“Akismet Spam Count retrieves the number of spam messages Akismet has caught.”
Huge Win for Online Journalists' Source Protection
Software tracks mood swings of blogosphere
“[MoodViews] tracks about 10 million blogs hosted by the US service LiveJournal. […]
About 250,000 new LiveJournal posts are created every day and roughly 150,000 of these include a label for one of hundreds of different moods. Moodviews keeps track of these labels and generates a graph, revealing emotions shifts across all LiveJournal blogs over time.”
New Scientist
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refkill.org – secure you privacy
WordPress 2.0.2 Security Release
“An important security issue has been brought to the attention of the WordPress team and we have worked diligently to bring you a new stable release that addresses it. Our latest version 2.0.2 contains several bugfixes and security fixes.”
WordPress 2.0.1 Released
“It’s been exactly one month since we released the well-received WordPress 2.0 release. In the past 4 weeks we’ve been listening closely to feedback, squashing bugs wherever we find them, and watching how 2.0 handled under different loads.
We’ve rolled up all the most important fixes into a 2.0.1 release, which is now available for download. All in all we’ve closed 114 bugs in the 2.0.1 release […].”
LiveJournal still vulnerable?
“It is unclear whether LiveJournal has managed to close the security holes that the hackers claim to have used. The company says it has, but the hackers insist there are still at least 16 other similar Javascript flaws on the LiveJournal site that could be used conduct the same attack.
Group members said they plan to turn their attention to looking for similar flaws at another large social-networking site.”
LJ Changes to User Subdomains
“Starting tonight, you can now reach your journal and community at a new, shorter user subdomain. […]
All journals will now be located at http://username.livejournal.com.
All communities will now be located at http://community.livejournal.com/username.
Blogsome's Downtime Continues
“We made a decision to do the transfer while leaving access to blogs (i.e. not turning off the site altogether). It now seems that this has made the switchover go more slowly than we had planned. […] It looks like we will not be able to restore access to admin functions until 9am UTC Thursday.”
Blogsome is being improved
“Blogsome is currently being moved […] in order to add additional servers to our network. The outcome should be a much faster blogging service. The work will take a number of hours. Your blog will be viewable to the public during this time.”