Image by N'ayez pas peur!! La Fabrique de Blogs via FlickrI enjoy playing around with new "toys", so I was delighted to get an email earlier this evening from one of the Zemanta team earlier this evening to let me know that they'd added support for Movable Type.The concept behind Zemanta is intriguing. It's a browser plugin that integrates with serveral of the more popular … [Read more...] about Testing Zemanta On MovableType With Swiftweasel
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Official Google Blogs Now Accepting Comments
While I've always found the official Google blogs to be good sources of information they lacked interaction as comments were disabled.They've now changed their policy and are accepting relevant commentsFrom what I've been able to work out they haven't enabled comments on all their blogs as yet and Google staff don't seem to be engaging with the public. So it seems like it's a … [Read more...] about Official Google Blogs Now Accepting Comments
SixApart Expands Services and Acquires Consultancy
Blogging company SixApart announced a major expansion earlier today. (They also quietly unveiled a new look for their main corporate site)The company announced its acquisition of New York based Apperceptive who will form the core of their new services division. Apperceptive's team have not only worked on a lot of very high profile projects but have also developed … [Read more...] about SixApart Expands Services and Acquires Consultancy
Mail Server Oddities – Comment Delays
For the past couple of weeks I hadn't been getting any email notifications about pending comments on this blog, which is why some of them took so long to appear. Since I tend to login to check for new comments every few hours and had also been hit pretty badly with comment and trackback spam, I didn't think too much about it. I logged in just now and noticed more comments in … [Read more...] about Mail Server Oddities – Comment Delays
Minor Change To Comments Policy
In order to preserve what little sanity I have left I've changed the way comments are handled on here slightly.Since comment and trackback spammers seem to target old posts I've decided to automatically close comments on posts that are 6 months old or older.The old posts that were attracting the odd comment were mainly to do with older versions of Ubuntu etc., so there's not … [Read more...] about Minor Change To Comments Policy