Comments on: Highly Informative Indeed!

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:00:12 +0000

Intellectually drafted article. seems to grab attention at once.The writer has a good knowledge of the subject and makes reading interesting.

Red: This is the real thing; how ironic. I neutered it :)

By: JR

JR — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:47:31 +0000

BTW JR, nice site – Rod Smallwood AND Sharon “WTF!” Osbourne commenting on one post! Nice! Just a shame I cant comment too, but hey.

You should be able to comment now Matt, I was bombarded by spam this past week so the comments were switched off.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:24:04 +0000

Khaled, I agree, and while it might’ve come off that way, I certainly wasn’t implying a complete one to one between design and desire to write. But it’s a strong factor for me, that’s certain.

By: khaled

khaled — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:47:11 +0000

If you’d asked me that question a few weeks ago I’d have agreed with you COMPLETELY. However somehow after just completing my recent redesign, I’m actually more spent than anything else. I will say that I put more effort into my posts than I used to but that means that I don’t post the rubbish that I used to post about all the time. I think your enthusiasm goes in cycles.

Is it directly linked to your site design? I think it definitely helps, but I think there are a plethora of other factors that add and subtract to the actual drive for writing.

By: Jo�o Craveiro

Jo�o Craveiro — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:34:01 +0000

Well, I think it’s not odd at all; think about it this way: the is a huge discrepancy in the number of posts from blogs to blogs. Either because it has no way of counting the number of posts or because they don’t necessarily match the IDs, a spambot has no way of knowing where the “hot” (somehow recent) entries lie. On the other hand, starting from 1 and hitting some low IDs is a sure hit (these posts I mentioned are IDs 4 and 6).

In few words: a spambot cannot know where a blog ends, but it can guess, in few tries, where it began. ;)

(This suddenly hints me to a good spam preventing technique: starting a blog on a random ID somewhere between 1000 and 9999, or something like that…)

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:15:32 +0000

Yeah I do the same thing; for some reason all spam comments are left on older entries. Very odd.

By: Jo�o Craveiro

Jo�o Craveiro — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:16:51 +0000

Same thing happened to me some days ago, and I also posted on the subject.

A spambot full of convictions thought that it would be nice to state that “there is no theory of a God, of an author of nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my facilities” in a post on a redesign, and to present me with the short wisdom of “Nothing can be created from nothing” on a post on the first LGA775 Pentium processors.

The most interesting thing is: these spam comments went through by mere distraction. I have a plugin that automatically deactivates comments for posts older than 30 days (both these happened on posts that were more than 1 year old), and I unadvertedly deactivated it. With it active, I get NO COMMENT SPAM AT ALL. It doesn’t even make it to the mod queue…

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:12:26 +0000

BTW JR, nice site – Rod Smallwood AND Sharon “WTF!” Osbourne commenting on one post! Nice! Just a shame I cant comment too, but hey.

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:04:12 +0000

I can somewhat relate there Michael. I spent an entire frustrating weekend trying a new design for my blog (Dogmatic) and after hours deliberating on a new look and feel – I scrapped it all and went back to the old look.

IMO that’s not really wasted time, after all you were investigating new designs and found they didn’t work or you weren’t happy with them. Had you not done that you’d never have known.

By: Chris J. Davis

Chris J. Davis — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:46:14 +0000

As we were discussing before, I think that for both of us, a return to a more creative vibe is what is called for. Coding PHP and creating nifty configurable thingies is great and fun; but sometimes we need to let the technology be, and just create something beautiful.

I think we are both long overdue for that time.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:33:27 +0000

I can somewhat relate there Michael. I spent an entire frustrating weekend trying a new design for my blog (Dogmatic) and after hours deliberating on a new look and feel – I scrapped it all and went back to the old look. Unlike you however, the motivation is well in place to try something new – but the inspiration to excorcise the look and feel I am after – out of me and onto the Photoshop canvas – is driving me nuts!

Anyway, kudos on K2. I’ve enjoyed experimenting with it.

Regardless of how you feel creatively at the moment, keep up the good work.

By: 9x

9x — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:51:21 +0000

I find this to be a highly crafty and intriguing article. It highlights the intricate relationship between the subject and its essence. It is highly informative.

By: LiptonRod

LiptonRod — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:47:33 +0000

Amen Michael!
I love K2 but I miss the Bonsai.
Get comfy get creative and do what you do best!