The curse of any blog is the endless stream of comment spam. In some cases this has lead a number of predominant popular bloggers to turn comments off all together. Which in away defeats the purpose of a blog altogether doesn’t it. Well this blog used to get its fair share of spam. Okay we aren’t up there in the two to three thousand pieces of comment spam a day. But for this small blog it was in the range of two to three hundred comments a day. Then in all changed. Now it’s 1 to 2 pieces of spam a day. So what did I do to reduce to the level of spam.

Miles Burke started the flickr meme for Web Directions South (which is about to close its Early Bird Pricing… so get in quick!). And now with the program out, we are planning a secret cloning project for the WebHatch Day.

With the days now counting down and the Perth Posse are ready to descend upon its own hotel. That’s right this year we have booked out almost a floor of a “dodgy” but quaint pub in Sydney, the Kirk on Harris.

We all know about twitter. if you have been reading this blog for a while you would have come across a few posts on twitter. A while back in May 2007 I wondered if we would be using twitter at Web Directions South 2007 or OZ-IA 2007 in September. Well with less than a month to go to these events it would appear that twitter is in for the long haul. Interesting and amusing things from twitter recently:

• 1000 Monkeys

  The genius developer Andrew Tetlaw surfaces with his 1000 Monkeys Twitter API implementation. Very funny go check it out.

I don’t know about you, but for myself and others I have spoken to in the web industry, it seems over the last 18 months we have been having a little bit of a boom. You would think with things going well in this type of business environment that it would be the “Best of Times”. But with the good times there can also come the “Worst of Times”.