- Coca-Cola in China is doing a joint promotion with World of Warcraft, and Google Video has a no-doubt illicit copy of it… It’s a bloody entertaining thirty seconds. I always wonder about the UK and why they don’t seem to do these things. I suspect it’s because they just don’t believe these games can have widespread appeal. Not sure…
- Watch a kitten on a MacBook Pro reacting to Front Row And then, once you’ve writhed around in geek ecstasy for ten minutes or so, maybe you could watch it again!
- Billy Bragg vs. MySpace “Once an artist posts up any content (including songs), it then belongs to My Space (AKA Rupert Murdoch) and they can do what they want with it, throughout the world without paying the artist”
- Akismet purports to be a very good spam blocker for MT I tried renaming the MT-comments.cgi script and I have to say it had no effect whatsoever as far as I could tell. I’ll try this plugin that I’ve been recommended before I give up completely…
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I can’t speak for MT, but after installing Askimet on my WordPress blog, my comment spam (a hefty 20-30 a day) has practically disappeared after a month.
‘Geek ecstasy’ nothing – you just like the kitten, don’t you? Nothing wrong with that…
I use Akismet for MT and must say I’m very impressed.
I set up Askimet on my Django-powered blog and have also been impressed. It’s stopped literally hundreds of comment spam messages and has only false-positivied one legit comment as spam.