New Blog Spammer Trick?

I’ve noticed something new with comments on this blog recently. It is a little bit sneaker than the normal approach,

See, typically most spammers want to get their links on your blog, and they’ll certainly be sure to use the commenter’s URL field as target #1:

The link there gets linked to their name. Free PR juice.

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Windows Live Writer Technical Preview – Loving It

Earlier this week a “Technical Preview” version of Windows Live Writer was announced. I’ve been using it for the posts I’ve made since grabbing it and absolutely love it.

My favorite new feature has to be the new tabbed layout – there are now Edit, Preview and Source tabs along the bottom of the main editing

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Welcome Nikki and Dave to Blogging

Coworker and friend Nikki has just launched her first blog with an insightful introductory post. Nikki is the Marketing Director where I work and has been quite involved with this next blog too.

Owner and CEO Dave has been writing for our new corporate blog, “Efficient Forums.” Read one of his posts and tell me if

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Popular Posts

I’ve almost always had a listing of “popular posts” in my blog’s sidebar. Yet, I think the search engines have driven 99.99% of the traffic to those same posts, not that list.

Seems like it’s just wasted space.

Do people ever actually click through popular posts links — here or on other blogs?

Today’s Stumper – DNS

Our domain at work is handled by Network Solutions (yeah yeah, I know, don’t start with me. I inherited them!) We also use netsol’s name servers for all our DNS management.

So, I have entries like:

Host
Record Type
Value

@
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd

www
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd

secure
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd

demo
A
aa.bbb.ccc.dd

vpn
A
a.b.c.d

 
MX
aspmx.l.google.com

cal.domain.com
CNAME
ghs.google.com

mail.domain.com
CNAME
ghs.google.com

 
 
 

(the a.b.c.d groupings just represent various “real” IP addresses of my servers. You can see from the MX and CNAME

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