Akismet

tDiary is a blog tool famous in Japan, which should become more famous now that Tadashi Tada has developed an Akismet library for it.

Simone Carletti from Italy wrote it that the “Zend Framework Core Team has reviewed and approved Zend_Service_Akismet proposal.”
“The initial revision has been moved to Incubator, this means that probably it will be available with the next ZF release.”
That’s great news, thanks for the note Simone.

Because of network issues in our Phoenix cluster we’ve had to shut it down, and over the past week there have been some blips of downtime where you probably got some spam through on your blog.
Because spammers never sleep, every second of uptime is really important to us, and we’re bringing online a new cluster [...]

Byrne Reese, the leader of Six Apart’s Pronet and Movable Type development, recently conducted a survey on the most popular plugins for Movable Type. I was very happy to see that MT-Akismet, written by Tim Appnel, placed well in all of the lists.
“If you were only allowed to install one plugin, which one would it [...]