There’s been a whole lot of talk this weekend about TypeKey. You can follow some of it by going here and following all the links. TypeKey is the new service being built into Movable Type 3.0 that will allow you to use a central registration server and only allow comments by folks who have registered…
Jeremy posted today about someone calling him a “whiz kid” and how, at 24, he doesn’t really feel like a kid. Here’s the thing, without knowing much about the person who said it, it’s hard to tell where the idea comes from. In my office I’m seen by some as a “whiz kid” because I’m…
Scoble’s got a link and some of his own comments on Orkut. I pretty much agree, I didn’t find myself going over there much after the first few days. There simply wasn’t enough to hold my interest, even in the communities, which is maybe the best part of Orkut. The problem there is that those…
Thanks to a tip from Sikko2Go (an interesting monicker, to be sure.), I was able to get the comments emailed again. For those of you keeping score at home the relevant changes are: Change “CDONTS.NewEmail” to “CDO.MESSAGE” Change “mail.Body=MailBody” to “mail.htmlBody=MailBody” Take out the next line “mail.importance=1”. – I’m not sure if there’s something you…
Over the next couple of days this site is going to be moving to a different server. I know of one thing that will break, but nothing that you all will notice. (The feature that emails the comments to me uses CDONTS, which is not available in Windows 2003. That won’t work until I figure…
Andy, in the comments on those Postini posts I made late last week, asked about false negatives, email that got blocked as spam but really wasn’t. I told him that since I don’t use my email account to get newsletters or other “bulk” type emails, my account may not be the best measurement of how…