The Importance of Transparency

Several months ago, Wired ran a great article on how companies are embracing radical transparency as a new approach to public relations. The list wasn't just a bunch of hip new Web 2.0 companies either. Microsoft operates Channel 9 as a way to give folks a glimpse into how their software business really […]

Website Updates: Subscribe to Comments, Related Posts, and Behind the Scenes Stuff

I've added a few new features over the last few weeks that I hope will prove helpful in finding nifty stuff on our site and participating more fully. For about two weeks now, I've had the Subscribe to Comments plugin installed and running. This plugin will send you an e-mail when someone responds to […]

Spam Wars: Making Spam Illegal in Utah

Much like the woman in the famous Monty Python skit, I don't like spam. Unlike her, I'm talking about the almost unstoppable flow of unsolicited email messages advertising new mortgages, "male enhancement" pills, online gaming and a host of other shady operations. This also includes spam from political parties and activists that don't seem to […]

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The Day the Music Died

Your speakers are working; it's Yahoo! Radio that isn't. In protest of exorbitant new royalty fees set to go into effect Real Soon Now(TM), thousands of Internet radio broadcasters are protesting today with a day of silence. Their beef? That the 4-5% royalty rate is set to spike to anywhere from 50-300% within […]

I have a Honeypot and I’m not afraid to use it.

Spammers, harvesters and other ne'er-do-wells, beware:

That's right, you're On Notice now.

Has Technorati Ranking Become Irrelevant?

Web folks are fascinated with statistics. We love to see how many visits our blogs get, how they get there, who's linking to us and what browser everyone is using. In our quest for meaningful data concerning who's reading and paying attention to our writings, we'll pour over numbers from AWStats, Google's PageRank and […]

Restyling The Template

One of the best parts of WordPress is the ability to customize to your heart's content. You can either go as basic as downloading and installing a new theme or plugin or as extensive as re-writing individual components. Today I made some touch-ups to try and clean our cluttered interface and add useful features.

Spam Karma Delivers Payback

Since the move to the new server, I've been rather disappointed with how Akismet, the spam filtering plugin, had been performing. It had taken up a nasty habit of flagging almost all legit comments as spam leading me to have to continuously check the spam queue and fish them out. I started doing some searching […]

Luddite Legislators Make Utah a Laughingstock

There are some distinctions you don't want. Utah managed to grab the dubious honors of being named in 3 of the top 10 worst Internet laws ever, all of them making the top 5. So what exactly did we do to make this dishonor roll?