Category: Best Practices

Bastards put my own URL in one of their spam comments and in my haste I deleted some legitimate comments (posted by myself). Feelin’s stupid. If I go to backups of my mysql database should I be able to resurrect the killed comments? I did manage to preserve the post IDs for the comments, which…

I wasn’t kidding about wanting a intern to volunteer for spam-destruction. As a perk I will offer posting privileges to the front page of this blog to anyone (who is already a blogger) who volunteers for this all-important spam squelching mode. This requires both deleting spam and banning URLs daily but also noticing the patterns…

I declare this blog (Blogistan Editorial) a failure! How liberating to say so. Plus, it died, so we can dissect it without causing any further pain to the organism. My theory, it’s a dry eddy off the mighty Mississipppi that is Radio Free Blogistan. We have a whole community out there and we’re conspiring the…

Scott writes: I argued that it’s silly to talk about blogs “killing” print – that we keep getting stuck in a loop every time a new news distribution technology comes along, asking, will this “kill” its predecessor? Radio didn’t kill print, TV didn’t kill radio, the Net didn’t kill TV, and blogs won’t kill anything.…

First of all, the WOW party at Chevy’s last evening was really fun. I met some cool people from NCI (the National Cancer Institute), part of the US government’s department of Health and Human Services, who have developed a comprehensive set of web development best-practice guidelines that they will be distributing free soon via PDF.…