Comments on: Well, I never! http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/04/19/well-i-never/ Katharine Beutner's blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:09:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: mamacita http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/04/19/well-i-never/#comment-16180 mamacita Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:07:22 +0000 http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/?p=104#comment-16180 Yep, now I see them. I was just about to develop a migraine when I looked for them last night, which may have been part of my problem! Yep, now I see them. I was just about to develop a migraine when I looked for them last night, which may have been part of my problem!

]]> By: Katharine Beutner http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/04/19/well-i-never/#comment-16158 Katharine Beutner Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:06:55 +0000 http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/?p=104#comment-16158 Link-farmers are spammers who plant links on other people's webpages to generate hits or higher Google rankings for the sites they're linking to (usually porn or something). The exploit script this person used was a little program that pinged my blog admin login until it got enough information to log in, even though it didn't have my password, and then the program-robot edited my old posts to include hidden spam links, and started producing new posts with hidden spam links, too. Annoying! The NEH and HASTAC links are down under "other sites of interest." They show up for me there -- do they not show up for you? Link-farmers are spammers who plant links on other people’s webpages to generate hits or higher Google rankings for the sites they’re linking to (usually porn or something). The exploit script this person used was a little program that pinged my blog admin login until it got enough information to log in, even though it didn’t have my password, and then the program-robot edited my old posts to include hidden spam links, and started producing new posts with hidden spam links, too. Annoying!

The NEH and HASTAC links are down under “other sites of interest.” They show up for me there — do they not show up for you?

]]> By: mamacita http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/04/19/well-i-never/#comment-16157 mamacita Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:49:22 +0000 http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/?p=104#comment-16157 For the web-inept: what are link-farmers and exploit scripts? And have you added the links to the NEH Office and the HASTAC, cause they don't show up yet. Sorry I missed your call this afternoon. For the web-inept: what are link-farmers and exploit scripts? And have you added the links to the NEH Office and the HASTAC, cause they don’t show up yet. Sorry I missed your call this afternoon.

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