LinkedIn will be adding photos tomorrow. Do I see a small crack in their conservative website? Stay tuned for my appropriately conservative photo.
News courtesy of TechCrunch
Update 09.30.07: I’m conservative’d.
One of the sites I work on, Songwriter101, has been experiencing problems in the forums- Chinese drive-by spammers. The forum moderators had been deleting posts for weeks by users called shoesnew, Hu, ch, shoeman and the like. They were all posting about the same topic- deals on sneakers, athletic wear, etc.
My team was pulling out their hair. “Of all things… why shoes?? Do these spammers think that songwriters have a thing for purchasing new shoes? I could understand if they were spamming guitar strings or something, but shoes???”
I asked if there were any good deals.. and then knew I had to deliver a solution. After playing the cat and mouse game for some time with suspending the userids and banning the IPs, it was time for something more drastic.
A quick Google search pulled up a great site with complete IP blocks in several formats. A bit of htaccess tweakery with the CIDR files and now, we’re Chinese spam-free!
(I’m quite proud of the ”error message.")
From the moderators: “And… today is the first day all week of spam-free moderating. Thank you!! ...enjoy the absence of sneaker ads.”
Will Shipley posted a well-argued opinion piece on the state of affairs at Apple, Inc.
“Apple has to always remember that simply making money CANNOT be its point of existence. The point of any company should be to make customers want to give it money, NOT to get money from customers. It’s a subtle distinction that is the difference between good and evil.”
You tell ‘em, Will.
I guess it’s ok to drive a Lexis SUV yellow cab if you’re going to be pulling 12-hour shifts 6 days a week. Do other cabbies find this pretentious?
I spotted this one on Central Park East in the 70’s.
