News related to Blat.co.za
Posted in Blat on Jul 12th, 2010
About three years ago I joined Hub Pages. I created a few Hubs, and then, as is pretty normal for me, I forgot all about it
Over the last few months I’ve been receiving emails from Hub Pages, urging me to “refresh” my Hubs. In my usual way of dealing with emails, it was […]
Posted in Blat on May 24th, 2010
I have recently deactivated quite a few blogs where the “bloggers” have simply been copying and pasting Ezine Articles.
There are a few reasons why I have deactivated these blogs: -
1. If you don’t have the imagination to write your own content, then you probably shouldn’t be blogging.
2. It is unfair to other bloggers on Blat, […]
Posted in Blat on May 17th, 2010
Technorati has been around for ages, and for those of you who don’t know, Technorati is a search engine especially for blogs.
Technorati recently went through a bit of a bad patch. I think that most of us assumed that it was dying - Flooded with spammer type junk and useless rubbish from idiots who like […]
Posted in Blat on Apr 28th, 2010
A few months ago, while I was going through the process of trying to get to the bottom of why the Blat server kept falling over, I unhooked Blat from Amatomu. This was mainly due to the fact that the Amatomu server spent more of its life in “mumble mode” than doing anything useful. At […]
Posted in Blat on Mar 17th, 2010
I have just been through the Blat database and deleted literally tens of thousands of spam comments!
PLEASE DO NOT APPROVE SPAM COMMENTS POSTED ON YOUR BLOG!
If you don’t know what comment spam is, please read this: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_in_blogs
If you can’t make any sense of the Wikipedia information, comment spam is easy to identify. Most often […]
Posted in Blat on Mar 16th, 2010
A sitemap is a method of providing information, with regard to pages that make up a website, to various search engines. You can learn more about sitemaps here: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_map
In the past the Blat sitemap functionality has treated all blogs as being equal. Of course this is unfair to those who blog regularly. So, in […]
Posted in Blat on Mar 15th, 2010
As is pretty normal for me, I do things, and when they work I move onto something new and more interesting. I guess Blat has been one of those things that I’ve left behind, neglecting it for shiny new toys
Over the last few months Blat has been experiencing problems, with the server losings […]
Posted in Blat on Mar 11th, 2010
Yesterday afternoon, after making changes to the binary logging (as reported in the previous post), the Blat database went down again. So, last night I spent about three hours looking at various settings on the MySQL database. I tweaked a few settings, and was running a process monitor to try and figure out exactly what […]
Posted in Blat on Mar 9th, 2010
For the last few months I’ve been struggling to work out why Blat keeps displaying a “Error establishing a database connection” message. It’s been a real nightmare to try and track down, because the error message would only be displayed intermittently, and it would only happen every two or three days. Sometimes the Blat server […]
Posted in Blat on Nov 24th, 2009
A new (I only found it this morning, so it’s new to me) blog aggregation site, similar to the now dead Amatomu site, has been opened up at http://myscoop.co.za/index.php. Maybe some of you would like to add your blogs?
myScoop still looks a bit rough, and it probably still needs some work, but hey, it’ll never […]
