Comment deletion is a prickly issue. Here, we’re talking about deleting human-added comments (no bot spam here) that are too promotional or deceptively promotional (e.g. promotion of products you’ve raised in your post, but in an unrelated or deceptive manner), are very offensive (as in filled with extremities, racial abuse, etc.), and the like.
No […]

Just a couple of days back (or is it yesterday?), the Indian blogosphere, and to an extent the international blogosphere, started simmering with the news that the Indian government was clamping down on several “radical” sites - most notable among them being Blogger, Geocities (and even Typepad it seems).
Some commenters are asserting that this is […]

The One Question Interview series Darren created recently has introduced a number of interesting issues to me. But the one particular issue I want to talk about now is the one raised by Darren’s interview with Guy Kawasaki: Is it better to start a personal web site, with a blog as one dedicated component of […]

…almost. Compared to the 3.35 million figure for May 2005, the total of 8.68 million Japanese blogs at the end of March 2006 represents a 2.6-fold increase.
More statistically-minded bloggers would probably have guessed this rate of growth months before, when David Silfry published his April 2006 State of the Blogosphere report - where 35% of […]

The most recent Gallup Lifestyle Survey reports that growth in the number of US blog readers was zero, or perhaps even negative. But that probably isn’t as bad as it sounds given that the survey’s results also showed that Americans’ overall online habits haven’t changed much over the past two years.
Then there is the increase […]

This topic is so out of place that I had to create a misc. subcategory of blogging just for it. When we think of Adult Blogs, we generally point our minds at splogs (i.e. spam blogs), and indeed, most adult blogs out there are splogs, as shown by Kailash Nadr’s banning of almost all adult […]