I’m getting overwhelmed by blog spam, so I’ve enabled the Akismet filter. The catch is that it gets some false positives. If your comment fails to appear, don’t take it personally — just e-mail me and I’ll rescue it from the bit bucket.
Sideblog
- City Council is rethinking the new branding for CTS. #
- Wild Virginia is hosting an environmental film festival at Vinegar Hill in a couple of weeks, showing a whole mess of short films on that theme. #
- You can get The Daily Progress on your Kindle. It's a very reasonable $4.49/month. #
- The county appears to be backing down on cutting JMRL's funding, led by Lindsay Dorrier. #
- Albemarle Police have investigated and punished four officers for misconduct, but that's about all they're saying. #
- Yet again, a large-scale melee broke out at Fashion Square, more than 100 teenagers shutting it down last night. See also July 2007 and January 2008. #
- Still got stinkbugs from the October invasion? Get to know your tenants. #
- For you
CTSCAT riders out there, the HoosBus iPhone app is great. It's free. # - One in ten downtown storefronts is vacant. #
- Plan 9 has closed their Williamsburg location. They've only got two locations left. #
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Yeah, I’ve seen a three-fold increase in the quantity of blogspam getting past *Akismet* in the last month or so. It has tapered off, presumably as Akismet adapts.
It has been paralleled by an increase in email spam that gets past Gmail.
I’m sorely tempted to just move to a knowledge CAPTCHA (is there a better term for it?), such as “The most famous president from Charlottesville is _______ Jefferson,” and have people fill in “Thomas.” On the one hand, it’d be annoying to do that with every post. On the other hand, it’s even more annoying for people having to wait hours or days for me to approve their comment.