Yesterday I noticed a new blog that is featuring several of my posts as they were written by them. This is not new to the blog scene, but what annoys me is that after informing them through a comment (they/he/she don’t have a contact page) they only removed one of my posts.

On the other hand I might consider it a compliment, as they are obviously grabbing content that would give them better ranking. This somewhat common SEO trick will fortunately only work for a while until enough people report the site as SPAM, and the site vanishes of the surface of the search engines.

Compliment or not I’m not going to support this parasite behaviour, and therefore I encourage everyone to block out and leave sitekreation dot com flying in the dark. I’m not even going to provide a link to the site as I don’t think it deserves it.

If your content was stolen by this or any other site please feel free to share what you did and what you felt. Good to get it out of your system they say…

From the Bulgarian Music Idol broadcasted on 26.02.2008. I’ve never heard anything like it before

This is the original by the way:

AVG products are running on over 70 million computers worldwide, mainly because of the free AND trustworthy 7.5 edition I believe. However, AVG has always delivered fast, effective security without the performance-sapping overheads of other security suites (Norton), and AVG Internet Security 8.0 continues that tradition.

Now available as a special time limited offer for up to 3 home computers with a 2 years Subscription for less than EUR 96.59 (153 USD)!

This means you can get both your office and home computer fully secured and still be able to provide me with a valid license (hint; finders fee) for less than EUR 50 a year!

Virus Bulletin review, March 2008 [ Source, requires registration ]

The combination of a wide range of features – including some nice innovations – with much improved design and usability, stability, unexceptionable system impact and highly impressive detection, seems like a winning one, and I expect to see AVG continuing to go from strength to strength with this release.

Read more news and press releases.

Alexa.com recently announced that they’ve changed the algorithm that calculates the rank for any given website. This means that rather than basing the rank on data collected from the Alexa toolbar they’re now aggregating data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.

Since its beginning in 1998 Alexa Rankings have become a yardstick by which website popularity is measured. I for one welcome the change as it looks like the new algorithm benefits my rankings It could very well be that European and other non-US websites will see an increase in measured traffic due to the broader data collection.

This marks my first post here on Blogvaria using the new and possibly better admin panel and features in WordPress 2.5. I’m also happy to report that all my plugins seems to work and that my theme handled the upgrade painlessly.

I’ve been running this blog on WordPress 2.2.x for some time now, but after reading several warnings about Technorati (and possibly others) planned index exclusion of vulnerable blogs I’ve decided it’s time to upgrade. After a quick test on localhost I didn’t see any reason not to go ahead.

However, things might break and I would really appreciate feedback in case you discover something out of the ordinary.

More updates will follow I’m sure, and soon a new theme which I will share as always.