· Filed under Internet·
According to Kineda we’re part of the top 4000 blogs worldwide. After some calculations I found out that Amsterdamn is at place nr. 1700 of the 55-60 million (!) blogs worldwide. Hopefully we can make it to the top 1000 next year.
So what’s the A-list blogger list all about?
“The Very High Authority Group [A-List Bloggers]
In the final group we see what might be considered the blogging elite. This group, which represents more than 4,000 blogs, exhibits a radical shift in post frequency as well as blog age. Bloggers of this type have been at it longer – a year and a half on average – and post nearly twice a day, an increase in posting volume of over 100% from the previous group. Many of the blogs in this category, in fact, are about as old as Technorati and we’ve grown up together. Some of these are full-fledge professional enterprises that post many, many times per day and behave increasingly like our friends in the mainstream media. As has been widely reported, the impact of these bloggers on our cultures and democracies is increasingly dramatic. ”
· Filed under Internet·
One of the most powerful politic advertisements that I have ever seen.
· Filed under Design·
To use these custom userstyles, download and install the Stylish Firefox extension, and paste them into a newly created blank style. Alternatively, you can paste them into your userChrome.css file located in your Firefox profile folder.
- GoogleWebSearch.css
- GoogleImageSearch.css
- GoogleVideo.css
- YouTube.css
Source:
http://www.valacar.com/userstyles/
· Filed under Wordpress·
5) Deny Access to No Referrer Requests
When humans comment on your blog they have read the post and leave a comment. This of course leaves the referal from your blog. One easy way to block spammers is to check for the referal. Simply paste the lines below into your .htaccess file in the root of your webserver.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*shoemoney.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://whereyouwanttosendthem.com/$ [R=301,L]
What you need to edit:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php* - If you are not running a wordpress blog then you will want to change that to the file that gets the post for comments.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*shoemoney.com.* [OR] - obviously you want this to be your domain.
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://whereyouwanttosendthem.com/$ [R=301,L] - this is where you are redirecting them too. This probably does not matter since the automated spambots will not follow redirects.
Done!
4) Kill tor anonymous proxies
Thats cool people want to surf anonymously and all that but being that about 75% of my comments come from tor proxies its much easier just to block them.
simply go here and copy this to your .htaccess to block all the tor servers
3) Stop Comments On Older Posts
Spammers target older posts for 2 reasons.
A) they show up in search engines and thus they know:
- search engines value the page pr wise
- it could be relavent to the keyword they are trying to spam
B) You wont see it. - since the post is old its unlikely that you would ever notice thus greater chance of sneaking it by you.
You have a few options to fix this-
You can manually disallow comments for posts after x amount of days (ick)
If you have wordpress you can download this plugin
which will automatically close off comments and trackbacks after 21 days.
If you have some h4×0r skills you can setup a cron job (thats a automated task to us ninjas) that will edit your database directly checking for past posts and setting the comments and
2) Blacklist Repeat Offenders:
When some spammers do get in you can blacklist there ips so they wont ever be able to again… this process does suck a bit but its a option.
Again edit your .htaccess file:
order allow,deny
deny from 192.168.1.1
deny from 192.168.1.*
allow from all
Remember * represent wildcards
1) Rename your comment file
The default for wordpress is wp-comments-post.php by simply renaming this file to say… wpc.php then changing your theme to reflect the different location for the comment file you will ward off a TON of spammers. This will kill 100% of the automated spam bots.
Source:
http://www.shoemoney.com/
· Filed under Internet·
According to Techcrunch Stumbleupon is for sale for $50 million
Two sources have confirmed that the rapidly growing StumbleUpon recently approached at least one large Internet company to be acquired. The asking price was $50 million.
The deal doesn’t appear to have been widely shopped - one potential acquiror said that they met with the company recently, but only to explore possible business development deals, and that an acquisition was not discussed. I spoke briefly with StumbleUpon CEO Garret Camp this afternoon but he refused to comment, saying “we do not comment on rumors.†Fair enough.
The real story may be a disconnect between the company’s executives and investors. StumbleUpon has only raised a single seed round of financing - $1.5 million - and angel investors often informally shop a company, with or without the company’s permission, in the hope of an early cash out.
Whatever is going on, StumbleUpon certainly isn’t stumbling in its growth. It is now a significant source of traffic for many startups (an entrepreneur recently told me that 15% of his traffic last week came from StumbleUpon). Garret told me today that the company has 1.5 million registered users and an average of 3.5 million page views per day. They expect to be cash flow positive within the next few months.
· Filed under Wordpress·
Check out the themes page to see the other Wordpress themes.
Name: GreenGrass
Description: A free theme for Wordpress (version 2 and higher)
Greenish
Screenshot
Name: Royaline
Description: A free theme for Wordpress (version 2 and higher)
Classy Darkness
Demo:
Here
Screenshot
Name: Vanesa
Description: A free theme for Wordpress (version 2 and higher)
A New York State of Mind
· Filed under Design·
Sometime after the launch of XP, somewhere in Redmond, someone on the Microsoft design team was in the progress of    developing something for Media Center. It was believed to be too powerful for public consumption and forever archived in    the servers at 1 Microsoft Way. Now 3 years later, a young hobbit man by the name of W3bbo saw light of this unheard    of   theme, and traveled far and wide to uncover its mysteries. One theme to find. One theme to upload. One theme to    rule them all.
Alright, enough Lord of the Rings talk for one day. Devoted Channel9 member W3bbo spotted an interesting theme on       one of the “people_ready†television commercials airing in the States. After some dedicated searching, he finally uncovered    this mystery XP theme by Microsoft. W3bbo writes,
During Royale’s development (the XP Media Center theme), the graphic artists also produced a black version of the skin, sans the overused “glass†effect. The result is an aesthetic black skin named “Royale Noirâ€, it even works with Office 2003.
Since the skin was never released (or reached final adjustments) there are a few issues with it: some of the colors don’t meet the overall “feel†(they’re too purple-ish compared to the greys of the bitmaps) and the inactive titlebars are a little too dark.
You’ll find it’s been signed by Microsoft and doesn’t require a custom UxTheme.dll in case there are any doubts as to its authenticity.
If you already have Royale installed, you’ll need to remove it as both of these skins share the same name.
This skin has not been released to anyone outside Microsoft, until now.
Screenshots
Download links:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/142770/royalenoir.rar
http://www.savefile.com/files/201988
http://rapidshare.com/files/1044522/royale_noir.rar.html
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“It’s new release time. The latest in our venerable 2.0 series, which now counts over 1.2 million downloads, is available for download immediately, and we suggest everyone upgrade as this includes security fixes. We’re breaking the tradition of naming releases after jazz musicians to congratulate Ryan Boren on his new son (and first WP baby) Ronan.
What’s new? We have about 50 or so bugfixes, which you can review on our dev tracker here, mostly minor bug fixes around feeds, custom fields, and internationalization. If you’d like a nitty-gritty view, check out Mark’s blog post on the changes.“
· Filed under Internet·
First of all I’d like to say that Firefox 2.0 is a great improvement as far as I can see.
But there’s a little annoyance that’s still bothering me after using 2.0 for 2 days. The developers changed the way you close the tabs. I was used to the nice and shiny X on the far right side of Firefox 1.5. But they thought it would be better to move the close button to the active tab.
I found an easy way to change it back to the way it was.
1. Type about:config in your address bar and hit the enter button
2. Look up browser.tabs.closeButtons , as you can see the value right now is 1
3. You’ve got to double click on the 1 and change the value to 3
That’s it!
