[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Find Your Spam Magnets
- [Weblog Tools Collection - James Huff]
So, you’ve got WordPress, Akismet, and more spam comments than you can keep track of. Wouldn’t you like to know which posts are drawing the most spam attention? Well, Ozh has the perfect script for you!
Simply upload the script to your WordPress root directory and enjoy a listing of your most prominent spam magnets, complete with “a pretty interactive pie chart.” Use the script to track down and close off your spam magnets, research the keywords catching the spammers’ attention, or just do it for fun.
When I ran this script on my blog, I found two spam magnets that shouldn’t have had open comments in the first place…
- Pakistan in need
- [The Big Picture]
The devastating floods that have rolled through Pakistan for over a month now have left a disaster of massive scale in their wake. For a time, an area the size of England was submerged – one fifth of all the land in Pakistan. Although immediate loss of life remains relatively low [...], damages from loss exceed $43 billion, almost one quarter of Pakistan's GDP. [...] Nearly 9 million acres (3.6 million hectares) of existing crops are gone, 1.2 million livestock and 6 million poultry killed, and 17 million of Pakistan's 167 million people affected. [...] One way you can help is by texting "SWAT" to 50555 from your mobile phone to give $10 to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) – more ways to help linked below entry. (43 photos total)
- A map of 40,000 termite mounds could help predict African droughts
- [io9 - Tim Barribeau]
By using high tech scanners, researchers have mapped the location of thousands of termite mounds in Africa. Their newly-released map of these insect civilizations gives us clues about the future of weather on the savannas.
- After the media apocalypse, stories survive as patchwork cloth
- [io9 - Annalee Newitz]
A solar flare wipes the world's electronic media stores clean. Electricity no longer flows. And a new dark age begins, along with a new form of storytelling. It's all chronicled in a strange art show from the future.
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