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Internet Culture Explained
And finally: [via [Andy](http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/07/24/the-muppets-explain-web-video/)]
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akismet
Aksimet: Too Enthusiastic in Spamming Comments?
Darren of Problogger finally articulates something that has been bothering me for a while: [Aksimet](http://akismet.com), Automattic’s comment spam filtering system, seems to be [throwing up a lot of false positives](http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/05/27/my-love-hate-relationship-with-akismet/) of late.I’ve been using Akismet
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Why TV Doesn't Know How To Engage
Those naughty folks at Computer Weekly‘s Downtime blog [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/IT-downtime-blog/2008/03/comments-we-love-them-what-do.html] are taking the mickey out of one of my colleagues [http://engagement101.blogspot.com/2008/03/ribbed-for-their-pleasure.html] with this video: Now, I reckon that that they’re missing the point
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Making Comments into a Community
Techcrunch UK highlights some emerging companies that are attempting to build blog comments into something more of a community feature [http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/suddenly-blog-comments-is-a-hot-space/]. Six Apart are working on a community solution for Movable Type [http://www.movabletype.com/products/community-solution.html]. There’s something interesting
Blogging
Comments Closed: A First
Today marked a first for our blogging effort here at the brown towers. [We decided to close comments on a post](http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/childrens-services/2007/09/the-dail-mail-and-its-lies-abo.html). The nine days since that post went up have been something of an eye-opener for me. For one
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Is the Daily Mail faking comments?
Charles Arthur makes a compelling case that the Daily Mail is faking positive comments [http://www.charlesarthur.com/blog/?p=930] on its website. Now, I’ve seen members of RBI staff leave comments on our blogs without making explicit who they are, but this level of sock-puppetry [http://en.
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Go on, Leave a Comment
I’ve just unleashed (ooh, dramatic word) the full community power of Movable Type 4, for the benefit of both my readers. You can now comment here using your Typekey [http://www.sixapart.com/typekey/], Vox [http://www.vox.com/], Livejournal [http://www.livejournal.com/] or other OpenID [http://openid.
Atom
Two Thoughts on RSS
1. We really need some way to incorporate comments directly into the RSS feed (and no, doing it separately WordPress-style doesn’t cut it). 2. If you have a large number of RSS feeds in your aggregator, they really need to be tended like a garden. The dead wood and
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MT4 Thoughts: Commenting
First thing that I’ve discovered in Movable Type 4 that makes me really, really happy: comment registration. You can actually sign up to be a registered commenter on any MT blog natively under version 4 – and those user accounts can be upgraded to poster rights later, if you should
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links for 2007-04-07
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Blogs
Microsoft goes OpenID
Computerworld: Microsoft pledges support for OpenID [http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;663927132;fp;2;fpid;1]” > Microsoft has thrown its weight behind OpenID, an emerging Web authentication standard. The announcement was made Tuesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco during a joint keynote by Microsoft
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OpenID, Comments and Unfriendly Hosts
If all has gone according to plan, you can now sign into this blog to comment using OpenID. That means you can use your Vox blog address, Livejournal username or any other OpenID [http://openid.net/] service to identify yourself to my blogging software. This is very exciting to the