Blogging
Like most bloggers of any note, I get regular e-mails asking me to publish guest posts, or text links. I understand the SEO reasons for this, but always decline – politely to the well-thought through ones, and through deletion to the ones where my name, my blog name and a recent
backlinks
There’s a really great and interesting interview with Matt Cutts, who heads Google’s web spam team [http://www.stonetemple.com/matt-cutts-and-eric-talk-about-what-makes-a-quality-site/] , on the Stone Temple Consulting site. The whole thing is worth a read, but the discussion of infographics is particularly of note: > In principle, there’s
[](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/02/Screen-Shot-2012-02-07-at-15.20.21.png) Boy, are you in trouble.
blog platforms
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/02/5431669378_04a5a4bf09_o_2.jpg] It’s the end of a long working week, one that has been dominated by behavioural problems masquerading as technical ones. We’ve had a number of very intense spam attacks on our blog
Automattic
John Gruber mused [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack] : > I have to wonder when WordPress users will start switching to some other platform. There’s a reason it’s not happening. They can’t. There are no good alternatives for a less technical user who wants to
Blogging
Good Lord, nearly 6.20pm and I still haven’t done a decent post today. And I was so sure it was going to be a quiet day today. Never mind, here are some hit and run things that caught my attention today: * Marc Andreessen is writing about the history
search pollution
Talking of technology woes, I’m rather irritated that this fellow has “fave”d me on Technorati: A spammer? Oh, I think so. I sent the Technorati folks a message about it a few days ago, but nothing has been done yet…
anonymity
Google is starting to smack down spam, but it’s still an issue – affiliate links.Calacanis had some suggestions for the attendees about how to manage this: - Build curation into your service. - Police your service - Reduce anonymity without reducing freedom - Punish bad peopleUsers have to “own
humour
As spam headlines go “Never Clean Your Toilet Bowl Again” is probably the worst I’ve yet encountered. While I know what they’re trying to say, the immediate image conjured up is, well, horrible.
spam
The BBC reports on the best ways to dodge an in-box full of spam [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2969783.stm]: > US researchers at the Center for Democracy and Technology set out to answer this question in the summer of 2002. They found that e-mail addresses
