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Over 80 percent of blog posts are probably spam
via Text Technologies by Curt Monash on March 03, 2008
Doug Caverly highlights a Matt Mullenweg quote indicating that about 1/4 of all the blogs ever on Wordpress.com were spam (aka splogs). Now, that’s probably a higher fraction than for the blogoverse overall, because:Wordpress.com provides costless hosting; using your own domain costs money.Besides being free, Wordpress.com hosting may provide a little “google juice”, which is the whole SEO...
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PC Magazine picks 157 of their favorite free ... [Downloads]
via RB | Popular | min 3 by (author unknown) on March 02, 2008
Gina Trapani via Lifehacker shared by 11 peoplePC Magazine picks 157 of their favorite free applications, from operating systems to security software to webapps. Pretty good list, if a bit long—here's our top 10 free Windows downloads..
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Blogging Is Good For Your Social Life: Study
via RB | Popular | min 3 by (author unknown) on March 02, 2008
... not all good news however, as the study found that some “potential bloggers” start from a less socially integrated position. Professor Susan Moore told the ABC:“We found potential bloggers were less satisfied with their friendships and they felt less socially integrated, they didn’t feel as much part of a community as the people who weren’t interested in blogging,” Ms Moore said...
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Top 10 Places for Photography in San Francisco
via Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection by Thomas Hawk on February 27, 2008
... highlighted different views of the points of interest with links so that you can get a better idea what I'm talking about. Most images are geotagged so you should be able to find them pretty easily. If you can't find a site for whatever reason, shoot me an email or comment and I'll try to point you in the right direction.So on with the list. #1 The Golden Gate Bridge. This...
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Google Reader One Click Unsubscribe
via gHacks technology news by Martin on February 27, 2008
If you want to unsubscribe a feed in Google Reader you have to click on the Feed Settings pulldown menu and select Unsubscribe from the list. After that a confirmation dialog appears asking you if you really want to unsubscribe from that feed. If you subscribe to feed regularly or want to clean up your feeds you are in for a solid clicking frenzy.Firefox users - and everyone else using a browser...
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Code search options
via Text Technologies by Curt Monash on February 28, 2008
Questions come up here from time to time about code search engines, a subject I have not researched. Well, here’s a quick link listing some leading code search engines, both Web (guess who?) and internal. Most interesting may be that the list is so short.
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Adding websites to the Data Mining Search Engine
via Data Mining Research - www.dataminingblog.com by Sandro Saitta on February 26, 2008
Since its start a few months ago, the Data Mining Search Engine keeps growing. The number of queries on this custom search engine has reached the 1000. There are now 86 websites indexed and 18 contributors. See the links on the right sidebar of this blog for contributing to the search engine website list (even with your own website or blog, if it is related to data mining).In this post, I would...
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