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Stealing content

Posted on March 11, 2007 | Comments Off on Stealing content

Also know as plagiarism, a tough word to spell, but an easy thing to do, so easy on the Web it’s a business. The MIA at the Transplantable Rose. If you see any Texas Scribbler out there with links to porn and/or phishing trips, let me know.

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Adios, trackbacks

Posted on January 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Adios, trackbacks

I’d only managed to attract three legit trackbacks in the past seven months and was averaging thirty junk trackbacks a day, so I got rid of the spam collector. The permalinks still work, and the comments. Just keep it civil. Moron is not a non-civil word, in my book, for instance, but any configuration of the F word is, whether directed at me (god forbid) or someone else.

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Spam-a-rama

Posted on January 21, 2007 | Comments Off on Spam-a-rama

Comment and trackback and email spam is really getting out of hand. It’s becoming a fulltime job just to delete all the comment and trackback garbage I get on this site. Other bloggers have been complaining about it, too, lately, and we’re not alone.

"There are 62 billion spam messages sent every day, IronPort says, up from 31 billion last year. Now, spam accounts for three of every four e-mails sent, according to another anti-spam firm, MessageLabs. Image spam is a big part of the resurgence of unwanted e-mail. By using pictures instead of words in their messages, spammers are able to evade filters designed to detect traditional text-based ads."

Image spam I have been spared so far. Stock-promotion email spam I’m used to, also pharmaceuticals promotions in comment and trackback spam. Movable Type catches a lot of it, but some slips through. But lately I’ve been getting email spam disguised as news, with a current events subject line, and an exe attachment. It’s a chore to clear it all out.

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Site building

Posted on January 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Site building

Sometimes you have to ignore all the wrappings and ribbon and just get on with it, especially after changing your template, like Just Muttering By Myself has done:

"I upgraded my template. I’m not happy with this but at least I’m not feeling as utterly stupid as I did over the weekend. I’m almost ready to think about writing about something interesting instead of about blogging."

Now if she’ll just get Haloscan comments so I can add my two cents. I never could deal with Blogger comments. For some reason Blogger-Google won’t let me register. Annoying.

UPDATE  With a little inspiration from Just Muttering By Myself, I finally got registered at Blogger-Google, so I can use their comments now. Created a TexasScribblerBackup there, to facilitate the comments usage elsewhere, but don’t expect to be using it. Unless MT craters.

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Blog links

Posted on December 6, 2006 | Comments Off on Blog links

Now that three (or more?) blogs have me in their blogrolls, according to Technorati, I want to list them and recommend them to y’all as interesting places to visit because the proprietors are able writers with interesting turns of mind.

Top of the list, because he was the first, is Simply Jews, an Israeli satirist who goes by the nom de plume of Snoopy the Goon. His pose as an Elder of Zion, a director of the alleged Jewish conspiracy to rule the world, is pretty funny, if you like that sort of thing as I do. Next up is another satirist who uses a nom de blog, New Yorker Akaky Bashmachkin, at The Passing Parade. If his name doesn’t immediately remind you of something literary, do a Google on it. And, most recently, there is Deborah, of The Thought Mill, a Russian feminist with a Western view of life.

Among others who have linked to posts of mine, at one time or another, are the venerable Instapundit, Navy veteran Crazy Politico’s Rantings, the graphics-crazy Good Richard’s Alamanc, and Murky View, a Canadian blogger who recently decided (on the strength of one post at Instapundit) that I am "disconnected from reality." Given the opportunity, I would dispute that, of course. All are worth your time. 

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Instaflop

Posted on December 5, 2006 | Comments Off on Instaflop

Getting linked by Instapundit is supposed to be the sine qua non of free blogger publicity, producing a fabled Instalanche (Insta plus avalanche) of hundreds if not thousands of new unique visits. So imagine my surprise when my first such link, at about 5:45 a.m. today had, by just a few minutes ago, failed to produce one fifth of one hundred. Yep. Only fifteen, according to Sitemeter. There could be a few more which, for some reason unknown to me, failed to get listed as referrals by Sitemeter. After all, I did collect thirty-eight visits altogether, which is almost four times my normal daily average. But most of them came from people clicking on comments I had left on other blogs in the past few days, or the six three blogs which blogroll me, or referrals from Google searches on various subjects. Fourteen were counted as unknown referrals, a few of them daily constant readers plus some others checking in weekly, or whatever. Not that I am not grateful to be linked by Professor Reynolds (I am, I am), just puzzled at how far off the predicted result has been. Maybe it will improve overnight. I can’t stick around to find out, as must arise early to get Mr. Boy to school. Mom, who usually takes him mornings, is away, traveling on business.

UPDATE  And the overnight total? Wait for it. Two. 

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What is this thing called Web?

Posted on November 3, 2006 | Comments Off on What is this thing called Web?

Improve it or be sorry, says Web’s developer, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

"He also said employers were now beginning to complain that there were not enough people who fully understood the web. ‘There aren’t any courses at the moment and it hasn’t really been brought together. We’re hearing complaints from companies when they need people that really understand the medium from both the technological and social side.’"

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