Software bounty – $100 for comment-spam blacklist tool

By rickColosimo / May 12, 2009 / Comments Off on Software bounty – $100 for comment-spam blacklist tool

Over on Triiibes, there is a group for wordpress users; the population seems to trend pretty heavily to blogging types, so it’s pretty lively and there’s lots of direct experience with issues. Someone recently asked about dealing with comment spam in a way that goes beyond the super-awesome akismet plugin for WordPress, which has been…

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Twitter: “What is it good for?”

By rickColosimo / April 28, 2009 / Comments Off on Twitter: “What is it good for?”

As someone who’s only more recently adopted Twitter as a tool, building on top of multiple blogs, Facebook, and LinkedIn, I’ve been consistently faced with two questions: Is there a specific model for using twitter that makes the most of the tool? How can folks following hundreds (thousands!) of people get anything done other than…

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Set work-home boundaries on Facebook

By rickColosimo / April 28, 2009 / Comments Off on Set work-home boundaries on Facebook

A breakfast networking group I attend regularly returns to the topic of social networking tools/sites and where people can or should draw lines to separate their business and personal lives. It’s a common sentiment that “I don’t want clients seeing old college photos.” This article via the Personal Branding Blog deals expressly with these issues…

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Way cool photos of NYC

By rickColosimo / April 27, 2009 / Comments Off on Way cool photos of NYC

NYC street photo with only children I really liked these très cool pictures, photoshop montages of NYC streetcorner photos. Not time lapse but time-space compression photography. It’s a technique I’ve never seen before, and it brings the street photo into a whole new world. I could imagine different photos using the same technique as public…

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