One of the daily rituals of owning one or more blogs is the clean up operation caused as a result of the constant bombardment by automated spamming bots. These automated posts have been clogging up the comments on my sites increasingly of late so I’ve decided to fight back and try to deflect some of the deluge.
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Annoyance of the month: yet another self-promoting WordPress link - this time, on the dashboard of WordPress 2.1.
I just spotted this mini-banner on the bottom of the WordPress admin dashboard promoting a number of alternative browsers to Internet Explorer whilst using IE7.
(Ironically, I use Safari, Camino or Firefox most of the time so it’s the first time I’ve noticed this.)
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It seems popular WordPress plugins, Ultimate Tag Warrior and WP-Cache have fallen foul of the recent update as described here, The new WordPress UTW gotcha.
I finally took the plunge and installed Internet Explorer 7 after some brief trialling on my work PC. One minor glitch I’ve come across was getting Flash Player to execute.
One source here, Corrupt Flash Player install after IE 7 upgrade, describes using an Adobe Flash Player uninstaller but I seemed to get Adobe Flash Player 9 up and running but simply using step one of their instructions: Quit all open programs.
The gloves came off a few days ago in the battle of search. Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand wrote a passionate, constructive response to some rather cheap comments (”SEO is bulls@#t”) made by Jason Calcanis (formerly of Netscape, now of Sequoia Capital).
Calcanis: “The truth is that 90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman”
A controversial, no-holds barred sounding off from a typically unabashed Calcanis - who recently addressed a room full of search professionals at SES Chicago with similar remarks - but, shown up as misguided and somewhat uninformed by Danny’s response.
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