Check Your Feeds: Latest WordPress 2.5x Blanks RSS

Sorry if it’s seemed a bit quiet round here recently. The latest WordPress versions 2.5.0/2.5.1 have a bug which kills off some RSS addresses. If you look at the feed URL in a browser it will have no posts there or errors. It may have done the same to your blog too, so have a Continue reading →

Free Tool For Google Malware & Phishing Blacklists: Launching SERPGuard

SERPGuard is a free alert service that checks the Google Safe Browsing Blacklists for your domain(s). You may create an account, log in and add all your sites into one simple interface. If our system detects any of your URLs on the Google phishing or malware blacklists, we will send you an RSS message and Continue reading →

Do You Want Some Followed Links From Twitter?

Here’s a quick link opportunity I’ll share with you. Quite a few people have pondered about getting links from the uber-popular Twitter. I had much the same thoughts as NickyCakes when I first saw that the only followed links in the service pointed to the posting applications. Strangely enough there is a much easier link Continue reading →

What Everybody Ought to Know About SPF Records

Hopefully you’ve already heard of SPF records, one of the new ways to fight spam across the internet. When a mail server receives an email it can check the DNS zone of the sending domain for a SPF record. That will tell them if the email did indeed come from that domain name, using an Continue reading →

Encyclopaedia Britannica Opens Online Community

Britannica have announced in their blog that they will open up their online encyclopedia to online contributions, placing them into direct competition with Wikipedia. This new initiative will mean a complete redesign of the site. Under their current subscription model, only a small part of their content is published on the web. They intend to Continue reading →