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Akismet Killer Spam
A new piece of comment spam making the rounds breaks popular WordPress plugin Akismet, by blocking access to the Akismet spam queue.
Symptom: Your Akismet spam queue displays nothing but the number 35.
Solution: Go into phpMyAdmin from your hosting control panel and browse wp_comments. Find and delete entries from “Bush” using email address “main@yandex.com” and URL “http://google.com”, like so:
Once you’ve deleted all such entries, your Akismet spam queue should be accessible again.
Spam that punishes anyone who filters it. Vicious.
Videoblogger Makes MSM Front Page
As Joey Alarilla points out, only newspapers that maximize the Internet will survive. Like The New York Times, The Modesto Bee could be one of them.
Here’s their video interview of popular videoblogger Cory “Mr. Safety” Williams. You gotta respect a newspaper with its own YouTube Director account.
Cory talks about his new show, but laments that his community doesn’t have much of a local film scene. Good thing Filipino YouTube Directors come from a country where YouTube rules. Read on for Cory’s reaction. Click here to continue reading “Videoblogger Makes MSM Front Page”…
