SEOMoz has posted some original research on effect of CAPTCHAs on conversion rates:
With CAPTCHA’s on, SPAM and failed conversions accounted for 7.3% of all the conversions for the 3 month period. With CAPTCHA’s off, SPAM conversions accounted for 4.1% of all the conversions for the 3 month period. That possibly means when [...]
Version 2.2.6 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is released. WordPress users may upgrade using the Plugin Update feature, or by waiting for the forthcoming WordPress 2.8.2 release.
This release contains minor fixes only. Upgrading is recommended but not essential.
Changes since 2.2.5:
Fix a global warning introduced in 2.2.5
Add changelog and additional readme.txt tags
Fix an [...]
Version 2.2.5 of the Akismet plugin is released. WordPress users can upgrade using the automatic plugin update feature.
Changes since 2.2.4:
Include a new Server Connectivity diagnostic check, to detect problems caused by firewalls
The 2.2.5 release fixes a problem in the r131686 test revision that caused spurious error reports in some circumstances.
The new Server [...]
If you’re using the test revision of the WordPress Akismet plugin and seeing messages about connectivity problems, don’t be too alarmed.
Akismet is up. Our servers are working. Our network is fine. We are not experiencing any service difficulties.
We’re still sorting through the reports to find out why people are seeing error messages.
In [...]
Remember way back when you first got interested in web design? Seems like an eternity ago in web years when I made my first clumsy web sites. Maybe you got started making home pages for friends or a local club. Maybe you helped some people get hosting accounts, set up a quick [...]
Those who like to live on the bleeding edge might like to download and test the latest revision of the Akismet WordPress plugin from Subversion:
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk
If you don’t know what Subversion is or how to use it, I’d suggest waiting for the next official Akismet release, which won’t be far away.
The new revision includes a new [...]
