Blog crudely back – comment spam fighting ideas

Reading of old comments, and navigation of my blog (through the blog matrix found on the writings page) is now possible. I don’t have all the fancy navigation stuff that I did before, but I’m working on it. I also

Another reason to make a custom feed of my blog

Want another reason to set up your own custom feed of my blog? Quite simple: you can get the thumbs buttons for my posts, right in the feed. And if you sign up for your own thumb set, you can

Reputation condensation

In the reading for a class that I’m auditing, we came across

Junseok Hwang and Choong Hee Lee, Agent-based Modeling for Differentiated Admission in P2P systems Using Evolutionary Game Theory Focused on Ownership Reputation, Second Workshop on the Economics of

Blog “off” due to excessive comment spam

Hi folks. My blog is being turned “off” due to excessive comment spam, at the request of the manager of the server that my blog is being hosted on.

I am complying. Comments are now off (I’ve renamed the comment

On monetizing blogs

Anyone can blog, but it takes a heavy-hitter like Blogger to make it available to the people. If every blog had the overhead costs that people like you and I invest in (domain name, web host) then a lot less …

My new comment system is in place

Hi folks!

My new comment system is in place. There will be certain oddities about it, and bugs to work out, I’m sure. But I’d be delighted if you’d try it out. I’m actually quite proud of it, and it

Some bumps in the road

The server load from comment/refer/trackback spam was too much for one webhost to handle, so I switched this over to another web host. While I was at it, I also upgraded to WordPress 1.5 (it’s about time folks!).

Not everything

Talk about leveraging

So, I’m on the job market, to look for positions as a computer science professor starting Fall 2005. I hope to have my degree finished by May 2005. If you know of jobs for me, let me know.

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