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Word Content: Bloggers not publishing original content anymore?

Posted on December 24th, 2007 at 20:51 in Internet, Blogging, Thoughts. No Replies.

Just recently, I came across this website. It’s called Word Content, and its main purpose is to give you, for a fee, unique articles to publish on your website. When I saw it, I was surprised by the concept: if blogging is all about people expressing their personal opinion and publishing it for the whole world to read, why would you want to buy articles for your blog? So I searched for an explanation in this post.

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Announcing Chameleon

Posted on January 27th, 2007 at 21:37 in Internet, Blogging, Projects, Chameleon. No Replies.

Today, I officially release Chameleon, a blogging platform focused on customizability and extensibility. Its first public version, version 0.5.5 Beta, comes with quite a lot of functionality already included, but with even more still missing. Along the way to 1.0, this functionality will be added, growing Chameleon into a mature blogging solution.

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Apologies and a status update 2008/03/03 20:46

From February 18th until February 26th 2008, this blog was down. The next day, my host, Clawz.com, told me that they plan to stop offering the free (ad-supported) hosting which I’ve been enjoying for some years now. I have 30 days to move out.

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JavaScript: Finding primes 2007/10/16 21:14

In the spirit of one of my previous posts, I’m releasing a new JavaScript library extracted out of code I wrote for Project Euler. This time, it’s a library to find primes and to check numbers for their primality.

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Website hacked 2007/09/09 21:05

Yesterday, this site was unreachable for a few hours, and instead redirected to some random blog on Blogspot. Apparently, someone was able to hack this website, and replaced the index.php with a modified one. I suspect the hacker used an exploit in WordPress, since I was still running WordPress 2.0.2, and didn’t bother to upgrade. Lesson learned.

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JavaScript: finding the least common multiple 2007/08/22 15:51
On keybindings: marrying keyboard and mouse-based navigation 2007/07/30 21:56

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You maybe already heard about the nofollow tag, invented by Google to prevent spam. In fact, it doesn’t prevent or decrease spam at all, and a lot of criticism has been expressed against it. Some of the reasons why you shouldn’t use nofollow are summed up at NoNoFollow. In this post, I’ll explain how to simply remove the nofollow tag from WordPress, without the need to install a plugin.

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