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Silas Notes

Stop Spam, Read Books

Posted by Doug Nelson on May 25, 2007

A great idea: reCAPTCHA uses the spam-filtering “type the words you see” technique to get site users to transcribe old books for the Internet Archive. Ideas like this are what make the internet all warm and fuzzy.

( via the ever-helpful LifeHacker )

Subtle Touch in Google Reader

Great design in a very small (545 bytes) package
Posted by Jacob on May 22, 2007

I use Google Reader to read my RSS feeds. I’m subscribed to 173 feeds and in the past thirty days I’ve read scanned 7,750 items; I’ve probably read more like 6,000 items or about 200 items per day.
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Kintera may open up

A rumour, but an encouraging one
Posted by Jacob on May 10, 2007

This would be big news! Allan Benamer over at Confessions of a Non-Profit IT Director is heaaring that Kintera may open up their platform.
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No Jargon in Your Navigation

Posted by Jacob on May 8, 2007

Confusing your ministries speech with normal everyday speech can be a big problem on the web. It can make a well designed website into a mess for an end user. We do a few things to make sure that doesn’t happen.

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Improving Wordpress along side Spress

A simple way to manage spam from Joe
Posted by Jacob on May 6, 2007

You won’t see Joe Tan on this blog much, he’s not that kind of guy. However he is always working to make Wordpress better and therfore Spress better.
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