Comments on: What the hell does asbestos have to do with Wordpress? http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:49:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Akismet et al erroneously flagging trackbacks from Hmm as SPAM, not HAM » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-358126 Akismet et al erroneously flagging trackbacks from Hmm as SPAM, not HAM » Make You Go Hmm Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:40:21 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-358126 [...] Why aren’t there better whitelisting features in Akismet, Matt Mullenweg? Or, if there are, how should people like darkmoon go about employing them? Sure hope you aren’t harboring any grudges over the negative comments I made about your -9000 pixel Wordpress tricks, Matt. [...] […] Why aren’t there better whitelisting features in Akismet, Matt Mullenweg? Or, if there are, how should people like darkmoon go about employing them? Sure hope you aren’t harboring any grudges over the negative comments I made about your -9000 pixel Wordpress tricks, Matt. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Readers noticing wordpress.com redirecting some Scoble traffic to their homepage http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-32542 Make You Go Hmm: » Readers noticing wordpress.com redirecting some Scoble traffic to their homepage Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:02:23 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-32542 [...] Being wordpress.com is in beta status, it’s quite possible this is all an honest mistake, as Matt claimed when they were caught with the -9000 hidden pixel trick, it certainly is another really bad choice of redirection, especially with a blogger as prominent as Scoble. And trust me, it is a choice .. somebody setup the server to redirect errors to the home page. That didn’t happen accidentally. If that somebody was Scoble, then he might want to let his readers know this is the default behavior for error messages, but I doubt seriously he did it or even knows that this is happening. No, I didn’t ask him but now that it’s on Channel 9, I’m sure he will quickly become aware of the situation. [...] […] Being wordpress.com is in beta status, it’s quite possible this is all an honest mistake, as Matt claimed when they were caught with the -9000 hidden pixel trick, it certainly is another really bad choice of redirection, especially with a blogger as prominent as Scoble. And trust me, it is a choice .. somebody setup the server to redirect errors to the home page. That didn’t happen accidentally. If that somebody was Scoble, then he might want to let his readers know this is the default behavior for error messages, but I doubt seriously he did it or even knows that this is happening. No, I didn’t ask him but now that it’s on Channel 9, I’m sure he will quickly become aware of the situation. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » O’reilly’s should hire an Ad Compliance Officer http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-16196 Make You Go Hmm: » O’reilly’s should hire an Ad Compliance Officer Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:53:10 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-16196 [...] Phil Ringnalda noticed something odd with some advertisements running on various O’reilly sites and blogged about it. It reminded Phil of the Wordpress search enging gaming debacle but this more reminds me — and a few of Phil’s commenters — of the syndic8 advertiser playing the PR game mess. I interviewed Jeff Barr about the Syndic8 ad situation in great detail for those who want to delve deeper into why sites are seduced into advertising deals that they might not fully understand or agree with. It happens to smaller sites and bigger sites and really all types of sites. [...] […] Phil Ringnalda noticed something odd with some advertisements running on various O’reilly sites and blogged about it. It reminded Phil of the Wordpress search enging gaming debacle but this more reminds me — and a few of Phil’s commenters — of the syndic8 advertiser playing the PR game mess. I interviewed Jeff Barr about the Syndic8 ad situation in great detail for those who want to delve deeper into why sites are seduced into advertising deals that they might not fully understand or agree with. It happens to smaller sites and bigger sites and really all types of sites. […]

]]> By: Script School News » Show #238 IRC Log http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-6964 Script School News » Show #238 IRC Log Tue, 17 May 2005 16:29:58 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-6964 [...] tch english chinese [23:18:43] [TDavid-LIVE] what the hell does asbestos have to do with wordpress: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/ [23:19:34] [orangecrush] half assed aplolgy [23:20:24] [CatsEye] Friday the 13th [23:22:25] [CatsEye] If I [...] […] tch english chinese [23:18:43] [TDavid-LIVE] what the hell does asbestos have to do with wordpress: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/ [23:19:34] [orangecrush] half assed aplolgy [23:20:24] [CatsEye] Friday the 13th [23:22:25] [CatsEye] If I […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Syndic8 on the hot seat for gaming search engines http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-6737 Make You Go Hmm: » Syndic8 on the hot seat for gaming search engines Thu, 12 May 2005 18:35:46 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-6737 [...] While this situation bears some similarities to the recent Wordpress troubles (see: What the hell does asbestos have to do with Wordpress?), it should be noted that the Syndic8 crew were [...] […]

While this situation bears some similarities to the recent Wordpress troubles (see: What the hell does asbestos have to do with Wordpress?), it should be noted that the Syndic8 crew were […]

]]> By: Chausse.org http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2413 Chausse.org Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:20:05 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2413 [...] Wordpress, the organization that creates the blogging software used by this site just got bitch-slapped by Google for some really sneaky ways of scamming the Google AdWords system. I don&#821 [...] […] Wordpress, the organization that creates the blogging software used by this site just got bitch-slapped by Google for some really sneaky ways of scamming the Google AdWords system. I don&#821 […]

]]> By: SEO Blog http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2406 SEO Blog Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:37:49 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2406 <strong>Wordpress and search spam</strong> WordPress has been caught by spamming search engines by Andy Baio. They created about 120,000 small webpages stuffed by high payed keywords like “cialis”, “credit” and so on, and put invisible links on main page of wordpress.org... Wordpress and search spam

WordPress has been caught by spamming search engines by Andy Baio. They created about 120,000 small webpages stuffed by high payed keywords like “cialis”, “credit” and so on, and put invisible links on main page of wordpress.org…

]]> By: Pete Prodoehl http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2402 Pete Prodoehl Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:12:16 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2402 TDavid, Hmmm, either I was way too tired or I somehow missed the part in parentheses, but re-reading the post makes more sense now. I don't completely disagree with everything you said, I just thought the part about breaking the rules of other sites was a little nuts (and it seems you agree.) Yes, I get a ton of traffic from Google, but I suppose I didn't factor in the AdSense part of as much because I've never used Google Ads on any sites I've maintained I don't feel like I have a two-way relationship with Google, which a site running Google Ads obviously should. I get traffic from MSN as well, though I've never sibmitted my site from MSN, or looked at any guidelines they suggest. I don't block them with robots.txt, but then again, I don't feel I should have to spcifically do that. With MSN, I don't feel like I have any relationship either, sure I get a bit of traffic from them, but I won't go out of my way to get more. I suppose I just get sick of the notion that Google is this all-powerful entity, and if you do anything wrong in relation to Google, you'll be cast out. As far as the .org versus .com, I completely agree, and yes, ultimately I'd like to see the /articles stuff on wordpress.org disappear, and I think/hope Matt will do the right thing in this case. I suppose I'm just willing to allows people to make mistakes, as long as they learn from them and correct them. TDavid, Hmmm, either I was way too tired or I somehow missed the part in parentheses, but re-reading the post makes more sense now. I don’t completely disagree with everything you said, I just thought the part about breaking the rules of other sites was a little nuts (and it seems you agree.)

Yes, I get a ton of traffic from Google, but I suppose I didn’t factor in the AdSense part of as much because I’ve never used Google Ads on any sites I’ve maintained I don’t feel like I have a two-way relationship with Google, which a site running Google Ads obviously should. I get traffic from MSN as well, though I’ve never sibmitted my site from MSN, or looked at any guidelines they suggest. I don’t block them with robots.txt, but then again, I don’t feel I should have to spcifically do that. With MSN, I don’t feel like I have any relationship either, sure I get a bit of traffic from them, but I won’t go out of my way to get more. I suppose I just get sick of the notion that Google is this all-powerful entity, and if you do anything wrong in relation to Google, you’ll be cast out.

As far as the .org versus .com, I completely agree, and yes, ultimately I’d like to see the /articles stuff on wordpress.org disappear, and I think/hope Matt will do the right thing in this case. I suppose I’m just willing to allows people to make mistakes, as long as they learn from them and correct them.

]]> By: Greg Yardley's Internet Blog http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2396 Greg Yardley's Internet Blog Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:58:14 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2396 <strong>WordPress and 'spam'</strong> I get WordPress for free. It's a rocking program. Easy to use, super customizable - I've been nothing but pleased. Therefore, ff Matt Mullenweg wants to earn a little money for his development efforts at the expense of a weakness in Google's Page... WordPress and ’spam’

I get WordPress for free. It’s a rocking program. Easy to use, super customizable - I’ve been nothing but pleased. Therefore, ff Matt Mullenweg wants to earn a little money for his development efforts at the expense of a weakness in Google’s Page…

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Blogger guilty sin #1: ruh-ro, quotes without being in proper context http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2394 Make You Go Hmm: » Blogger guilty sin #1: ruh-ro, quotes without being in proper context Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:44:53 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050330/1642/#comment-2394 [...] brevity, I admit I’m sloppy. So, in total fairness, one should take my quote above in complete context (again, something that bloggers are notoriously sloppy about doing). I can pull a [...] […] brevity, I admit I’m sloppy. So, in total fairness, one should take my quote above in complete context (again, something that bloggers are notoriously sloppy about doing). I can pull a […]

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