It appears that boobs are the hottest new thing in social networking. At least if you take the Social Networking category on iTunes as a reference.

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I hate blog spammers. Unfortunately, you normally don't know who exactly is responsible for blog spam and so there's usually very little you can do about it beyond getting angry, deleting the comment, and feeling wholly inadequate about the whole thing.

However, today, I saw some spam on my blog from a company called First Rate, promoting the web site of a certain photographer (Update: name and spam comment removed to protect the photographer who is innocent in all this, read my follow-up post for First Rate's reponse).

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If you have a Yahoo Mail email address, chances are you are being kicked out of OSFlash mailing lists as we speak by the Mailman mailing list software that we use. If your favorite list or lists have gone silent suddenly, this is the reason. Until Yahoo! fixes this or tells me what I need to do to fix it, I would suggest that you use a non-Yahoo email address to subscribe to OSFlash mailing lists.
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I just added Joost de Valk's RSS Footer plugin to my blog after reading his post Make the scrapers work for you!

I like scrapers about as much as I like spammers so anything I can do to thwart their efforts is a win in my book! :)

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I use Bad Behavior and Akismet on this blog to control spam and, while the solution works splendidly, it isn't without the occasional hiccup.

Yesterday, Corban Baxter alerted me that he couldn't digg my startling exposé of Apple's upcoming flying MacBook Pros (thanks, Corban!). Googling around this morning, I found that the problem was being caused by Bad Behavior, not Wordpress. Or, more specifically, according to the author of Bad Behavior, it is a problem with Digg's crawler.

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