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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Friday, 10 February 2006
Fr, Feb 10, 2006Clubs, clubs, clubs
More clubs than you can shake a stick at over in club city at Salisbury Primary. I wonder if they'll make some pages for the clubs? I suppose that's a task more for the blog club (and me).
HowTo: Trackback
What is trackback? It's a way of telling another site that you're talking about them. You put a URL to their permaLink, or copy a trackback link into your news item, when you post, the server goes and get's that page, looks in it for some XML stuff, and then sends a trackback ping to their server to tell them you're talking about their news item.
It sounds more complex than it needs to be.
When I'm linking to news items off our community's sites, I always copy the URL under the # in the greyed out text at the foot of each news item, and place it in the URLs to ping box which is below the description box (where I'm typing this now). Then, the news item I'm linking to will have one Tracback [1] and the notify list is sent an email telling of the trackback.
Of course, it's not just sites here that support this feature. I trackback to other blogs, and other blogs trackback to me. All well and good. And a great way to let people know you're talking about them.
But, there is such a thing as trackback spam ;-( These little devils want to increase their Google Juice, and think that by getting links to their gambling or pills site from masses of other sites will help them rise up Google's searches.
We've taken measures such that they get no advantage here. It's a waste of time for them. But still they come. We block maybe 2 or 3 hundred a day. Sometimes more. Sometimes one or two will get through. When they do, I add their pattern to my heuristics to ban further similar TB spams, and sometime around 3 o'clock in the morning they're all deleted. I usually get 5 or 6, if anything at all now. Gone are the days of 27,000 TB spams being deleted.
It sounds more complex than it needs to be.
When I'm linking to news items off our community's sites, I always copy the URL under the # in the greyed out text at the foot of each news item, and place it in the URLs to ping box which is below the description box (where I'm typing this now). Then, the news item I'm linking to will have one Tracback [1] and the notify list is sent an email telling of the trackback.
Of course, it's not just sites here that support this feature. I trackback to other blogs, and other blogs trackback to me. All well and good. And a great way to let people know you're talking about them.
But, there is such a thing as trackback spam ;-( These little devils want to increase their Google Juice, and think that by getting links to their gambling or pills site from masses of other sites will help them rise up Google's searches.
We've taken measures such that they get no advantage here. It's a waste of time for them. But still they come. We block maybe 2 or 3 hundred a day. Sometimes more. Sometimes one or two will get through. When they do, I add their pattern to my heuristics to ban further similar TB spams, and sometime around 3 o'clock in the morning they're all deleted. I usually get 5 or 6, if anything at all now. Gone are the days of 27,000 TB spams being deleted.
Munch, jam, Indonesia and get well soon
From our Walsall Schools' sites...
The Head at Kings Hill is recovering from an op... Awww. He's Welsh too (so am I;-) So we wish him back to health ASAP. Leave a message in the comments, please.
In Salisbury we've my fav Edvard Munch as picture of the week. Wasn't the Scream nicked? And the BBC's Jam site. My two kids are forever elbowing me out of the way and going on to the BBC's site.
Two of Esme's favs are the frog counting and the caterpillar's "where is is" number square. Sometimes either Brad (5) or Esme (7) will be on the BBC's site for an hour sometime two at a stretch. I don't mind this, I get peace 'n' quiet and they get to learn. Whizzing around the site like they know it as well as the back of their hands. I'll try out the Jam site, I'm sure they'll like it.
And over at Beechdale's site we have an Indonesian day, or is that International Day?
The Head at Kings Hill is recovering from an op... Awww. He's Welsh too (so am I;-) So we wish him back to health ASAP. Leave a message in the comments, please.
In Salisbury we've my fav Edvard Munch as picture of the week. Wasn't the Scream nicked? And the BBC's Jam site. My two kids are forever elbowing me out of the way and going on to the BBC's site.
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Two of Esme's favs are the frog counting and the caterpillar's "where is is" number square. Sometimes either Brad (5) or Esme (7) will be on the BBC's site for an hour sometime two at a stretch. I don't mind this, I get peace 'n' quiet and they get to learn. Whizzing around the site like they know it as well as the back of their hands. I'll try out the Jam site, I'm sure they'll like it.And over at Beechdale's site we have an Indonesian day, or is that International Day?
