Although I’m about 13 hours late, Pacific time, I’ve turned off all spam filters, including Akismet and Bad Behavior, in an attempt to see just how much spam filtering plugins help. I’ve also disabled DoFollow, for obvious reasons.
There’s more information on the announcement post on the blog that started this day, justaddwater.dk.
Brace for impact, people.
Why does Peter Ha write for CrunchGear? Or, a more accurately phrased: why does he still write for CrunchGear?
TechCrunch, the massively popular blog about all things web 2.0, posted a recap about the week on CrunchGear. Here’s the part which kind of perturbed me a bit:
[…] our own Peter Ha alleged that the PS3 “stinks,” , and also that Leopard should die, causing an influx of fanboys to leave their folky brand of wisdom …
As stumbled upon through the Akismet blog, Jesper Rønn-Jensen is planning to completely disable his spam filters on December 15. While that may sound a bit crazy, it’s an interesting experiment to see just how much time tools such as Akismet saves you every day.
So, on December 15, which is thankfully a Saturday, I’ll be turning off all spam filters on my blog, namely Akismet and Bad Behavior. As the article also suggests, I’ll also …
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of immense amounts of idiocy. If you haven’t been around the tubes for the past few days, here’s a recap:
Someone posing as “malcor” (blog since removed) claimed to have hacked Glenn Wolsey, a reasonably prominent Mac blogger, and replaced his site with a page linking to the Malcor blog, with a picture of a rotton apple with a worm crawling through it. Next, MacApper was posted on …
I’m going to take a leaf out of the Book of Gruber.
Mark Cuban is the Jackass of the Week.
Ars Technica has everything I would say in response to this article so I’m not going to go over it again.
Mr. Cuban, I would do some research. Not all Bittorrent traffic is warez. And it shouldn’t be so hard for Comcast to keep bandwidth up — not to mention the US is pretty far behind in terms …
Now that I’m browsing without Adblock, I’ve noticed the ads that Last.fm sprinkles on its pages, and I thought of something:
What if the ads were targeted specifically for your music tastes?
It probably wouldn’t be too hard — Last.fm already taps into its database of your music taste to calibrate the “Taste-o-Meter” comparing your “musical compatibility” with your friends. So why wouldn’t it be a reasonably simple task to pick from different genres of ads and …
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