday, June 13th, 2004

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Today I was at an informal gathering of a few bloggers in Stockholm, on the roof café at Kulturhuset. The man behind the initiative was Joi Ito. Joi turned out to be a nice guy, down to earth and filled with interesting ideas (this was no surprise to anyone who has been following his blog, of course). The other people who attended (Maya, Per, Max, Ludovic, Erik, Jon, Kim, David and Roine) were also really cool and we discussed a lot of interesting issues on both large and small scales.

Well, Max is only 6 months old so he mostly kept quiet throughout the entire thing.
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