The Media Drop

Due to the fact that the same comment spammers who have been successfully blocked from commenting here through both TypeKey and other efforts (they were effectively DOSing this site) have moved on to Trackback spam, that functionality will be disabled until further notice - hopefully not more than a day or so.
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The Media Drop (TMD) believes that editorial content and advertising shall operate in seperate “houses,” and neither shall affect the integrity of the other. That said, advertisements may promote products, services, companies, or ideologies that do not necessarily reflect those of The Media Drop or its author(s).
However, The Media Drop may choose […]

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Commenting is back open, with TypeKey authentication now in effect. A lot of people have expressed their dislike of having to use it, but it’s one step of many that are needed right now to slow down comment spamming, which has been the bane of my site of late. It’s a little quirky […]

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I’m in the process of moving webhosts right now, and transitioning to a newer version of Movable Type. At the moment, Blacklist is not enabled and TypeKey has not yet been put in effect, so commenting will be closed for the short term.
In a related story, I received over 100 comment spams […]

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You might have noticed the addition of an Election 2004 Forum on the site today. Ideally, it should be used for discussions around the coverage of Election Day festivities. Feel free to start up a discussion there, or send your story ideas in via email.

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I’ve been pondering putting up forums here at the site for a while now, and finally bit the bullet. Mainly, I wanted to give people a little something more to do and a place to interact with one another. I’ll probably be relating it to posts when possible in the future, depending on […]

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Okay - a few more site updates tonight. I’ve temporarily disabled the visual PageRank because it’s massively slowing the site down.
I added Search Statistics to the stats section on the navbar. It utilizes David Raynes’ MTSearches plugin. This should make for fun periodic viewing for what people are randomly looking for here.
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You might have come across a few tweaks on the site this week, so I figured I’d point them out. Most recently, I’ve added a visual Google PageRank, which is located near the bottom of the navigation bar. Thanks to Steve Rubel for posting about it.
Also added was an advertising opportunity […]

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Just wanted to let all of you know that some of my posts from here at The Media Drop will also be found at Zik Magazine, a recently founded website with a few different blogs making up an online publication.
Specifically, I’ll be posting on sky_draft, the site focused on big news and the […]

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Just added a new feature to the site. On the main page and on the individual entry pages (not the monthly/category archives) you now have the ability to instant message a link to that particular post. Right now it’s only functional for AOL’s AIM service, but I’ll be looking into the need for […]

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