PCWorld.com – Web Content Labels Move Closer to Reality
Oh yes this is a good idea, let third parties tell me which sites I shouldn’t go to and have them blocked? Or better yet, play along with us and get your labels or your site will automatically get blocked? Great, more work for web designers!
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Apparently, Ask.com got Merchant Circle to agree to take over the operations of Bloglines. Maybe they will actually invest in it and create a god Google Reader alternative. Then again, I have no idea how Bloglines fits with what Merchant Circle does now, so we’ll see if this is a good thing for Bloglines users…
You know you’re dealing with a lazy blog comment spammer when they don’t even bother to choose which message to use from the list they got somewhere, or which word variations to include in the message. Found in the spam filter today (And this is only a portion of the comment): {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing}…
I’ve been at this blog for almost 19 years. Are you sure it’s still me writing these posts? Did I disappear and just leave it on autopilot to write posts for me long after I’m gone?
Are you sure you would know if I did?
Not everything is as it appears. We could all use a lot more skepticism, especially on topics we are already biased to believe.
If you’re interested in keeping up with new posts here, and potentially a few other things that I have in mind, I’m adding a new email subscription service though Mailchimp. [mc4wp_form] Of course, you could also follow the blog on Twitter or Facebook as well, if that’s your thing. (Or both since I usually don’t…
A couple of fellow Friends in Tech members, and the hosts of Technorama, Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe, informed me the other day that the new version of their book about learning WordPress, Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes is now available. For those of you looking to get started with WordPress, or…
If you use this plugin, or really any plugin, keep ’em up to date! “Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability that allows them to execute commands and malicious scripts on Websites running File Manager, a WordPress plugin with more than 700,000 active installations, researchers said on Tuesday. Word of the attacks came a few hours…