I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.
I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.
Built using Django, served by Apache and mod_wsgi. The database is SQLite. The operating system is FreeBSD, on a VPS hosted at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet. Vintage topo imagery from the Maptech archive. The markup engine is Markdown.
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At least 96059 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.
History lesson
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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Comment Spam Stats
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
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Comment Spam
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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Blog flair backlash
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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Spam, del.icio.us spam
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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Dispatches from Blogistan
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
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Joel on TextMate
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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I hate those SitePal ads
Friday, September 8th, 2006
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Is Akismet broken again?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
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Akismet anti-comment-spam
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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The most popular blog in the world...
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
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Well blogs
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
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About.com starting to move to WordPress
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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Everybody loves tags
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
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Flock, a browser for bloggers
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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Blog Usability Showdown: Me vs. Jakob Nielsen
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
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More on "Splogs"
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
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Fixing Web Spam
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
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Blogging as R&D
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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Google blog search
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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Booktools
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A different kind of URL shortener
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The syncbox
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Branching and merging in real life
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Summer Spam
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malpaso
Understanding tuples vs. lists in Python
13 days ago
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Understanding tuples vs. lists in Python
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Bicycle Repair Man bundle for TextMate
19 days ago
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Trying to send eBay a message?
56 days ago
Smok Cigs
Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
93 days ago
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