More accurate Google Analytics

Are you frustrated because you cannot 100% trust Google Analytics' numbers? Well, first of all, forget the idea that there's such a thing as "100% accuracy" with web statistics - but here's a trick if you're using WordPress as a blog engine. Since you're always logged in when you check your own blog, you can filter out these hits caused by you by disabling the metric code in case a logged in user views the page. Smart WordPress tip from 100yen.
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Akismet for MovableType

Akismet, the successful Wordpress plugin against comment spam is launched for MovableType too. The basic concept of Akismet is to move the comment checking process from the blog engine to their central servers. Therefore they can have a huge database of spams and prevent them to appear on your blogs. The advantage of this concept is that you have less maintenance tasks, the disadvantage is of course depending on a thirdparty server to do the comment filtering for you. You decide - I stay with our homebrew solution, which will be published as soon as I can document it well enough.

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Widgets = plugins 2.0

Wow, two days, two major blog players announced the support of Widgets. (SixApart, WordPress) What are these? Is it really something new? Let's take a look.

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How to backup your blog

Google accidentally deleted their blog. Things like this could happen to everyone, the only questions are: when, and how prepared are you when it happens? The following article gives you ideas on how to backup your various blogs, and what to do when a problem happens - even if you didn't have backup.

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