(b)logophile

Here is a service I would sign up for in a heartbeat: I tell you the authors and musicians I follow, and you notify me when they release something new. You don’t have to do fancy algorithmic guessing at my interests: there are plenty of artists I enjoy but who I don’t follow obsessively. This [...]

This idea I give free and gratis to teh internets, in the hopes that somebody more technically adept will implement it: a converter to turn a sequential archive into a delayed-update rss feed. Ever discover a new webcomic? And have your productivity drop to zero while you rampage through an archive backlog of several hundred [...]

I’m not sure quite where I’m going with this yet, so bear with me; the tale will I hope grow in the telling. I’ve been struck over the last couple of days by a scam phenomenon that’s at least new to me, and that seems likely to me to get more and more prevalent. (It’s [...]

A couple of thoughts about trapping comment spam: my first idea was, add a textfield requiring a significant word from the blog entry in question. Simple for a person to produce, and in practise you just need to check if the word occurred in the entry at all, skipping a list of obvious stop words [...]