I just noticed why trackbacks have been failing on my site. The plugin I have been using to prevent comment spam, BotCheck have been stopping trackbacks.
In my quest to solve this someone recommended using a plugin called Bad Behaviour instead.
So, I have just deactivated BotCheck and activated Bad Behaviour. Trackbacks should be back working fine, and I will report back later on how this new plugin prevents both comment spam and trackback spam.
It never stops fascinating me where I can reach using the internet. I have done lots of presentations and it is always a thrill to comunicate to many people. The biggest presentation I have done so far was in front of about 1200 people.
That is nothing compared to the amount of people I reach with my blog. And, even doing international presentations while working for the consulting company Accenture, I never reached out to the same divere audience that I do through eirikso.com
My little comic strip about Bob the Millionaire is one of my most popular posts. I have fun using Babelfish and friends mastering other languages to try to understand what people have to say about my ramblings. My comic has even been translated into French. My wife speaks French and could confirm that the translation was well done.
And, I can even use my own blog to get help when more than 10 000 users reach my blog from a Duch web site and I don’t know what they are saying…
Now, I have some problems with this one and this one. Still, it is interesting to see that people from all over the world reach my page!
I know that the web is crowded with unreliable info. I know how to always check a story from several sources before I make up my mind. However, I actually trust some of the more serious web sites. Or, maybe not!
I mentioned some roumors about Microsoft and a company called Claria a while ago. I read the story on Ed Bott. Now the story has reached out and it seems like it suddenly, out of nothing has been confirmed that Microsoft actually has bought Claria. Apparently BoingBoing is as trustworthy as an average TukTuk driver in Bangkok.
Ed Bott has summed this crappy piece of journalism up here.
This is actually even more scary than the Microsoft – Claria story itself. It means that I can not trust one of my favourite web sites, BoingBoing?
And the price for the most stupid legal threat goes to restaurant Lehtovaara in Helsinki.
Herkko Hietanen is a lawyer specialized within IT-law. He had a very bad experience at the Lehtovaara and posted a letter to the restaurant after the unlucky visit. They did not answer, so Herkko posted the letter on his blog. A while later this letter is hit number two on Google if you do a search for the restaurant. So, the owner of the restaurant sends Herkko a legal threat demanding (among other things) that he should remove the letter from the web and pay him around 80 000 euro in damage.
Was that a smart move? I guess not. The case have already reached BoingBoing under the headline “Helsinki’s Lehtovaara: Crappy service and a bullying owner“. And, as Herkko states on his blog:
They apparently hadn’t done any background checks. I have taught law and technology in several universities, I am a founding member of one of the biggest cyber rights organization in Europe and have defended publicly digital freedom of expression. Do they really think that they have a winning strategy? I am sure that many people would have rushed to take down the content. Not me. I will see their bluff.
Lehtovaara bring it on!
If there existed a list of the five worst people to sue for a case like this, Mr. Herkko would be on it. Yes, bring it on! This could lead to some great entertainment!
“It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons”
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Blogging just reached a new height. Gunhild Sørensen of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation just did a spectacular ride in a paraglider. All the way she posted directly to the blog at the Norwegian Broadcasting Coropration’s web site. The site is in Norwegian, but the pictures speak for themselves…
From the blog:
“Now we are going to do some 360s. Øyvind (the instructor) asks me to hold tight to my mobile. This involves some serious G-forces”
Technical:
She is using a Nokia 6630 mobile and sends her messages and pictures to a blog powered by Easy Moblog.
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