Hal at Harvard Weblogs kindly set my default setting for comments and pings to “off.” Daryl (see PS to previous entry) was correct when he advised me that the spam flood was coming through trackbacks (pings), hence turning trackback off for the whole blog solved the problem. You’ll note that this entry and the previous […]
I thought I had loosened restrictions on comments, but after going into the admin pages more deeply I saw that I still had the restrictions that I set up some days ago — that you have to be logged on to comment. Now, what’s weird is that in all this time, the spammers have been […]
After reading several additional blog entries (notably Ken Camp and Shelley Powers) about why or why not people may or may not be upset by flickr’s switch to yahoo-only accounts, I want to explain why I’m upset. I don’t care that it’s yahoo — never had an account with them, don’t care. I’m not anti-big […]
That’s it. I’m definitely dropping my flickr account. Like so many others, I received flickr’s “dear old skool members” email the other day, and after looking at yahoo’s sign-up requirements (birthdate, gender, full name, postal/zip code, address, etc.), I thought, “how about I bend over for you while I’m at it?” The flickr brand is […]
I haven’t entirely figured out why I’m reading a marketing blog, but IF! is a really good one, full of weird and wonderful links. Today, it pointed to Ross Dawson’s blog, who published the Trend Blend 2007+ (PDF!) map on December 18/06. I love visual stuff like this, and just spent half an hour redrawing […]
I decided to renew my “paid” account at flickr again. Now all my old photos are back, and I uploaded some new ones. It was geotagging that snared me in again…! And flickr is really useful for some new projects I’m working on… But I’m still “badge-challenged.” Hence just a little truncated version: www.flickr.com Yule’s […]
Lost? I just logged on to my writely account, and found that the vast majority of my documents are gone… Very disappointing. It seems the service had some kind of massive consolidation / switch-over with email addresses, and in the process managed to lose lots of data. At least that’s what it looks like from […]