Recently there was a test comparing the Mozilla-Google phishing protection to the MicrosoftIE phishing protection. You can see the detailed results.

This is pretty interesting, but what about Lijit and the Netcraft Toolbar?

There are a couple of points in this article which are either inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. Hopefully I can clear them up a little.

Inaccuracies about Pathauto

Pathauto is not the cause of performance issues - the source of the problem is in the path module which is easily seen if you look at the project and component in the issue to fix that performance problem. While Pathauto isn't the source of the problem, it does a good job of highlighting it. Urlify, if it existed when 4.6 was popular, or an aggressive user who entered aliases for every node would cause the same performance problem.

Moshe has provided a quick screenshot of groups.drupal.org usage map overlay which is neat. I like looking at this kind of data from the perspective of density and growth.

Sorting by the number of visits is interesting, but neglects the fact that countries are different sizes. Sorting be people/visit shows more of a "weighting" by the size of the country, but discounts the levels of computer/internet penetration within the country. It's not perfect, but it's still interesting. If you want the raw data here is the spreadsheet.

One more skewing factor: rss feeds

My friend Brook has a wiki. It's pretty awesome. I like personal homepages on wikis or self-hosted blogs way more than I do myspace or whatever.

I previously wrote about this idea in Paid blogging - Review of ReviewMe, PayPerPost, Blogsvertise (not a sponsored post) and at that time I was NOT paid for the post. Well, the time has come and ReviewMe is now live and kicking. So, does my earlier review hold true? So far it seems to and that's not terribly surprising based upon the initial work they've done on the site. Use of the site is logical and simple. There are plenty of usability enhancements I found that I want to integrate into my own sites.

ReviewMe has several requirements for their service. First, all blogs submitted must pass their quality test. It's not terribly complicated how it works (nor how to game the system) but it does a decent job of keeping out the junk sites. Next, you must mention that it is a paid post which is certainly above the line in terms of the ethics and clarity of what's going on. Third, write a balanced review - no need for it to be extremely positive OR negative. Fourth, make money. So far, that seems to be it!

What's notably missing: onerous requirements such as required linking and/or link text that you MUST include in each post. Requirements to insert tracking bullets, requirements for a certain slant on the issue. Requirements about frequency of posts. It's really about the best situation I know for publishers and that's a great idea. If it works out right, they'll get the best group of publishers which will in turn draw in advertisers to the group.

This is a system built by and for people who understand the cluetrain manifesto: open and honest conversations with your consumers and in front of your consumers can only help your business. If your business can't stand up to that, time to change or close up shop.

I'm a little sad they don't have an affiliate program.

From anecdotal reports (my sister in law) to traditional media outlets it seems everyone in Denver is complaining that voting went poorly. Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher said "Heads should roll". Really?

Voting for the prepared

If you planned ahead more than 5 hours before the end of the polls, here were your options:

Well, after complaining about Colorado wind power so much I have to give them credit and point out that Xcel Energy is now accepting more subscribers into Windsource.

Bonus #1: They have an Online Signup form though it doesn't do a very good job of recognizing and remembering where you live.