Time for a new approach for Internet Babel.
Look across the ‘mid-range’ MMO/IM Bloggers (and even the ‘top’ Bloggers, as I’ve mentioned before) and you see a lot of the same stuff - the latest affiliate schemes, our ’success’ stories, competitions, so-called ‘black-hat’ rubbish and paid reviews.
IB has been as guilty of that in the past as anyone,and [...]

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OK - here’s an idea to throw out to the masses, and something I reckon could take off quite nicely as a widget or whatever.
Could somebody please write a Spam analyzer (’spamalyzer’/’spamalytics’ etc).
I think a little league table of hot spam topics might be a cool little tool. It should be easy enough to write [...]

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As you can see from my sidebar, we’ve just gone over 11,000 spam comments blocked by Aksimet (as at 20th August 2008).
I’m not sure how long Nick was running Akismet etc before I took over Internet Babel, but I’ve just read about somebody hitting the million-spams milestone on their blog. I personally block quite a few [...]

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Introducing Prologue. This is Matt Mullenweg’s answer to a Twitter alternative. Of course Matt had some help, that’s where the clever software developers of Automattic come in.
Twitter is a self-confessed inspiration for this new semi-platform. It’s really just another WordPress installation with a new undertone.
Here’s a screenshot of Prologue:

If you click on that screenshot, you’ll [...]

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Getting hacked could happen to anyone. No matter how savvy you think you are or how good you are at avoiding things, unless you actually use decent security to stop hackers getting into your WordPress database, you could be next.
You’ve seen it happen to Shoemoney. Twice.
There are some very simple steps you can take to [...]

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For the rest of this weekend I’ll be posting purely on WordPress. I say it ‘begins’ as in now but realistically it began with my last post - WordPress Users: Backup Your Blog.
I just decided to make it into a little event since I have some more posts to come on it.
That’s anything from cool [...]

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Today was the first time I’ve actually ever backed up this blog.
Backing up your blog should be done on a monthly basis, just incase anything unexpected happens to your database.
Most issues can usually be fixed anyway but imagine something drastic happened and you lost all of your posts.
All those hard written articles… gone!
I’m lazy when [...]

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