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Inspite of the fact that my comment policy (has anyone read these?) is a little “strict”, I’ve been very liberal about comments and trackbacks on this blog.
My comments have finally risen and I’ve always believed to make it worth the while for you to comment out here.
I’ve had the DoFollow plugin for a long long [...]

I’ve been receiving a few reports lately about users having problem while writing comments on this blog.
These problems have been of two kind.
First being your comments landing in the spam bin. I am not sure why this has been happening. Also, it has been rare.
I’ve been going through the Spam comments anyway to check if [...]

Update: STC is now active on the blog. There has been a few improments in the code since I last used it.
Just one point I noticed is that the code for the “Subscribe without Commenting” form is not XHTML 1.1 complaint. For that you need to add <fieldset style=”border:none”> after the opening form tag and [...]

I have been making quite a few changes to this blog for the past few weeks now.
Feed Changes
Feed Redirection
Began first by redirecting my blog feed /feed/ to the Feedburner one. So even if you have been subscribing to /feed/ you will be redirected correctly and I have better ways of keeping a count of everyone [...]

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/design/Popularity_How_do_You_measure_it’;
reddit_url = ‘http://ajaydsouza.com/archives/2006/08/12/popularity-how-do-you-measure-it/’;
I haven’t been very active in the Indian Blogosphere and so missed the entire discussion over Kiruba being the No. 1 blogger in India (according to Blogstreet).
Patrix has expressed his opinion on Popularity in the Indian Blogosphere. He goes on to list several Indian blogs (including mine) according to their Technorati [...]

Blog spam is something that every blogger fears. Spam appears in different forms. It can vary from trackback or pingback spam, comment spam, deliberate harsh comments to email harvesting and spam resulting from it.
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/security/A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Protecting_Your_Blog_from_Spam’;
Spam cannot be stopped. But by following a few good steps you can protect yourself from it.
This tutorial will teach [...]

Following the instructions to add coComment to WordPress, I am thinking of doing the same for my blog.
coComment is a unique service. You can track comments on blogs you comment on and track the resulting conversation.
Quite and interesting and innovative concept, which I have been playing with recently. However, like I said I am thinking [...]

Have been getting a lot comment and trackback spam both on this blog as well as the blog of my friend Melody.
My blog is powered by WordPress, but I have b2evolution running for her.
Have added a lot of spam words to her block list of b2evo and it seems to have currently stopped. I guess [...]