Comment Verification Followup
Wow, it is great to create something that people find useful! My article on WordPress Comment Verification has generated lots of trackbacks and comments, all...
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Big Fat Feeds!
This evening, while doing some technical review on a book draft, I happened to watch the tail end of the Syndic8 poll. The poll consists of one master proces...
WordPress Comment Verification (With Source Code)
Comment Spammers are Scum! Every time something new and cool is invented, jerks like them have to pollute it and ruin it for everyone else.
Must.Have.More.Frostop.Root.Beer!
About two weeks ago I saw a cardboard display case at my local Safeway. It was full of brown, 1-liter bottles of Frostop Root Beer.
The Invaluable MySQL Query Log
I was trying to track down a “query storm” on Syndic8 earlier today. At irregular intervals, the query rate would jump up from 10,000 queries per minute to s...
Today’s Interesting Syndication Links
Some random stuff I collected today, all related to syndication:
Change This
I am a regular reader of the manifestos, presentations, and other material posted at changethis.com. Right now they are offering a free copy of Seth Godin’s ...
USA Today RSS Feeds
USA Today now has a very complete set of RSS feeds, and you can get them here.
RSS Reader Usage Statistics
A correspondent asked me if I had any good statistics on the usage of RSS Readers. I don’t, but some other people do:
XML-RPC for .Net
An email correspondent asked me if I have a URL API for the Syndic8 Web Services. I don’t have a REST API, but I probably should, considering how successful ...