Jul | 10 | 2007

The CAPTCHA has been pwnd!

Posted by Jeff as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Spam So, you think CAPTCHAs would cut your spam comments in half? Well, think again. Just a little over a year after Google let loose audio CAPTCHAs (the most common implementation of which is an accessibility icon next to visual, or image CAPTCHA, that play a recording of a series of numbers and/or letters, dumbed down by some background noise) to the brewing security-conscious public, it appears that this, too, has been defeated. Security company BitDefender reports identifying a new Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, taking over and zombify-ing machines, using unsuspecting users' computers to generate Yahoo! and Hotmail ...

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Jun | 03 | 2007

reCAPTCHA: More than the Usual Anti-Spam Measure

Posted by Ia as Blogging Tools, Spam It started with junk mail in real life, creeped into our virtual mailboxes, and has now invaded our blogs as comments and trackbacks. Blog spam is usually characterized by generic advertisements for silly stuff including but not limited to porn, warez, lotteries, pills, insurance, and real estate---often with a suspicious-looking URL. You start getting spammed when spambots find your blog. Unfortunately, that's the price you have to pay for being "popular." The good news is, many developers have thought of ways to combat comment spam. Perhaps the most famous right now is Akismet, which has the following Spam ...

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Apr | 21 | 2007

An Apprenticeship for Promising Blog Careers

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design, Design and Themes, Monetization, Opinion, Plugins, Promotion, Spam, Submissions, Syndication, Templates, Terminology, Tips Many see blogging as a plain write and post scenario. Others use it as a means of training themselves for better things to look forward to such as perhaps leading towards being among the professional bloggers that are in demand today. Anyone can be a problogger if they so choose. All it needs is exposure and practice. Blogger Apprenticeship Program

All probloggers have started from the same area. It just needs to be remembered that all things need practice. This is what new bloggers are up to today. Blogging starts from an apprenticeship stage to ...

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Apr | 17 | 2007

Technical Words May Dismay Your Blog Audience

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Monetization, Opinion, Promotion, Spam, Templates, Terminology, Tips a puzzled reader

Anyone who blogs is out to impress people. The use of deep-meaning words, technical adages, and uncommon terminologies may be appreciated in some ways. But they can also be a means of turning away the blog reader class you may cater to for the reason that they are too hard to understand. One thing about blogs is that they were made for a reason. This reason is that of easily understanding the usual hard to understand terminologies in the easiest way possible through detailed explanation through the view of a professional. This is the level to ...

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Apr | 12 | 2007

Blog Safely and Generally

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Opinion, Spam, Templates, Tips Blog Safety First

While blogging offers people the freedom to express what they feel, it would be best to keep them as broad as possible. Reason behind this is to avoid any libel problems that may come their way from making gestures focused on one area. People or groups who may be cited at one point or another may not be pleased and may call it an attack against their overall being, a reason for them to take such articles as moral damages towards a person or groups overall character. Blogging has been something that is on the ...

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Apr | 11 | 2007

Code of Conduct in Blogging

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging News, Creating a Blog, Spam, Terminology, Tips Blog Threats

It is apparent that not all blogger know how to show respect for other bloggers on the web. While many people tend to either abuse or just plainly disregard what the purpose of blogs are, many have taken it too far. Death threats through posts are only normal but one has to wonder if they are real? Why threat someone for believing in something that they would want to voice out? These are only some of the pathetic things that people cannot simply live by. Everyone is entitled to his own ...

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Mar | 07 | 2007

Rookie Bloggers Can Pull Off Suprises

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging News, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Marketing and Search Optimization, Monetization, Plugins, Software and Widgets, Spam, Submissions, Syndication, Templates, Terminology, Tips, Writing For people who are getting their first taste of actual blogging, a lot would be surprised at their production, even perhaps the rookie blogger himself. Blogging is not a sophisticated job but rather easy as saying “Hello”. A new term for freestyle writing today, blogging has enticed a lot of people to take it up, both in the business and personal aspect of blogging. Since its inception in the market, there have been a lot of people who have turned to blogging as a regular habit. Newbie Writer/ Blogger

For newbie bloggers, a lot ...

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Feb | 27 | 2007

Being a Blogger by Example

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging News, Creating a Blog, Design, Design and Themes, Monetization, Opinion, Plugins, Promotion, Spam, Submissions, Syndication, Terminology, Tips, Writing Blog By Example

Newbie bloggers do not always have to worry about having to learn from the probloggers today. For one thing, new bloggers are the torch bearers to which future bloggers will make a benchmark. Hence, a blogger is not expected to become a pro overnight. Just like the probloggers today, they too will have to toil and work on their compositions and stuff before they can truly be categorized as veteran probloggers that are in demand all over the world. Bloggers do not have to worry about finding ...

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Feb | 17 | 2007

Distinguishing the Difference between Repetition and Keyword Use

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Monetization, Plugins, Promotion, Spam, Terminology, Tips, Writing If there is one thing that bloggers must watch out for is that of avoiding being put under the category of being a spam blogger. Spam bloggers are people tagged with simply using words as often as they wish without making any sense at all. These repeated words are obviously considered the keywords to which an entry is expected to market. Repetition

While one aspect may be accomplished, that of which is to focus on keyword use, another area is suffering, that of which is overall content. Between the two, content is of course ...

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Jan | 28 | 2007

Learning from Blog Comments and Interaction

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Linking, Monetization, Spam, Tips Blogging is not mainly a one way stream of blurting out the things that go around in the mind of a person. It is also about inheriting various insights and ideas from another person’s point of view that may or may not share the same belief on certain areas for consideration. Again, most blogs rely on instinct and insights to which certain topics of interest may not be analyzed or viewed in the same manner that people would see it. Blog Comment Spamming

Some may consider blog comments as a form of spam. These are ...

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