Random thoughts on a slow day
Dan Gillmor points to the posting at UC Berkeley for a dean of the graduate school of journalism. The third sentence made me smile: The School offers a master's degree program that prepares students for the highest levels of journalism. Most journalists know that a master's degree is about as useful to reach the highest levels of journalism as an Allen wrench is. Oops, did I just screw my chances?
Munir Umrani points to an L.A. Times story about blogging economists. He's thinking that they might have helped him had blogs been around when he was a student. I'm wondering why, with all the professors and instructor associated with the colleges and universities here, more of them don't have blogs. Seems a natural fit, talking about developments in your field. Thank goodness for David. Am I missing others?
Update I: Howard Owens points to a Guardian story on comment spam being generated by humans in third world countries typing in the numbers and letters to bypass spam filters. Hardly a day goes by when this blog isn't attacked by spammers who've gotten past our numerical filtering system. I've banned 389 IP addresses -- nearly 300 of them since May. Now it makes sense.
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Though I'd have to say, in the nicest way possible, that your CAPTCHA above (the "numerical filter") isn't the toughest; one can imagine a machine-based attack working on it.
Where are the IPs based? Is there any geographic pattern to them?
Charles (who wrote the Guardian story)
Posted on November 27, 2006 7:21 AM
Great piece, Charles. I know that the coding is easy to crack, but still....
I don't know that I would know how to tell where the IPs are based. They seem to be promoting French porn sites. Just this morning I got two written in Chinese, or what I assume to be Chinese.
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Posted on November 27, 2006 8:49 AM