Aug - 23rd

Breaking News: Google Borks the Earth

Posted at 4:22 pm | Filed Under Google, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness, search engines

Want to explore the entire planet from your computer? Normally all anyone wanting to do so would have to do would be to trot on over to Google Earth, download and install their application, and off globe trotting they could go. Today, unfortunately, those who do not already have the program installed are apparently out [...]

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Aug - 17th

I Finally Figured Out Who Jason Calacanis Reminds Me Of

Posted at 8:32 am | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, nerdiness, scams

In all of the discussions and posts about Jason Calacanis, whenever and wherever he replied to people calling him on his bullshit, it always had the same tired familiar ring to it. His statements have that tone that all scam artists and con men have utilized throughout the ages, professing their innocence despite the preponderance [...]

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Jun - 15th

Dear Matt Cutts, What’s Your Take On Addon Domains?

Posted at 2:58 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, nerdiness

Today Matt Cutts answered a question from “Land Lubber”, Colorado. Land Lubber asks:
What’s your take on “addon domains”? Does Google penalize someone for having one or more addon domains on their main website, (or if they’re self hosting)? e.g. 2, 5, or 10 all coming from the same IP address, would that be bad? – [...]

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Jun - 14th

Rackspace Hacked Clients, Check Your Databases: Wordpress “wp_optimize” Backdoor In wp_options Table

Posted at 8:16 pm | Filed Under Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, how-to, nerdiness

Just finished cleaning up a hacked client whose website is hosted on Rackspace Cloud hosting. It is the second one within the past few weeks, although the first one was actually hosting on Laughing Squid, which happens to use Rackspace Cloud. I had discovered that there were a large number of people all on the [...]

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May - 14th

GoDaddy’s Suggestion For The Cause Of Their Hacks And Their Community Blog – Can You Smell The Irony?

Posted at 3:52 pm | Filed Under Social Media, WTF, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, customer service, lackofmeds, nerdiness, web design

Yesterday I blogged about the hacking situation with GoDaddy hosting and a customer service call I had with them concerning some evidence I had found. While it is true that as this has progressed GoDaddy has widened their scope in investigating what the underlying cause of these hacks are, initially they claimed that the issue [...]

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Mar - 18th

Test of Wordpress’s Default Slug Redirect: 301 or 302?

Posted at 10:06 am | Filed Under SEO, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness

Just a quick test to see if Wordpress by defaults redirects slug changes using a 301 or 302 redirect. The original url for this post is:
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/test-of-wordpress-default-slug-redirect-301-or-302/
and I am going to change it to:
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/wordpress-redirect-302-or-302/

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Mar - 18th

Google’s God Complex [PIC]

Posted at 7:30 am | Filed Under Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness

Based on what Google chose to put in the #1 position for this query, it looks like Google is developing a teensy bit of an overinflated ego:
 

 
Megalomania, anyone?

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Mar - 10th

Dear Jason Calacanis: This Isn’t An “Absurd Microscope”

Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams

Jason Calacanis replied to my post from yesterday. In it he discusses how he is indeed deleting many of the spammy pages that I had pointed out. Some, like the duplicate content doorway pages, he continues to defend. Either way, progress is being made.
However, he still kinda kills it by tossing in at the end [...]

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Mar - 3rd

Don’t Think “If” You Will Get Hacked, Or Even “When” – Think In Terms Of “How Often”

Posted at 11:21 am | Filed Under Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness

The following “guest post” was a comment left on “How To Completely Clean Your Wordpress Installation” by a gentleman named Daniel J. Dick. He makes some excellent points, and due to it’s length I decided to feature the comment in it’s own post, rather than approve it in place. Enjoy.
I think Nick sums up how [...]

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Feb - 25th

Scientology Suspended For “Strange Activity”

Posted at 5:01 pm | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, freedom-of-speech, lackofmeds, nerdiness

I don’t know about the rest of you, but for some reason I find this oddly poetic.
 

(Click to enlarge.)
 
For those who can’t read it, it’s from http://twitter.com/scientology, and states:
Sorry, the profile you were trying to view has been suspended due to strange activity.
Yeah, like that’s a surprise!

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