Linked List: January 4, 2005

Tuesday, 4 January 2005

Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam ★

A comprehensive (5,000+ words) look at weblog comment spam: what it is, how it works, and what you can do to fight it. Written by yours truly, but several folks at Six Apart contributed significantly to the final product.

The background information is intended for non-technical weblog publishers, and attempts to explain why comment spam is such a complex problem. The recommendations are geared toward Movable Type users, but the concepts should be helpful to anyone dealing with weblog spam.

Subversion Excursion ★

Andrew Pontious on getting started with Subversion on Mac OS X.

Pre-Expo Apple Product Announcements ★

Apple must have plenty of new stuff to announce at the Expo next week, since they announced a bunch of things today:

Price cuts across the line on Cinema Displays. (20-inch model just $999 now.)
Xsan network storage system has finally shipped (was supposed to ship sometime last year).
Refreshed line-up of Xserves.

Bare Bones T-Shirt Upgrades at Macworld Expo ★

Wear your old Bare Bones shirt to the show, get a new shirt free.

FlickrExport 1.1 ★

Updated version of Frasier Speirs’s nifty iPhoto plug-in for exporting photos directly to Flickr. This is a great little plug-in. (The rejiggered UI in this update is much-improved from 1.0, but I think the use of Aqua’s “mini” control widgets is a bit off — I’d prefer normal-sized controls in a larger window.)