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For the next few days the header image above will be a collage of images from Automattic’s stay at Stinson Beach. Most of us are there so see if you recognise any faces! (It’s a long story, watch Trapped in the Closet first!)
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Andy announced a new WordPress stats plugin that uses the polished WordPress.com traffic graphs on your own self-hosted WordPress blog. I’ve been testing it here for the past few months and it’s worked fine. I must download the new plugin and install it to see what other goodies Andy has added since. Eventually I’ll get [...]
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Has anyone else noticed an increase of spam comments on Flickr lately? I noticed my first spam comment there only last week, complained about it, and the comment and user were both deleted shortly afterwards. I thought nothing more of it. This morning I got an unwelcome shock when I checked my Flickr comments through [...]
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- Tags: Automattic, bloglines, comments, flickr, irishblogs, spam, Web, WordPress
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Here I am blogging away at BarCamp South East. It’s been a great day so far. My talk was scheduled for 10:50am which was a relief to get out of the way. Feedback has been positive too and horrors of horrors, I actually enjoyed the talk! Video and podcasts will be online eventually and I’ll [...]
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- Tags: Automattic, barcamp, barcampsoutheast, barcampwaterford, blogging, Drupal, Ireland, irishblogs, Open-Source, waterford, Web, When-in-Ireland, WIT, WordPress
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Robert Scoble talks to Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic in this video interview about WordPress.com, Automattic and lots of other stuff. I’ve only watched the first 10 minutes, Toni talks about some of the features of WordPress.com – paid features, making money, adverts, fighting splogs and more. Do you like Akismet? That’s covered too. [...]
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- Tags: akismet, Automattic, scoble, splog, toni-schneider, WordPress, wordpress.com
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I found out from Damien that BarCamp Ireland now has it’s own blog. Their press release gives a quick overview, but if you want to know who’s going and talking you should take a look at the BarCamp wiki where you can signup to attend. There are twelve speakers so far with topics ranging from [...]
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- Tags: Automattic, barcamp, cork, Ireland, Web, WordPress
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I hope Ryan sees this, but 6 tips for working at home with children lists 2 good work habits that anyone working at home should follow: Maintain a good work schedule, and stick to it. Take a long lunch and enjoy your opportunity to work from home. I haven’t been able to do either. I [...]
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One year on and still going strong! Lorelle was the first to notice but shortly afterwards Matt posted a nice message saying that yes we had forgotten to celebrate the birthday but it was great that one of our own bloggers had remembered. Nice list of trivia too! Reading through that list, it’s true that [...]
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Last week I went to San Francisco to meet up with the rest of Automattic and attend WordCamp 2006. There's plenty of coverage of WordCamp so I'm sure you're not interested in me telling you how great it was, who said what, what sucked, etc, etc! What I would like to say is my heartfelt [...]
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WordCamp went really well yesterday. I’m a little hungover today so I’ll point you in the direction of others who blogged the event: My Day at Wordcamp 2006 WordCamp Notes Scott’s photos Camping on Words My photos Flickr’s wordcamp tag WordCamp Wrapup The women of WordCamp 2006 Blog Herald coverage Changing Way LBnuke – Wordcamp [...]
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Is Flickr under attack by spam?
Donncha O Caoimh | February 17, 2007 | 20 comments
Has anyone else noticed an increase of spam comments on Flickr lately? I noticed my first spam comment there only last week, complained about it, and the comment and user were both deleted shortly afterwards. I thought nothing more of it. This morning I got an unwelcome shock when I checked my Flickr comments through [...]
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