I’ve been using Ecto as my blogging tool for some time now, but the current MacHeist bundle included MacJournal so I’m giving it a shot. One feature I really like in any blogging tool is the ability to paste in an image and have it be included without having to save somewhere on disk first. [...]
The Turing Test is supposed to be a way to distinguish a machine from human intelligence. When I say spam is passing the turing test, I mean it’s difficult or impossible for me to tell, from looking at some of the spam that I get, whether it’s a human that typed in a comment on [...]
I use Google Blog Search to search for the name of the product I work on – LiveCycle Designer – and then subscribed to the search feed using Google Reader. This takes any blog mention of LiveCycle Designer and adds it to my Google Reader feed. I get real traffic of folks talking about Designer, [...]
I often post something, and then a little while later, add some updated information. Other bloggers do this as well, it’s a common occurrence. But I’ve noticed that with Google Reader, some readers never see these updates. Google pulls the RSS feed as a result of a ping being sent when the post is created, [...]
It annoys me that stories are being written for Digg. There are sites that tell you how to write your articles for Digg, including such gems as Make A List and Make up outrageous statistics. I’ve commented on the list aspect before. I’m breaking (or, I guess, following) rule #2 now: Write about Digg. But it [...]
Here’s how bad spam has gotten: My host, DreamHost, sent me an email saying they’d disabled comment posting on my blog, because it was getting hammered. I checked and boy were they right - I had over 2000 messages in the moderation queue, most of it from yesterday. I was going to add CAPTCHA to comment posting, [...]
So here are my thoughts on PayPerPost. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a new service dedicated to blog advertising. That link right there? I’ll get paid for putting it on my blog, because it’s an “opportunity” that the site lists. Bloggers can scan available opportunities and pick ones that they want to write [...]
I want to do a visual refresh of my blog. It’s too monochrome, and just not interesting looking. Problem is, even though I work for Adobe and have access to the best tools on the planet, I’m just not a very good visual designer. But I’m going to try. I want to keep the same [...]
I just gave the Long Tail site a bit of a facelift.. I’m getting better with CSS now, to the point where I can usually get the effect I want with CSS rather than using tables and old style font tags for everything. It’s still ugly, mind you, but that’s more because I’m a crummy [...]
Every half hour, a bot at Bloglines (Bloglines/3.0-rho) requests my feed from it’s old location, gets told the new location via a 301 redirect, and probably doesn’t follow it. This means readers who subscribed to my old blog via Bloglines (all 21 of you) just aren’t seeing anything I write anymore. (No big loss ) [...]