As some of you may remember, over the weekend I published some of my thoughts about very visible increase in spam volumes that arrives in comments to blogs. I was not the only person noticing that and my idea was that spammers were trying to compensate for loss of email channel for spam after McColo...

Image by ario_j via Flickr Anyone who’s been publishing a blog for a while has received comments that are inappropriate for a Christian site–comments full of obscenities or bearing links to pornography–or comments that you would rather not have published on your blog. There are alw...

I may be paranoid or something but I have a feeling that there is something very suspicious going on in the spam empire. You may remember that this week we have discussed news about a hosting company that powered numerous spammers and scammers disconnected from the internet. What’s more, we we...

In 2006, I wrote about copyright violations saying that it wasn’t a matter of if but when your content would be stolen. The same premise applies to blog bullies. It’s not a matter of if a blogger will blog bad things about you but when. It’s going to happen. It may have already hap...

Here’s a question. If blog comments are mini-resumes, which comments are bringing the most traffic to your blog? When you leave a comment on a blog, there are three things at work. Your desire to participate in the blog conversation and topic. Your desire to increase your link credits through ...

That may seem a very silly question but if you want to create a dedicated reader base for your blog - you must know the answer. If you can guess what the other person is thinking or why the other person is taking a step, you may have a chance to get into it. Why I am asking this question? For last c...

Ah, how I love the smell of blog in the morning! Check out the comboxes here and here for details. And, to whet your appetite, here’s one of my fave moments. It takes place when armchair atheist “Evan” apparently decides spouting off his latest diatribes against God, the Bible, and...

Refill the coffee, Thelma. This post is long and impassioned. It might even be worth a read I’ve been impressed enough with Disqus to give it a go. I’m ok with it, but it’s not there yet. I have realised that my frustrations with its failure to import old comment threads from Wordp...

"When you write comments on other people's blogs, is it okay to include a link to your own blog? If not, what's an acceptable way to give your blog URL?" Cheryl in Santa Clara asked in our Law of Action 2.0 program. Recently several people have commented on this blog leaving their blog addresses and...

I just came across a really refreshing blog by Alexander van Elsas on new media and technologies and their effect on social behavior. He has a ton of really insightful posts, including a recent post where he states some great points on why "the conversation" needs to be kept open and free. In fact, ...