New settings for this blog

Because comments were getting lost in the Akismet spam (over 200,000 spams since the start of this blog) we have changed the mechanism to reCAPTCHA where commenters have to enter simple words. I hope this is not too problematics but please mail if it is.
One downside is that pingbacks are also disabled so I shall not get automatic notification of blogs about this blog. Since some of the discussions ping between blogs this is a slight handicap but I shall read Technorati frequently.
One interesting thing about reCAPTCHA is that it includes words scanned from books. This means that the commenters digitize parts of books while they use it – a word at a time, but it all helps. Whether this makes a major difference to book digitization I have no idea.

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2 Responses to New settings for this blog

  1. pm286 says:

    This is a test comment from petermr

  2. Rich Apodaca says:

    Peter, one suggestion. You might want to decrease the width of the comment text box so that it can be displayed before the end of your orange sidebar.

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