Posted 28 October 2007, by Aaron
Even the less observant amongst us wont fail to have noticed the recent disquiet emanating from the blogosphere concerning that little green bar we all love to hate. One minute it’s down, the next it’s up, leaving many bloggers in something of a stir.
For the benefit of those oblivious, here’s a quick recap:
At the end [...]
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Posted 30 July 2007, by Aaron
This weekend I have been the victim of a wave of comment spam. In the space of 50 minutes one individual left a bout of comments. All were relevant to the topic of the posts although identifiable as spam as none of the comments were particularly deep or engaging - ie, one or two sentence [...]
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Posted 28 April 2007, by Aaron
Over the past few months I’ve witnessed a quiet movement gain momentum and transform into a full-blown revolution. I talk of course, of the DoFollow movement.
By default, WordPress adds the “rel=nofollow” command to all links in comments. In fact, most blogging software does the same thing and the intentions are good - to prevent those [...]
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Posted 16 February 2007, by Aaron
Question: What is the difference between this blog posting, and my Top 10 plugins for a WordPress newbie post?
Answer: The first post is owned by a thieving scumbag splogger.
A ’splog’, as defined by whatis.com, is “a fake blog created solely to promote affiliated Web sites, with the intent of skewing search results and artificially boosting [...]
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