Liz Lawley reports getting hammered with comment spam on her blog tonight. If you’re running your blog on MT, you need to have MT Blacklist. It’s easy to install, and it works like a charm. I’ve just updated the Wordherders’ blacklist, which I’ll link to here.
I agree with Mike that we should just start with a blog, “since that’s the method all parties seem familiar with.” If you would like to participate in a group blog on sharing teaching resources and creating resources collaboratively, email me at ghw[at]wordherders[dot]net with a username and password. I’ll add you to the list of authors on a blog I’ve set up.
[In case you’re just joining us, dear reader, here are my first post and second post on the subject.]
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But “Winston” thinks we’re all incestuous Marxists, apparently because I use the word “collective” to describe the Wordherders and because we comment on each other’s blogs. I would respectfully suggest that inattention to detail and nuance is more likely to sink one’s chances on the job market than academic prejudice against conservatives.
By the way, I use the word “collective” in the sense of “a collective body or whole” as in this example from 1655: “A Jewell (sometimes taken for a single precious stone) is properly a collective of many” (taken from online OED).
If you’re going to San Diego and you want to do the blogger meetup thing, email me (ghw at wordherders dot net) to get my cell phone number. I’ll be staying at the Marriott.
Okay, after I’ve created accounts for my students in Movable Type and one of them changes her password and then forgets it, how do I get it back for her? Or how do I reset her password?
Update: MT-Medic did the trick for me.