I have been running Defensio for a week now.

253 positive spam comments and only 8 false positive hits. Not bad in my book as the current accuracy is at 97.05%.

What I seem to be loving about Defensio is it’s simplicity in spam management.

• Color code comments based on spaminess
• Obvious spam is hidden
• Spam statistics made available through the WordPress admin page.
• Enhanced statistics, reports and graphs accessible through the Defensio Account Management page on the Defensio’s site.
• RSS feeds for spam and comments.

Spam is something every Blog owner has to deal with on a daily basis. I had 253 positive spam and only 18 legitimate comments. Everyday I spend a few minutes going through the possible spam list and comb out the false positives. Askimet was good but Defensio went one step further by incorporating the color codes and hiding confirmed spam. This dramatically reduced the amount of data I had to go trough now thus improving my admin experience.

The RSS feed option for comments and spam further simplifies access to your spam and comments. Everything through Google reader for me.

The Enhanced statistic made available through the Account Management page on Defensio’s site is also pretty neat. Not the most important but admin’s love looking at historically data presented through use of graphs and diagrams. Simplification again.

Source: Defensio

Source: Defensio Blog

Defensio is the latest comment spam filtering service for blogs and web applications. Blogging platforms currently supported are WordPress, PixelPost, Umbraco, Drupal, Mephisto, Movable Type and TextPattern. Web applications can see integration through the following platforms, Ruby On Rails, .Net, Java, PHP and Python.

Currently, the only big player out there doing the same is Askimet. Askimet surprisingly was very positive about the new competitor on the block.

Quoted from them, read more here.

It’s hard to have a market with only one player.

Denfensio and Askimet both use centralized APIs to validate comment spams but Denfensio currently goes a bit further with some additional features.

• Spam quarantine sorted by spaminess
• Background color applied to spam comments to increase ease-of-identification
• Spam comments collapsed (and restorable) to allow for easy and efficient navigation
• Very obvious spam can be hidden from view
• Performance statistics provided to show how Defensio is doing on your blog

Defensio is a replacement for Askimet but I don’t see this happening anytime soon and Askimet has been around for sometime now. It’s going to be hard to get users to switch.

The latest plugin for Defensio can be downloaded here if you would like to take it for a spin. I’ve installed it at home today so it’s going to take sometime to come to a conclusion to see which path I will follow. For now Askimet works best for me.

Source : Defensio

Source : Askimet

I was researching on the net last night and stumbled upon this post at DoshDosh. It talks about how to best utilize the various sponsored blogging services available today. 17 in total. The services covered are PayPerPost, ReviewMe ,SponsoredReview and 15 others.

My blog is still new and so am I to the whole blogging scene. I have to work hard for some time before I consider start looking at advertising on my blog.

For now I’m thinking of looking at sponsered posts. I think it will help me discipline myself in the blogging space by forcing me to blog frequently and with quality.

Are you into sponsored post? Tell me bout them…

Source: DoshDosh

You thought it will never happens to you but when it does are you prepared?

HongKiat.com was defaced yesterday. He lost his database and 2-3 days of posts.

Hong Kiat’s Fix:

1. Upgrade to WordPress 2.2.1

2. Restore the backup of the database. He was lucky to have one.

I visit Hong Kiat.com  almost everyday, his posts are quite good. It’s to know that he is back online.

Lesson to learn:

Make sure to always upgrade when a security patch is released. We don’t live in a perfect world anymore where people are nice and decent. Your best friend is prevention.

Giving away a Nintendo Wii, that’s what John Chow is offering. I would really like to have one of those sweet looking Wii.

John Chow dot com is blog that helps you make money online .

The Wii is sponsored by 1234Pens.com and they make promotional pens .