Category Archives: Blogging and Web Design

AuthImage

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AuthImage is a WordPress plugin which will require a potential commentator to enter a security code (shown in graphics) before submitting the comment. It should be able to stop those spambots to flood your blog.

Unfortunate for me (and those who like to try the most updated version of every software), AuthImage seems not to be able to work in WordPress 1.5 beta. I guess I have to wait till some instructions come up (or learn PHP myself to solve the problem). If you are still using WordPress 1.2.2, go ahead with AuthImage and stop those spammers.

Comment Spam

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Comment Spam is the most damaging ememy to blogs. But anti-spamming software / plug-ins can also annoying. I have just started to use Spam Karma (installed by using WordPress Plugins Manager). It is effective against spams, but perhaps too effective. It deleted comments made by real bloggers (in the recent case, Van Koyuki who made a comment about my new theme). I now turned off some options, and hope that Van can make comments here in the future. Otherwise, I may have to fall back to use another plug-in WP-Blacklist (which is available through the said plugin manager).

By the way, Van, if you read this, your blog is blacklisted by a realtime blackist server sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.

Reference:
Comment Spam Manifesto by Adam Kalsey
Tackling Comment Spam

主題 Blog

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網上有很多單一主題的 Blog，最常見是以科技為題，著名的當然要數 Slashdot，其次以書評為主的也不少 ( 例如 The Book Review Blog 和 Blog 攬群書 )。最近網友 Jansen 開始了一個新 Blog 叫 11 vs 11，有可能是全港唯一有關足球的 Blog。

這類主題 Blog 看起來好像很容易辦：首先題材專門，能夠專注地寫文章；其次目標讀者也可能是這方面的專家，交流的通訊很豐富 ( 不像我這些個人 Blog，十篇也未必有一點回應 )。但若果在某時期關於那專題沒甚麼新聞，主題 Blog 就會靜下來，讀者也會流失。我發起的 Xbox Live 遊戲 Blog 就遇到這困境，全因為這一兩個月沒有值得寫的遊戲推出 ( 難以置信現在是暑假 )。