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Automattic Account Management

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Alistair

Automattic, the fine folk behind the WordPress blogging engine, wordpress.com and Akismet have started merging accounts between wordpress.com and Gravatar. Toward the start of 2006, I signed up for an account with wordpress.com and for obvious reasons, I’ve never needed … Continue reading →

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Matt Mullenweg Changes Domain

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Alistair

Blogging master and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has changed domain. Matt has been blogging for the last seven years under http://photomatt.net, which was an appropriate domain at the the time. Early on in the piece, Matt would post photos regularly … Continue reading →

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Akismet Losing Its Mojo?

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Alistair

I have long praised the free spam fighting service Akismet but yesterday a horribly obvious spam comment wasn’t filtered which is very unusual. I’ll include the comment here so people can see what I’m referring to: Name: Armond Site: http://groups.google.com/group/otekal/web/free-bestiality-sex-stories … Continue reading →

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