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I am a physicist by training, financial risk management consultant by day, father by night, and a geek of several kinds.

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On-Topic Spams

I miss the days when it's easy to tell apart spam comments. Gone are the day of good old body part enlarger. Lately, about a third of comment spams look so real that I can't fault Mollom for not catching them. If not for the links to ad farms, there would be no way to tell these are indeed spam.

Take for example this comment made on a page about K2 theme for Drupal.

Thanks for the theme, still trying to learn drupal

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Zemanta suggests related content as you blog

Zemanta is an interesting idea. It works as a Firefox add-on that regularly analyze the text you are writing and fetch related images and links. When trying in WordPress 2.3, the add-on integrates into the writing page tighly. The suggestions, on the other hand, could be improved.

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