While thinking about the article I wrote yesterday (Content Theft: Die Splog Die), I came across an interesting article about how to deter image theft, or hotlinking. Hotlinking is when a website links directly to the images stored on your server. Not only is this stealing your image, but it is stealing bandwidth that you [...]

Regular feed and email subscribers of Simply-Basic may have noticed a somewhat harsh-worded copyright notice in Simply-Basic’s articles (web readers don’t see this). The notice reads like this:
Copyright © 2008 John Kolbert. If you are reading this message anywhere besides your feed reader, then this article was stolen. Visit the original article at [url of [...]

Today Simply-Basic reached 1,000 blocked spam messages! Not a huge number, but a milestone nevertheless. In the five months of Simply-Basic’s life, only one spam message has ever gotten through. That’s a pretty impessive filter that has saved me many hours time. Thank you Akismet!

So I just got back from a nice Christmas break visiting family, and I noticed something quite interesting. When I left, Akismet had blocked about 350 spam comments and trackbacks from being posted on my blog. Simply-Basic.com has only been around for a few months so this number seemed adequate. However, in the last week [...]