Personnel-related "efficiencies" can be good or bad, depending on one’s perspective. Companies want to save money, of course, and their shareholders also appreciate savings. But employees like to keep their jobs. So let’s take a look at what sort of effect the Microsoft-Yahoo deal may have.
YouTube Fights Comment Idiocy With Audio Preview
Two things a person doesn’t always know: Who’s listening and how words are going to sound before they come out. The latter, if we want to get technical about it, is regulated by the orbitofrontal cortex of the amigdala, which unfortunately is switched off while a person uses the Internet—nonverbal communication is required for this to function properly—hence all the stupid comments loading down the Internet like a soiled diaper.
McCain Camp Employs Comment Spam
At what point does campaigning become propaganda? Immediately? When does shrewd and savvy cross the line to become just plain yick? Senator John McCain’s campaign squad doesn’t seem all that concerned about these questions; blog comment spam these days is just part of the political landscape. If the landscape consists of AstroTurf, anyway.
Blog Comment Ownership Question Resurrected
This is a topic destined for a courtroom one day, bitter enemies formed along the way: Can a blog publisher collect blog comments and publish them in a book? We addressed this topic weeks ago, with no definitive answer. The question arises again today as a result of simultaneous, otherwise minor, occurrences.
Stopping WordPress Comment Spam
I am now averaging over 100 spam emails every day in my Akismet spam trap. So, thank you Akismet.
But being a conscientious kind of guy, I want to make sure a “false positive” hasn’t got quarantined, so I like to go through the spam comments before deleting them, just to be sure.
Comment Spam, Long Copy Referrer Pages & SEO Tools
Just about everyone knows that spam is part and parcel of life. We just live with it and try to do our best to minimise the impact it has on our daily lives. Unfortunately spam is a particular issue for the SEO industry, as unscrupulous search marketers often turn to spamming techniques to make a quick dollar.
Dealing with Comment Spam
If you run a web site that allows comments, you are going to get comment spam – that’s just a fact of life in the current Internet.
Strategies for Preventing Comment Spam
Bloggers are painfully aware of website owners who try to improve their websites rank by adding links to blogs. There are several strategies for combating this problem.
Comment is free
An evolutionary development in mainstream media engagement with readers and others by The Guardian in the UK, which has launched Comment is free:
Congress: NSA Requests? Yahoo: No Comment
During the Congressional smackdown on search engine companies over their business practices in China, one Congressman raised the issue of surveillance with Yahoo.