Top 10 trend in 2005 according to Fortune. No. 1 on the list is blogging :-) Read the excellent article on Fortune which has pretty good summary of what’s happened in the blogosphere last year. In a related news, Seth discovered the guy behind Think Secret (which is now been sued by Apple) is a […]
Tag: Blogging
GM Blog
Take a look at GM Fastline Blog, a brand new blog by a senior management of GM, Bob Lutz, and look at the traffic and comments on the site! (via Loic). I glance at it quickly but one comment stands out: Very impressive Product Strategy !! I think your competetion is not going to like […]
History of the Future – EPIC
Wonderful story of how Blogging is going to change the world (via Michael Everson via Email :-)
Trackback spams
Finally, comment spammers has found trackback spams. I got a dozen of them today. Well, I suppose it is obvious. Perhaps it is time for me to do something about it. I have a simple idea against it. Watch this space :-)
More casino comment spams
I got more of these casino comments spam in the last 3 hours. This time the tactic is a bit different – using a bug in my Drupal for Bloggers where I forgot to check for empty captcha to get their comment spam through. Like the last time, it comes from different IP addresses and […]
Words of the year
..is tada, “blog” (via FastCompany :-) Merriam-Webster, the dictionary folks, have put out its annual list of the 10 most popular words of the year. The list is put together from the number of online lookups at its site. And the winner is… “blog.” Yay, blog! I assume that no one reading this needed to […]
New Tactic by Comment Spammers
I received quite a lot of comment spams in the last few days. Apparently, the comment spammers seem to be engaging in a new tactic: Redirect people to random entries on my blog who then post comment spams manually. What I couldn’t figure out is how and why these people would do that…
How far will spammers go?
I woke up this morning to discover 70+ comment spams in my blog scattered all over. I was stunned thinking that my captcha has failed1 to stop their automated tools. Apparently, a guy from China (aka iacaqa@163.com) was trying to spam my blog so hard that after gotten tired of manually posting comments on my […]
Why blogging is going to kill the traditional media
…because traditional media like WSJ will never publish article like this, even though it is written by its top reporter: (via Dewayne-Net). Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest. Forget about the reasons that lured me to this job: a chance to see the world, explore the […]
Singapore Bloggers
I know I was late but better late then never. Singapore two most famous bloggers, Xiaxue and MrBrown was featured on local TV last week, on a segment calls “What’s matter”. You can find the bittorrent of the segment here (via MrBrown). Oh yea, I also feel quite shiok this morning, having done a presentation […]