Tag: WordPress
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After “comment spam”, comes “like spam”
Maybe if I had a blog that was visited by tens of thousands every day and on which hundreds wanted to comment it would not be so easy, but “comment spam” is not a problem here – anything which the algorithmic spam filter does not pick up can be chucked out by hand. But in…
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New blog theme
I had been using the old one for a while now, so thought I should give something new a try – I quite like this theme – called “Oxygen” – though some parts of it are still a mystery to me: some posts have images displayed and some do not and I really do not…
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Sticking with wordpress.com
Thanks to Slashdot and a couple of other places, this last week has seen the blog visited by close to 60,000 browsers – an impressive figure in anyone’s book. But almost all (about 50,000) of that was compressed into last weekend and at the peak there were perhaps 150 new visitors each minute. Now, I…
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Leaving wordpress.com?
I first had a blog when they were still called “web logs” (yes, kids, that’s where it comes from) – I never thought it would take off, though I also thought it was one of those ideas (like intranets – remember them?) that were so beautifully simple that I wish I had thought of it.…
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The slashdot experience
Last night I submitted a story on this blog – about P=NP – to Slashdot and today the submission was accepted and in a few hours I have had perhaps five times more visitors than in the previous two and a half months. But, thanks to WordPress.com there was no “slashdotting” – instead the site…
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