Tech Blog Highlights: Google SearchWiki, Mollom
I'm doing a little morning reading at some of my favorite Internet spots. A couple of this morning's IT related posts that caught my attention:
- Rich Hoeg (eContent) has created a very nice tutorial/screencast on Google's SearchWiki. Personally, I can't decide if this is a good move for Google or not. It seems to me the biggest benefit of Google is that you go there, do a search, find the link you want, and get out. Internet junkies like me already are too distracted with places like Digg.com that I like Google's single purpose pages. When I'm on a search mission, I don't need the collateral damage.
- Dries Buytaert explains the weaknesses of serving your own CAPTCHA to fight spam and the benefits of Mollom hosting CAPTCHAs for you. He also discusses the dirty business of comment spam where services will leave comment spam at sites like yours and mine for a fee. As I commented on Dries blog, comment spam makes this world a scary place for website owners. I'm glad we have Mollom!
About the CMS Enthusiast
Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn more about content management systems without the sales pitch. Although Bryan has been active in the content management community for a number of years, please do not call him a CMS expert. Bryan's preference is to be labeled a CMS enthusiast.
Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government. Away from the computer he enjoys his family, bicycling, camping, and the outdoors.
