On Blogging
CalGal -- Sunday, January 11, 2004 -- 03:10:55 PMArticles, media coverage, etc.
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Google Blog Search
From the About Google Blog Search link:
The goal of Blog Search is to include every blog that publishes a site feed (either RSS or Atom). It is not restricted to Blogger blogs, or blogs from any other service.
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You can use Blog Search to find either specific posts or entire blogs. The main search results always return links to posts. However, when there are entire blogs that seem to be a good match for your query, these will appear in a short list just above the main search results.
Blog search found my blog which cannot be found by regular googling. For what that's worth.
Is that the same as Feedster?
Mine too, Janey.
Reporters Without Borders has prepared a handout for bloggers and cyber-dissidents out.
Is anyone else getting spam comments posted? I've been getting a few of these/week lately. They've been different, but all have about the same general content:
Nice Blog!!! It looks like you've spent a fair amount of time setting it up and keeping the content fresh. I'll be sure to come back.I have a online dating blog. It pretty much covers gay dating related stuff.Thanks again and keep up the good work.
The first few "noticed my posts about DNA testing" and directed me to some DNA testing company (e.g., for like paternity testing). The last ones have just been weird.
[Edit] The post above links to: http://free-online-dating-blog.blogspot.com/
[Edit] And I just looked it up. I guess the intent is to get your site "linked" on as many sites as possible so Google will rank it high.
[Edit] Bastards are nailing me like 10 times today, too.
The people at Blogger noticed this too and they've set up a thing where you can enable comment verification. This is like when you sign up for a free email. You have to type the letter/number sequence that shows up in a graphic. It's sort of a pain, but I've noticed hasn't reduced my very small number of comments.
I got a few really long ones about stock prices and giving money to people whose parents died in Nigeria, etc.
Hey, how do I delete comments on blogger? I can't find it in the help files.
I have gotten spam comments on both of my blogs.
I use Haloscan for comments (Blogger didn't provide them when I started) and I don't know what they do, but I get essentially zero comment spam.
Of course, some day I really am going to switch over to Wordpress and then I'll probably do what Lime does. The thing with the letter/number things is, some of them are really hard! I got flagged as a spammer when I was trying to comment on a friend's livejournal because I just couldn't read the stupid letters. And I don't get that - the ones Lime has are quite clear, and that works fine at preventing spam. I guess maybe big sites are more likely to be targeted by spammers who actually have text-recognition software?
I think it is just the software they have and LiveJournal happens to have particularly awful software. I always have to try it multiple times before I guess what the letters are correctly. Lime's is much easier.
My personal blog hasn't gotten hit, but the professional organization I work with has a blog that got spammed. The poor ED didn't know what had happened and approved at least one of the comments since it looked sort of legitimate, if weird.
Interesting. I'm using WordPress for my blog now and when I linked back to an old piece I wrote in July it automatically linked my new piece as a comment.
Which I guess is a trackback, but I didn't know that it would occur passively and to the same blog.
Heh. Hewitt-a-lanche?
I'm getting really close to having my own blog up and running on my own software (which is really V3 of the forum software, but now it's called citrusPress).
The next step, then, will be to add in all of the UI for the configuration of the pages, (because everything's configurable in the new version, but not through a pretty and informative UI) and then it might actually be ready to release into the wild.
I am working with a blog running Moveable Type. We want to do verification of comments, in order to turn off the need for comment approval. Where do we find the best verification code? Is it hard to install?
Pajamas Media: "We is Fact-Checked!"
They're moving to implement the "layers of fact-checking and editorial control" that so many bloggers, even bloggers now part of PJM, have long derided. I thought one of the inherent benefits of the blogosphere was that the facts kind of sorted themselves out. Would it not be cute for them to become the very thing they despise?
I don't see that phrase in the piece, despite your quote marks. The word "control"--particularly "editorial control"--doesn't appear at all.
As for fact-checking:
So how does this undermine the previous claim that the blogosphere was self-correcting?
Well, it seems a tad contradictory.
But I agree with Jeff Jarvis about Pajamas Media--it's definitely morphed. There's a guy out there who was involved in the original effort that Simon cut and dumped who has been rather spookily effective at highlighting how much of a fraud this thing is. The Luke Ford bit, the New York office, and so on.
Say, what's the proper procedure for dealing with emails from blog readers? If one gets an email to the address listed on the blog (e.g., archaeolblog@whatzit.com) is it kosher to post emails one receives on said blog without actually getting permission from the sender? Seems to me that's sort of implied consent, sending to a blog address.
A lot of blogs post disclaimers near their email addresses, saying basically "anything you email me is fair game."
The day after the election, a guy who blogs for houston metblogs sent me an email and said that he borrowed one of my graphics (I'd made it from a Daily Show clip) and had linked back to my blog in his post, and told me to "enjoy the extra traffic".
Today, I checked my stats report, and found that out of 16k+ requests this month, 6 of them came from the metblogs link.
But you can ask Milky what she was wearing when the email was sent.
I already know that. But, you know, I'm much too much of a gentleman to discuss such things in public.
I'll tell ya though, she shore knows how to show off them giganto feet of hers. . . . .
Has anyone else seen this tug of war between Bitch PhD and a blogger from Purdue who has a blog called Info Theory?
Oops, here's the link to the tug of war recounted on Inside Higher Ed.