Listen folks, we’re still waiting for some submissions on a possible logo. Very few takers so far. You don’t want to see what I’ll cook up.
But that’s just the glitz and glitter — you’re here for the content, right? And the behind-the-scenes boring stuff? Of course you are. Here’s some more:
1. In the two weeks since I posted that, for the first time, spam comments outnumbered legitimate comments, the level of spam has skyrocketed. Spam now outranks legitimate comments by 50% (there’s 951 spam to 628 legitimate). Sure, you could comment more, but I’ve taken steps to slow that down:
a) I’ve turned off comments to posts older that three weeks. Because I have a nice little “two weeks ago” feature at the right hand side, there, I thought it would be nice to keep comments open for a few days if you see something that you like there. But after three weeks, bam!, I’m shutting the door.
b) I’ve also installed a spam filter called Askimet, which should cut down on spam by detecting it automatically. To be honest, the spam that we deal with here is pretty obviously spam. Lots of links that blare pornography and pills. Strange, but the mortgage come-ons have declined a lot, recently.
c) Why do you care? I know, you’ve never seen spam on this blog ever! That’s because every comment is held for moderation until you’ve “proven yourself” with one legitimate comment. So we kill all the spam before it gets to you. But that’s almost a thousand times we’ve had to glance over and delete spam. This filter should allow us more time to do what you love — bloggin!
2. On that note, we’re now joining the digital revolution that is Twitter. Yes, you can follow this blog at:
We’ve got it set up so that each blog post goes out as a separate tweet, and we promise not to do silly things like tell you what we’re having for breakfast, or how sad we feel, LOL. Each post will also come with a short-form link to the actual blog, through the cli.gs service. It’s like tinyurl in that it takes something lengthy, like “http://www.absurdintellectual.com/2009/04/02/slight-improvements-to-the-blog/” and turns it into something short, like “http://cli.gs/45A7bp“. It’s perfectly legit, and you can click on it. It also helps keep things within the 140 character Twitter limit.
As always, we exist because we hope that people find interesting the same things that we find interesting. Comments or suggestions? Comment away below!
Grant Hamilton
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