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Scraping sites

Current list of IP addresses I have banned, for scraping, using WP-ban
72.249.103.154
69.41.230.8
74.50.109.2
69.93.233.66
74.86.179.154
72.52.244.148
78.110.160.130
216.255.185.178
74.86.186.66
70.87.226.18
207.226.183.66
74.52.59.130
74.52.67.146
69.89.31.61
72.36.144.34
Most persistent scrapers are, with number of attempts:-
69.41.230.8 110
74.50.109.2 4
72.52.244.148 2
74.86.186.66 4
207.226.183.66 9
78.110.160.130 6
70.87.226.18 2
74.52.59.130 [...]

Picture Posting Feeds

Just installed the rather cool Flickr Photo Album for WordPress
plugin by Joe Tan of Silas Partners.
It makes posting images from Flickr a cinch whilst also creating my own flickr page on this blog (over at geoffjones.com/flickr). You are allowed to select from 5 image sizes to pass to the editor.
The image is of a swan [...]

New beginnings

After 2 years of procrastination I have finally transferred this site over to Wordpress . My first Wordpress site was for the Our Social World conference in September 2005, which I think is just about when WP was released to the public.
Since then I have set up quite a few WP blogs for [...]

Changeover process

I have now imported all the posts created in the past few years created using blogger . These were ftp’d to my site hosted by domain direct. I couldn’t do it the import direct from my old site, so I republished the 697 posts onto a blogger hosted site and then imported [...]