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The Register interviews a link spammer

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If you own a blog, you have probably experienced it: Spammers who fill your comment sections with ads for Viagra, porn and gambling. Its the new nuisance of the web: Link spammers. The Register has gotten a hold of one of them, and bring us this informative interview: Interview with a link spammer So how and why do “link spammers” – as they generically call themselves – do it? Are they the same as the email spammers? What do they think of what they do, ethically? And what can stop […]

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Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties

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From Juicy Studio, although the article focuses on writing for people with “Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties”, it could just as well have been for “the typical stressed web-user”. Many of the tips has to do with making your site as accessible as possible for anyone stressed out of their wits and trying to find some important information on your site. Juicy Studio: Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties When people think about accessibility of web content, there’s a tendency to concentrate on people with visual

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Search TV with Google

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This is an interesting announcement through the Google Blog: Google Video is a new product that enables you to search an index of transcripts from recent TV programs. It’s just an early-stage beta product at this point; you’ll only see stills and text snippets from shows that match your search terms, and you can only search shows from a few channels, dating back to December, 2004, when we started compiling the index. Google promises to keep improving this early version of “video search”. As far as I can tell all

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Jon Udells screencast of the life of a Wikipedia article

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This one seems to be going the rounds on the blogs I read: Heavy metal umlaut: the movie Its very interesting to see the evolution of this article through 2 years. To me it shows the power of Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia. Being an old Flash developer, it was also nice to see him using a system that utilises Flash for presentation, its in my mind clearly the right choice on the web today. Naturally I became curious to what tool he might have used. From what I can gather

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How to run a program as another user in Windows

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Thank you Gisle, I knew there was support for “sudo” in Windows XP, but I have never used it. As most of you know, most single users run their Windows setup as administrators, giving any program or script full access through your user at any time. Its one of the largest security problems facing Windows machines. But there is a way to use Windows with a limited user and quickly change to administrator level when needed.

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RSS feeds and copyright

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This dumb ass (also known as Martin Schwimmer of Trademark Blog, has a problem with Bloglines picking up his public RSS-feed and redistributing it. Because they might at some stage serve ads together with the content. For those of you unfamiliar with Bloglines; its an online feedreader that you can use to read most any feeds from any news source or blog on the net that has its own feed. Martin: I have the perfect solution: Stop publishing the feed. Its that simple. Crying about copyright problems when someone distributes

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