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April 21, 2008
One problem I've been noticing more and more as of late is that certain archived posts on blogs tend to become magnets for comment spam. One way to deal with this is to automatically close comments on posts after a...
September 11, 2007
We're in the process of applying a bunch of updates to the TechnologyEvangelist.com blogging platform, Movable Type. During this time the site may do some pretty wacky and odd stuff as we get our plugins, themes and general code working...
June 18, 2007
While analyzing the stats for Technology Evangelist the other day, I came across this interesting graph reporting the average number of page views per visitor by month: It very common for a blog's page views per visitor to hover somewhere...
January 18, 2007
When we first started Technology Evangelist a little over a year ago we knew we wanted to get into video blogging so we chose a platform that had a pretty good architecture for it: Movable Type. Through plugins we have...
October 2, 2006
I'm looking for a little help with this annoyance. One of the trickiest forms of comment spam to deal with as of late is what I refer to as "Tramadol Spam." This generally consists of message from an author such...
September 20, 2006
Back in March, I published a list of spam keywords we use to moderate or auto-junk comments on this blog. The list is designed to automatically trash comments using words that have nothing to do with the topic of this...
July 3, 2006
Talkr offers a service that
allows bloggers to create audio versions of their posts on the fly. While not actual
podcasts with the inflection of your own voice, they do offer an
alternative for people who'd rather listen to rather than read
what you write. Before implementing this service, test the quality of
the Talkr service to make sure suitable for your needs. Be prepared for a
somewhat robotic delivery.
April 24, 2006
You know how annoying it is when people email you links that are broken because they're too long? It isn't really your friend's fault. The problem lays with the webmaster of the site your friend is trying to tell you about. Wouldn't it be great if you could prevent that from happening when people send links from your blog to their friends? It turns out that it's a fairly simple thing to do.
March 19, 2006
I mentioned in an earlier post on How to Combat Comment Spam that keyword filtering has been the most effective strategy for combating comment spam used on this blog so far. Since that post went live, the site has seen an uptick in search engine referrals from people looking for a good keyword list to use in their own blogs.
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