I was having a private discussion with Rojisan in #joiito who suggested to extend the mt-bayesian plugin to become an immunity system for the blogsphere when we got sidetracked. One of the reasons we have blog spammers is because they want to get more links to their site and therefore higher Googlerank for their site. […]
Category: Blogging
Christmas spammer
Merry Christmas! I have a lovely present this christmas: A blog spammer. :-) As I have a captcha plugin, the poor guy have been entering comment manually using innocent looking comment (e.g. “Yes, this is a good page”). Unfortunate for him, I trained my blog engine (using mt-bayesian) to identify his spam in the morning […]
DABL – PonG
I haven’t been blogging because I have been spending almost all my free time working on a Distributed Address Book List (DABL) which I called PonG. (Download) PonG is a tool which allows you and your friends to keep up-to-date (contact) information of each another. PonG package includes a PonG server and a PonG client. […]
Problem with blacklist
Jay Allen, the author of MT-blacklist, commented in a discussion at Q Daily News: While I will agree that many blacklist implementations and models are flawed, I still haven’t heard an valid criticism specifically of MT-Blacklist’s implementation (other than a couple of bugs which will be ironed out in the next version), but would be […]
Bayesian filter for MT
Update: Michah Valine has taken over the maintenance of MT-Bayesian Update: Please read the problems with MT-Bayesian. Many people have complained about my “Solution for comments spams” is unfriendly to disabled or those who do not have a graphic browser. Hearing your feedbacks, I spent the last 2 days working on a bayesian plugin. To […]
Solution for comments spams
Update 4th Feb 2005: Looking for a solution to deal with Trackback spams? Take a look at my TrackbackAntiSpam? Apparently, there are some automated bots which has been spamming comments on movabletype blogs. While it is easy to ban the IP and remove the posts, it takes a lot of time and effort to play […]
Dyson on the world of blogging
Here is a rant from Esther Dyson, the editor of Release1.0 on Goggle of Blogging, Technorati. Although the premise of the blog world is decentralized, bottom-up, user-centered content, the value of Technorati-like services is in clustering: helping users to find like-minded people, or unlike-minded people with similar interests. (Incidently, a little bird told me in […]
blogging with w.blogger
Trying out w.blogger. This blog entry is updated via w.blogger…I wonder if the the autotrack back works…Hmm…
Hacking MT
Just did a quick hack on Movable Type engine so that it will use Trackback mechanism to do publicity instead of XMLRPC-ping.