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Jun - 24th

How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation

Posted at 10:11 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, how-to, web design

Getting hacked sucks, plain and simple. It can affect your rankings, cause your readership to be exposed to virus and trojan attacks, make you an unwilling promoter to subject material you may not actually endorse, and in many cases cause the loss of valuable content. However, once it happens it is usually best to [...]

Jun - 20th

Passwords That Are Easy To Remember But Impossible To Guess

Posted at 9:57 am | Filed Under blogthropology

For most people, changing passwords is little bit of a pain in the ass. One of the main reasons for this is that so many people have their favorite passwords, and a fear of not being able to remember the new ones. System administrators always suggest using passwords that will be difficult to guess, [...]

Jun - 18th

EasyWP WordPress Installer – Cause There Ain’t No Such Thing As “Too Easy”

Posted at 8:30 am | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, coding, how-to, nerdiness

Let’s face it… generally speaking, installing WordPress is not exactly an arduous task. It’s designed to be relatively easy, allowing pretty much anyone to set up a blog of their own, regardless of their technical expertise. For the most part, WordPress succeeds at this. However,

Jun - 10th

CNN Refuses To Discuss Kucinich’s Articles Of Impeachment?

Posted at 7:48 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, Social Media, lackofmeds, scams, the prez

Last night Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. This would be, to most reasonable thinking persons, newsworthy. CNN, however,

Jun - 10th

Google Updates List Of Third-Party Ad Providers

Posted at 2:38 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds

Well, that was quick. For those of you not using my Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget, which automatically updates whenever Google changes their list of third-party ad providers, it’s time to update your privacy policies once again.
If you are already using the widget,

Jun - 5th

Did Kevin Rose Join A Gang???

Posted at 12:57 pm | Filed Under blogthropology

Last night in New York, social media giant Digg took over the Studio B nightclub, for an Internet Week New York party. In the midst of all the reveling,

Jun - 5th

AdSense Customer Service On New Feeds Question: Look It Up Yourself!

Posted at 12:26 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding

Recently Feedburner announced that they were integrating AdSense into the feeds. Great idea, but one thing they did not cover, nor could I find when searching AdSense help, was whether or not this would conflict with AdSense TOS if someone happened to be running another contextual advertising program on their site, and the feed [...]