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Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Slevi — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:20:51 -0000

Myself I'm simply using first-comment moderation, have been doing it ever since I began with the blog. I haven't really noticed an increase though after I began using the dofollow plugin, but it hasn't been long ago though. My main sources of spam are 2 entries dating quite some time back though which on a daily basis keep being bombarded, Akismet fishes most out but a couple still end up in moderation. Currently each of them is getting about 40 spam comments a day directed at them already and still rising.

Anyways, the first-comment moderation works great to simply fish out the spam. A minor wait for people which never commented before, but once they did they can just keep on commenting without any waiting.

Re: Are You A Fake Dofollow Blogger?

Slevi — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:05:26 -0000

Have been seeing more and more blogs actually join the dofollow thing lately, guess I should be doing so as well one day even though I don't get too many comments. Since I'm currently in the process of kicking in a nice little new look to my blog I'll go through the list of plugins along and be sure to add dofollow!

Re: Are You A Fake Dofollow Blogger?

Slevi — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:05:26 -0000

Re: Why You Should Always FORGET Passwords

Slevi — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:00:15 -0000

I must say that even if I don't have 2000 passwords being used which personally I'd just see as way too extreme, I do go around with about 20 different passwords which tend to be unique username combinations to them as well and I've never actually needed any storage program to remember them.

Better yet, no matter how hard I try birthdates, phonenumbers, letter strings, etcetera are simply figures which after I have used them for a couple of times just don't forget.

My first mobile phone number in example which is from 9 years ago by now, I still remember it clearly. My high school student number, no hard time recalling that either. The randomly generated keystring I got with my school mail account, it's there alright. Birthdates of friends and family? I'm like a walking calendar.

Personally I would actually try not to rely too much on programs to store passwords, birthdates, etcetera. Although your brain might not be 100% failsafe at all times, especially when you age, to keep using it effectively is a way though to train it well. So by starting to store all your info into programs you're not really doing your memory that much of a favor at all since it's being reduced in how much it's used.

Calendars, organizers, password storing, etcetera should simply function as a failsafe, not replace your brain.

Re: Why You Should Always FORGET Passwords

Slevi — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:00:15 -0000

Re: Iphone – Lost $200? Learn from Steve Jobs and Mike Filsaime

Slevi — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:17:55 -0000

In my opinion apple is absolutely ridiculous for giving money back like this since it was no surprise that the price would drop sooner or later anyways. It sucks, but it's just the way how it works in the IT section. When I bought my iPod in example it was 2 days afterwards when Apple announced they'd be pumping them up to 80GB, did it really bother me? No, it's simply the way it goes.

Look at any purchase you made and everything drops at some point, if you're not really wanting to pay the extra money to begin with then simply wait for the price drop as well, don't go asking for the difference in money back or complain about it.

Re: Iphone – Lost $200? Learn from Steve Jobs and Mike Filsaime

Slevi — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:17:55 -0000

Re: Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

Slevi — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:15:27 -0000

An interesting analysis, of course it's to question how close it is the truth it might be worth to go by and see what sort of effect it gives.

Re: Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

Slevi — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:15:27 -0000

An interesting analysis, of course it's to question how close it is the truth it might be worth to go by and see what sort of effect it gives.

Re: IzeaRanks & RealRank – How Many Lies Can You Tell Your Advertisers?

Slevi — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:14:19 -0000

In the end it doesn't matter in my opinion on how many different features there'll be for advertisers to look at when it comes to how much traffic a site might be receiving, it's all pretty much useless data anyways.

The entire idea of izearanks in example is nice, but in the end with autobrowsers and such the entire idea can be put to waste again as well since those might easily add up (unique) pageviews to the blogs just to get ranked higher.

You'll get additions added against the usage of such systems in their ToS and suddenly things like blogmad and whatever more traffic exchanger systems quite a lot of people still use can't be used anymore.

Gets rid of some of the competition though in the ranks, but on the other hand it's just one of the potential issues with a system like realrank. In return yet another ranking system will be designed, it'll be outsmarted and the circle goes around once more.

Re: IzeaRanks & RealRank – How Many Lies Can You Tell Your Advertisers?

Slevi — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:14:19 -0000

Re: Why A Blogger’s Union Won’t Fly

Slevi — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:47:38 -0000

I think for a limited amount of bloggers a union might be welcomed, although the amount of bloggers which actually makes an income to live from is just so minimal. If I'd place my guesses on any figure it would probably not come on any higher than 1/10k blogs on the net which actually makes enough money to keep yourself alive with.

The lot of the bloggers though of which I'm definitely one as well probably couldn't care less about a union, it wouldn't serve any additional purpose :).

Re: Thoughts On The New iPod Nano And Classic

Slevi — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:51:41 -0000

If you got a credit card available you can also get an iTunes account, then you have free access to letting all your cover art being updated for free. Makes things a lot easier.

The new features though sound really cool, too bad though that my iPod is still quite young with just a year old or so, not worth it yet to buy a new one :P. But a couple years from now when Apple is a couple series further again and mine dies it'll be a surprise to see which features there are available for me at that time again :).

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » No-key Keyboard Looks Cool, Is Totally Useless

Slevi — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:45:02 -0000

So much for typing blind. Although I do think that in the future regular keyboards will definitely have made room for stuff like this, a touch screen panel which can bring up a typing interface when needed but most of the things controlled through voice recognition and brain waves.

All that using of our hands to control the keyboard and mice after all are way too many calories being burned ;).

Re: What Would an Apple-Run City Look Like?

Slevi — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:00:26 -0000

Apple shouldn't let themselves be turned down now, they should design 3 very special Apple'ified parking meters which include touch screen, the nice Apple design and which will play something random from iTunes on having made a payment!

Now how could the city say no to that ;).

Re: Firefox 3 Dies a Few Times a Day

Slevi — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:30:43 -0000

Have been using FF3 since the first release candidate and so far not a single crash or stopping of browsing here.

I don't run many plugins though, StumbleUpon and SearchStatus is all of them.

It's all working like a charm and a lot faster than FF2 for me.

Re: Firefox 3 Dies a Few Times a Day

Slevi — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:30:43 -0000

Re: OMG the First Good Windows Product Soon Dead

Slevi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:15:08 -0000

That that was still even being sold, haha. For embedded devices nonetheless it's still ancient history by now. God how long it's been ago since I last touched 3.11.

Re: OMG the First Good Windows Product Soon Dead

Slevi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:15:08 -0000

That that was still even being sold, haha. For embedded devices nonetheless it's still ancient history by now. God how long it's been ago since I last touched 3.11.

Re: Pimping Firefox: The Basics (Matt Mullenweg, Garrett Camp, and More)

Slevi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:22:01 -0000

No searchstatus on the list :(, get's my vote as alexa/pr plugin, plus it has the option of highlighting no-follow links and several more functions. Works like a charm.

Re: Scott Isaacs gives the skinny behind the naming of AJAX

Slevi — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:53:22 -0000

@Farhan: It's just the thing you'll always see once something "new" has popped up, a massive flood of services trying to bring in something new, become popular and in a lot of occasions, make money out of it.

Only a very limited amount of those services which pop out actually survive. Besides that there's just a large amount of developers, whether amateur or pro's, which are thinking up new ways of using it, "creating" more possibilities.

Within several years AJAX will probably be integrated better within the web, how it will look like exactly will be hard to say right now, but I don't think that much will have changed. Just a difference in what way pages will be handled.

In the end though it'll be up to the visitor on what a page will look like, since if they don't like it most will stay away. For a lot of people the looks of a site have become just about as important, or even more important, as the content.

Re: Why Google News has no noise

Slevi — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:47:45 -0000

Noise as you call it can be a way of quickly receiving what is practically just the latest news, but on the other hand it usually is also highly inaccurate as details have yet to be revealed.

An indication that something happened which is getting people's attention but it's usually not till the actual news arrives before people really get to know what it's about.

Asides from that, don't forget that essentially most noise is just coming from the news directly, quickly mentioned by one which happened to be watching the news. It's not like it instantly came from those right at the source of things.

In case you have the time on your hands though to follow what's happening in the world by doing so on services like twitter, blogs or any other form of independent journalism on the net nothing is going to stop you. But for those with less time on their hands google news is all they need, or perhaps better to say what they can spare.

On the other hand, noise is far from a bad thing either. Not that I give anything on whether someone knows it before me or not, but simply for the fact that it creates awareness. After all, better to pick up the latest news through the noise than not picking it up at all.

Re: AJAX Resources for Beginners

Slevi — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:15:08 -0000

Nice resource :), I've recently started learning AJAX for myself and a lot of these sites are something I already came by, but it's definately nice for new people to have them listed together like this.

Re: How To Beat Wordpress Spam

Slevi — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:49:01 -0000

I use the pre-approve from old commenters technique, works out fine for me. Usually I check twice a day at least for new comments so they do show up on the blog rather quickly still, after that users are free to do what they want. Along with Akismet to hold out the general spam this has resulted in not a single spam comment actually making it to the public :).

Re: Fat Folks

Slevi — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:47:37 -0000

Although it is not completely to blaim on McDonalds, they are part of the problem. If it wasn't for companies like McDonalds to work in on our desire for fat food, if you can even still call it that, there wouldn't be that much to eat by the people to begin with.

A combination of multiple factors together is what creates obesity, but interesting is to see that with the introduction of fast food chains and snack food into countries where it wasn't present before, the amount of obese people grows just as fast.

Re: Save Time Reading Connected – Subscribe Now!

Slevi — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:56:51 -0000

Being one of those people which came here through a search engine I must say that even RSS doesn't really bring me back, mainly I won't even be adding it unless it's something to really say wow about and even then I hardly check up on it.

Just coming by other blogs every time has something to it, hopping from one to another, seeing opinions from a wide variety of people. In the end that can only be done if you skip others, so you can't really keep up with blogs on a daily basis.

But for some people RSS would actually be nice, it'll be a warning signal for when new content is available to read. RSS usually is used to only pass on a small intro to the actual post so you wouldn't be driving visitors away, they'ld still be needing to go to your site in order to view the full article if they're interested.

Another way to get viewers back to your site is commenting back on people which commented to your blog, although about probably just 10% of all comments you give back will actually return into them checking back on your site, yet again it is a couple of visitors returning. And if the numbers are just high enough, that could accumulate quite well as well.

Re: How To Get Traffic From Yahoo And Other Search Engines?

Slevi — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:13:06 -0000

Perhaps the following site might be of some help:
http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/1421/

Myself I must say that I've never really gotten the hang of Yahoo, on my blog I rarely get any visitors through yahoo as well with just 3% of all visitors, whilst on a former site of mine and another I manage now it has always been around 20%.

On my blog though, out of all little robots coming by on the other hand, Yahoos little pals are dropping in most frequently. Heck, can better say they're pretty much never leaving. So you'd say it should know about it, but guess they stuffed me somewhere totally in the back.