Bloggers Buzz

Darren Rowse reveals that in the early hours of the morning ProBlogger was hacked and index pages replaced with a political message

They targeted index pages on a number of sites including ProBlogger, ProBlogger’s Job Boards, Digital Photography Blog and a number of other blogs that I’m associated with. “

Both Copyblogger and Thatedeguy have coverage of their experiences on the hacked site.

But the good news is that it goes to show you can’t keep a good blogger down and problogger is back up and going strong!

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Performancing’s Chris Garrett tackles how to attract bloggers:

If you really want to attract bloggers to come work with you then it is important to think about exactly what you are trying to achieve. “Attract” is the important word here. Bloggers will not beat down your door in American Idol stylee, you need to make your offer attractive.

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BusinessBlogWire has interviewed Dave Wright, a business Blogger at Stormlab and Bolder Blogs.

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Melissa Whitworth, the journalist behind the claims of copying a bloggers post for the telegraph has explained it was all A Terrible Misunderstanding:

I forwarded it to my boss at the Telegraphs website because I thought he would find it funny. Unfortunately somewhere along the line it was mistaken for my latest posting and published. It was not my latest posting. It has now been taken down from the Telegraph’s website as a result.

While the chain of events is plausible with the speed of events that electronic communications can move at and cock up at, it just seems a little odd never the less!

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After all the hype of being able to use WordPress as a CMS, blogHelper has posted 5 Reasons Not to Use WordPress As a CMS:

Im not saying WP cant work great as a more web site-ish CMS (Im devoting a whole series on Using WP as a CMS after all!), nor am I trying to be a wet blanket, but there are a few things you really should consider before taking the plunge.

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Akismet experienced some downtime yesterday:

The stats code introduced yesterday had a bug which only triggered about 24 hours after it had launched. It kicked in for different blogs at different times, but the result was that starting sometime last night you probably started to see really obvious spam getting past your Akismet filters.

All of our systems were up and running at the time, and spam was being correctly identified, which is why our monitoring systems didn’t notify us of the problem. However, there was extra junk being included with the response which broke the API call, which expects only “true” or “false”.

I’m really sorry about this, when things are working smoothly it’s easy to forget how much vile junk is actually being blocked day to day. I’m going to go through my blogs now and double-check that no spam actually got published, and I’d suggest other folks do the same. The “mass edit” mode under “Comments” should be useful for WordPress users.

I’ve also taken steps to make sure on the Akismet side this kind of error can’t happen again.

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Episode 5 of the WordPress Podcast has “gone to air” and covered the following:

* WordPress 2.0 has been downloaded over 1 million times!
* WordPress.com turns one year-old.
* Technorati’s state of the blogosphere.
* Interview with Jason Van Orden, host of GothamCast, Internet-based Business Mastery and the Podcasting Underground, and author of Promoting Your Podcast. Mentioned in the interview:
o How to Podcast Tutorial
o Tee Morris‘ Podcasting for Dummies companion podcast
o PodPress plug-in
o FeedBurner plug-in
o Podcast411
o The Daily Source Code

For more information and how to download run (don’t walk!) over to the WordPress Podcast

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Darren Rowse finishes his Persuasive Blogging Series with part 5, Closing the Deal:

The last step in the process to writing a persuasive blog post is to lead your readers to a point of commitment to the action that you’re asking them to take.

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