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The "I Follow" Movement
11.Apr.07 | 18 Comments
Back in February, I wrote about removing the “nofollow” tags from folks who comment. Why punish folks who took the time to leave a (valid) comment?
Today, the Randa Clay Design blog released some logos to share with folks who have turned off “nofollow” and wrote an announcement article. You’ll see the logo flying over [...]
Another Tool in the Blog Anti-Spam Toolkit
18.Mar.07 | 3 Comments
Blog spam is a bummer, isn’t it? So much of it is automated and shows up as Trackbacks or Pingbacks. Without using decent tools, a blogger can easily find themself spending way too much time chasing this stuff around. That causes folks to sometimes take extreme measures like forcing commenter registration [...]
Co.mments.com problems?
20.Feb.07 | Leave a Comment
Suppose you were hooked on using co.mments.com to track comments you’ve left on blogs. (last mentioned here in March ‘06)
Suppose it seemed to be having major problems the last week or so.
What would you look at as a comparable alternative? Or would you keep the faith and hope all is well?
That nofollow Thing
15.Feb.07 | 24 Comments
As many are aware, by default WordPress adds a rel=”nofollow” to the URLs in comments. The genesis of this seems to be from a couple years ago when blog spam (I’d imagine trackback spam in particular) was getting worse and the options we have now weren’t around or as refined.
I’ve noticed some of the [...]
Blog Comment Tracking
25.Mar.06 | 5 Comments
I wrote a bit about a month ago on CoComment.com as it seems(seemed?) like a pretty neat way to keep track of where I’ve left comments. Granted, since then I’ve tripped over a wrinkle or two, but if nothing else it at least gave me a list of sites/posts to check back with.
However, it [...]
