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Blogger has finally got off its arse and added an option to moderate comments posted to Blogger blogs for the blog owners. However, it is pretty limited:

* Comments that have already been published or rejected are removed from the moderation list. Rejected comments are deleted and cannot be recovered. Approved comments can be deleted in the usual way if you decide you no longer want them.
* When rejected comments are deleted, a “this comment has been removed” message will be left in their place. You can remove this by deleting the message from the post page like you would for a regular comment.
* Only blog administrators will be able to moderate comments. Team members without admin privileges will not have access.

Some people state this will cut down on comment spam - I doubt it. Only those following all the news know of this feature. Unlike captcha verification on comments promoted through a message on the dashboard when the user logs into his Blogger account, this feature is not likely to be noticed. Thos creating new blogs will see it of course - but I guess most people (especially those wihtout much tech knowledge) simply running their blogs and not messing with their settings every now and then probably won’t even know it’s possible…

Well, Google is slowly pushing its users to unified accounts for all the services it offers. As Problogger reports, AdSense users are now asked to switch to using Google accounts - not like I would have noticed if not for this post as I use a gmail login anyway.

The general public’s most notable reaction is getting annoyed over having to re-login every time if you use several different accounts for different stuff. Well, it’s been a reality for me for a good while already as I had to use multiple accounts even for Gmail itself (isn’t it hard to believe there are still people who only use one ). However, one solution I’ve come up with is logging into different accounts using different browsers (as in , Firefox for one account and IE for another one, and so on if you need to be logged into more at the same time). This solution of course has its limitations too, you can’t run an unlimited number of browsers on your computer as they will all add up to the CPU load…

Seems like nowadays most people think if they’re blogging they just have to post something about splogs. However, this one made me wonder. Have CNet’s authors run out of topics to post a month-old story from Google Blogoscoped? The story features an interview with a person who doesn’t consider himself a splogger, but CNet begs to differ. Of course all the moralizing is in place, including the call to report the guy to Splog Reporter, but don’t we all already know what all these lame spam fighters are worth… I’d just suggest to take counter measures and report the reporters At least the original interviewer at GB was nice to that guy…

What’s really nuts about the original interview though is that the guy is actually listing all his blogs there, thus making himself vulnerable to all those do-gooders’ attacks… I’d understand if they were live links from GB’s PR5 page - but alas, they are not. Not a black hat practice for sure, but then like he says, he’s new to the internet.

Well, a newbie he may be, but he seems to already have sound understanding of some things. Here’s my favourite quote from the interview:

So I benefit because I have relevant content on my blog that people may be looking for. People may come to my site and might click on an ad then I make some money. Also, they may read part of the article, desire to finish reading the article, then go to the source and they might click on one or two of their ads so the publisher makes money.

And another one, from the comments following the post:

Am I adding value to the internet? That was never really my goal.

Go “unflag”/”unreport” him or something?