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OR EMAILLink Sharing 10/4/07, September Summary
This past month, the top commentators were:
- Dave (Mr. Fanpop)
- Ross (Mr. Simplehelp)
- Urbanist (Mr. Web Urbanist)
- Steven Hodson (Mr. WinExtra)
- Engtech (Mr. Internet Duct Tape)
Spam increased to an absolutely annoying level. Seems like more are leaking through Akismet, or I’ve wound up on someone’s not-so-nice list.
Traffic slightly was up a bit from September - closing in on 40K uniques. Although, I’m thinking a large portion of it is spammers.
I upgraded to WordPress 2.3. It was uneventful except for a few plug-ins that didn’t work - easily fixed with a plug-in upgrade.
And now back to the regularly-scheduled episode of link sharing.
Turn GMail or any email account into a social networking hub.
Kicking Ass for the Working Class.
Disclosure: My friend Dave is a founder of FanPop. I have no financial interest in the company.
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I really enjoy uncov.
@engtech
I enjoy uncov too, sometimes. But nearly every article I read reminds me of that line in “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” where Ben Affleck/Holden McNeil says something along the lines of “this is where the net nerds go to talk about movies and actors they claim to hate yet can’t stop talking about”. The uncov writers strike me as the same group, with different affections. They bash Arrington, Scoble, etc, but can’t stop talking about them.
Yep it’s somewhat easier to define oneself by what you dislike rather than commit to really loving something. But I see Uncov as a bit of pessimism to go with the Web 2.0 hype - that even I get caught up in from time to time.
Sites like f****dcompany I really enjoyed during the collapse of Web 1.0, showing that I wasn’t alone as the company I was at battened down the hatches for doom. I think without that site and Suck I would have gone insane
@Ross
The virtue of uncov is precisely that they won’t stop ragging on people like Arrington and Scoble. They’re keying on the fact that so much of the tech blogosphere is ego-driven… er, “self-massage”. The guys at uncov are the grit in the ointment.
Hey thanks for the shout out! Actually, I’ve been having the REVERSE problem recently: too much non-spam getting clogged in Akismet. I think this is due to the fact that I often ask for people to put in relevant links related to post content, which, of course, can flag a comment for Akismet.
The other problem I’ve been having is spam trackbacks getting through … I saw that 115 people had clicked a trackback yesterday and went to take a closer look: sure enough, the trackback’s text content was ‘Click here to see the original blog source.’ I looked the site and it’s basically an auto-scraper, only site readers on Web Urbanist thought they were the original source! So clever, and such a pain.