{"id":1885,"date":"2007-02-01T20:23:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2007-02-01T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T20:25:11","slug":"spam-and-ham-or-what-you-find-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Spam and ham, or what you find on the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One amazing set of figures, and an illuminating graph <a href = \"http:\/\/akismet.com\/stats\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So about 6 per cent of comments made on blogs are &#8220;real&#8221;; the rest spam. (Luckily Akismet, which provides these figures, is pretty good. On a bad day it catches on this site around 1,000 spam comments &#8211; I can hardly complain that during spam &#8220;storms&#8221;, which seem to come along every week or so, it misses the odd one.)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of things you find on the internet: I discovered today that you can watch the entire BBC2 show <a href = \"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/the_daily_politics\">The Daily Politics<\/i><\/a> (until noon the day after broadcast). I discovered that today because Sian Berry, the Green Party Female Principal Speaker, was on the show &#8211; which was going to be about climate change, until the latest Blair revelation. Still, she did a good job, I think, across some unexpected ground.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is that a couple of days ago someone was mocking me for not owning a television. As I said, it is me who is ahead of the curve now, not them &#8211; since you don&#8217;t actually need one any more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One amazing set of figures, and an illuminating graph here. So about 6 per cent of comments made on blogs are &#8220;real&#8221;; the rest spam. (Luckily Akismet, which provides these figures, is pretty good. On a bad day it catches on this site around 1,000 spam comments &#8211; I can hardly complain that during spam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}