Bloglogic.net will be Relaunching Soon

This site will relaunch sometime on June 26/06.

Here are some details.

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New Site goes BETA Tomorrow

I’ll be opening up a new site to the public tomorrow around noon, EST. Then, on Monday, July 02/06 the site will officially launch.

The site itself is not what makes the whole thing special though. It’s the purpose. Bloglogic.net as we know it now will no longer exist as a standalone blog network. Instead, it will be absorbed into something a lot bigger, better and more diverse. Read more »

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BlogHerald.com gets Snazzy New Look

Just popped over to the Blog Herald and discovered Matt and Chris have given the place a facelift.

The newspaper/portal/blog look will take some getting used to but I’m starting to like it already.

Nice work guys.

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Gadgetizer Forums Gone

That’s right, I deleted the forums from the Gadgetizer site. I kept going there to post and had to spend my time deleting mortgage spam and bogus users who only signed up to get links on the member list pages.

It’s nearly impossible to stay ahead of it all. Spam is like a disease that chips away at any immune systems you throw at it and you eventually have to give in or walk away from being too tired to fight it any more.

To hell with people who want links for nothing. From now on they have to earn them or pay for them.

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Gadgetizer and the Museum of Hoaxes

Well folks, last year when I flipped the lights on at Gadgetizer.com, if you had told me the site would eventually end up in the Museum of Hoaxes, I would have snorted coffee all over my keyboard.

But Tiago did it. Here’s the entry.

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No Holds Barred: AOL/WIN Blatently Rips Off Digg.com

Ok, I’ve been outta touch with the happenings in the blogosphere over the past few months. Actually, that’s not true: I’ve been purposefully avoiding addressing any ‘issues’ related to blogging because it’s just too expensive when crybabies retaliate and sue, shut down hosting accounts, whatever…

But this last major announcement makes my blood boil

This post by Darren Rowse of Problogger.net (and I love the guy and his blog) brought it to my attention.

Jason Calacanis, now an AOL employee and former owner of Weblogs Inc. is heading up the repurposing/relaunch of Netscape.com - as a blatent ripoff of the Digg.com model with a few revisions here and there to make it appear different.

Alert: Foul Language beyond this point. People who take offense to cursing and foul language should not click this link… Read more »

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Disgusting Porn Blog

Ok, a few of you may remember a site I was working on around this time last year. It was a mild adult site that featured mostly celebrity aahhh… slipups

Well, the biggest problem I had with that site was that at the time, I couldn’t find a way to monetize the 3500+ unique visitors per day it was getting from the search engines. Well, I’ve found a way and I’m re-opening the site before the end of June ‘06.

Prediction: by Aug 1st, ‘06, bloglogic will be adding another dedicated server to it’s arsenal. Bout time dontchya think?

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Combatting comment spam again

After a solid week of spammers throttling the Gadgetizer.com comment forms to the point where the server was slowing down, I went and set up a script to automatically close commenting on posts more than 10 days old. Both Tiago and I were worn out logging in each day and having to delete dozens of spam comments that somehow slipped past the word filters. Something had to be done.

It sucks because a lot of the older posts were still getting occasional comments from people coming in through search engines, but now at least we only have to deal with deleting a handful of spam on 30-40 posts rather than 600.

*Sigh* I was hoping it wouldn’t come to this.

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Vacation Time

I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off to take care of a few things. I guess you could call it a vacation, but I’d like to think of it as a break from the stresses that have been building up over the past few months.

If anyone needs to contact me for something important, please use the contact forms on one of the bloglogic sites to send me an email. I’ll check in every few days. Other than that, I’ll be out of touch.

See you all when I’m more relaxed and stress free

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Wordpress 2.0.3 Released

Matt just announced the latest upgrade to Wordpress.

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