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05.07.08

1,000th comment spam caught at Daily Iteration Internet, meta | (4)
Less than two months after moving to our new home at Webfaction and activating Akismet on the blog (previously I used Spam Karma), Akismet today reports that it has caught an astonishing 1000 comment spams. Considering this count starts on March 19th, and that the blog has very little traffic, this is quite astonishing, isn't it? According to Google Analytics, I haven't even had that same number of pageviews ever since I started tracking the blog... Where will this end? And I wonder what it's like for the very large blogs, how much spam they must surely get. Any of ...

Tagged: blogging, Internet, meta
10.26.07

Video pod, and a little personal touch meta |
Unashamedly copying from Confused of Calcutta, I have added a "vod pod", or video sidebar, to the blog. Now I will regularly post videos that I enjoy to this sidebar, adding a nice, unobtrusive personal touch to the blog without having to bother everyone being personal in the posts ;) And in fact, the first music videos I have added were taken straight from Confused of Calcutta's sidebar - Steve Howe and Dave Brubeck. I've also added two dog agility videos, a hobby which I hope to get back into in the next couple of months - maybe then I ...

Tagged: blog, meta, video