It’s time to get the comments... If you use a WordPress blog, then you know that checking the comments is a huge deal – and needs to be done far too often for what is mostly spam. What to do? Awhile back for ActiveBlogging members, I wrote a plugin to...

I heard about another “Beginner’s Guide” release today – and every time I hear that phrase I cringe. Not because beginner guides aren’t useful or good – we all started out with them (and despite the truly insulting title, I find the Dummies line of books to be great introductions,...

I admit I’ve been in a cave for the past decade or so – but remember when Open Source was the greatest thing since sliced bread? Collaborative software and the philosophy that “to enough eyes, all bugs are small”. It sounded so good, and the future was so bright. What...

In an interview Monday, Larry Hryb, Chief Programmer of Xbox Live at Microsoft, announced that the problems being experienced from hackers with the online gaming platform Xbox Live were really the fault of the Internet. While declining to explain specifically what part the Internet played in the failure, he assured...

When I first went out looking for web hosting (back in the mid-90s), I grabbed the first provider that was cheap enough. Locally owned, he ran his place downtown, and looked perfectly fine. ...Until he went bankrupt, taking my advance payment for the year and leaving me scrambling for hosting...