They say you don’t miss something till it’s gone, well today Bloglines is having issues, no one can login, though I see it is still retrieving feeds from my site.
I uses Netnewswire synced to bloglines so this now leaves me with nothing at all to read. I did a few searches and it seems some others are having the same feeling.
So I guess this is how it feels to have a lobotomy, now if Google were to die it would be like someone cut my head off.
It seems that the music industry is finally going after allofmp3.com.
I wonder what this means for people who bought music from them, if they will perhaps send emails to all those customers demanding they destroy the ‘illegal’ download etc?
The Register has an interview with a link spammer.
Worth checking out, I am quite happy with the moderation feature on MT and with Type Key, so can’t complain much at the moment.
Today I received spam from a Cape Town based company, they sent it via a SAIX ADSL link and I just know complaining to SAIX will not get me anywhere.
So what to do?
I think putting the email addresses here for email harvesters to get and add to plenty of spam lists will be a good revenge, so here goes:
sales@compu-teers.co.za
john@compu-teers.co.za
rory@compu-teers.co.za
Have fun.
I just completed the upgrade of my blog from MT 2.64 to 3.14. The upgrade was fairly painless except for one known problem. Sending mail notifications stopped working. There is a temp solution on the MT support forum here.
I have also now enabled TypeKey on the main blog and all non TypeKey comments will require moderation before they appear on the site.
I will have to fiddle the templates for comments a bit to give them the same look and feel as my main site, this is not something I have done for the old MT either but I suppose its a good idea.
I set up a photoblog as I mentioned previously, I will put a more detailed item about it here when I am 100% happy with it. The main thing I am not 100% happy with is the comments situation.
If I allow open comments like I do on this site I will be battling comment spam all day and this will really annoy me. The alternative is to allow open comments but to moderate them, this will be even more work or I could use TypeKey.
TypeKey is MovableType’s single signon comment authentication service, you sign up once for an account with them and once logged in you can post comments on all TypeKey enabled blogs.
From the TypeKey Website:
TypeKey helps ensure that people who comment on a site have a verified identity, keeping conversations on track and helping to prevent abusive or offensive content (comment spam) from being posted. Sites that enable TypeKey have better accountability for the content that’s being published.
As a TypeKey user, you get your own free TypeKey Profile Page, displaying only the information you choose to share. Those who are interested in finding out more about the person behind the comments on a site can visit the identity page to see what information is publicly available. You can even publish a TypeKey Profile Page while remaining completely anonymous.
It sounds all fine and well, but will forcing people to use this service prevent them from commenting on my blog? I suspect it will, I know it was my first reaction when confronted with blogs that insists on TypeKey login.
If anyone has any views on this, I’d really appreciate some comments.
