You may have noticed that the Satin Pajama Awards back in February. First my job got in the way, then my computer died, then I moved to a new city, and, well, I never got back on track, until now. They’ll be held on Tuesday May 15 22.
Nosemonkey’s doing his fourth euroblog roundup.
Still some time [...]

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If you haven’t taken the survey, do it if you got some time [...]

It’s too bad that Wordpress seems to break HTML in the title field - so I can’t use a modest Roman numeral to indicate that it’s you! Yes, you, reader from pol.co.uk, who clicked on a link in your google reader at 2:32 am CET, who is the one millionth sitemetered unique visitor to A [...]

Just a brief note to those who were using our European web aggregator @foe before we had to take it down due to the CMS transition - the aggregator is online again. I will continue to improve a few things in the next couple of days, including adding more feeds, so you may still experience [...]

Welcome back to afoe 3.1 - now running on Wordpress. What I considered to be a weekend’s job - moving a blog of the size of afoe from the multiblog capable Movable Type to the single blog CMS Wordpress and hacking it to the extent necessary to keep the impression of a multiblog - turned [...]

Gentle readers,
should you be concerned about the relative silence on afoe while seemingly everyone else is celebrating the European anniversary, I would like to let you know that, afoe is once again in the midst of an important transition: Following the recent comment spam/Perl-related server issues with our host that forced us to temporarily disable [...]

Gentle readers, as so many other blogs, afoe is having major problems with the way Movable Type, the system we’ve been using to run this blog since 2003, is handling comment spam.
Unfortunatly, as you may have noticed, our host, totalchoicehosting.com, decided this morning that it had to suspend our domain temporarily because of the excessive [...]

The problem that has caused comments from regular readers to be treated as spam should now be resolved.
For the information of other MT and Akismet users, it relates to how MT handles multiple spam tests. MT-Akismet assigns a score of +/-6 to each comment, then the e-mail and URL fields are checked against past comments [...]

The purpose of the awards is to recognize the efforts and contributions of Europe’s many talented bloggers, to maybe help build a sense of community among us, and, more than anything, it’s a chance for people to discover lots of new good blogs.
A blog is eligible if it’s written by Europeans or has a European [...]

It says something about AFOE charter member and - to use a NASA title - principal investigator Edward Hugh that, when Nosemonkey recently did a roundup of new European blogs, the top one on the list had already been roped in to EdWorld, as a contributor to Demography Matters and Global Economy Matters.
You will be [...]