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Natania told me the other day that some of our friends weren't getting updates to my blog via their RSS readers, and I realized that it might be due to the fact that they're still trying to follow my ancient LiveJournal. So I finally got off my ass and set up Movable Type to cross-post.

This was a little harder than I thought, however, because every Google search I did for "cross post movable type livejournal" or "posting movable type livejournal" or any other such combination resulted in a bunch of old and outdated plugins. I didn't feel like banging my head against a Perl script tonight, so they were right out.

Luckily, on the second Google SERP, I discovered CrossPoster from Movalog.

I'm not one hundred percent sure what Movalog is, but the author, Arvind Satyanarayan, knows his MT. Lots of cool plugins, not the least of which is CrossPoster, which was easy to configure, easy to use, and totally made my evening.

Posted by Michael Harrison at 10:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

From Paul Adams' article at Compiler:

As long as processing power, et cetera, is finite, just slowing down the bots is helpful, even if we can't block them altogether. But of course the bots will evolve, and so will the tests to stop them. There's no ideal solution. Would you rather be deluged with spam, or have to take a lengthy IQ test every time you post a comment on a blog?

Another reason I felt somewhat guilty about adding the Captcha to my site. Asking someone to type a rather simplistic six character phrase isn't along the lines of solving complex algebra, but it is a tiny roadblock in what makes blogs stand out from their dead paper progenitors: instant conversation.

How many roadblocks before it just becomes too much of a pain in the ass to deal with?

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Posted by Michael Harrison at 8:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)