Ready to roll at T+L2

We arrived safely in Denver today and had a chance to look around for a while at the convention center. It looks like there will be around 2,000 attendees at the conference this year with about 250 vendors. Quite a nice size actually. The venue looks really great, and I was surprised to find so many teachers presenting on classroom technology topics. It’s not just administrative topics at this conference.

My colleague (and roommate for the week) are thinking of doing a daily recap podcast. That sounds fun, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to get them posted immediately. We’ll see. Stay tuned for session descriptions and other glimpses into this year’s T+L2.

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Spam Karma 2.0 unleashed

There was a period of relative calm that lasted almost six months, but that ended a few weeks ago when the comment spammers descended on my blog. Almost overnight I was dealing with 30–50 spam comments per day. At least 95% of them were stopped by the common spam words blacklist that I maintain in WordPress, but that just puts them in a moderation queue that I have to check periodically. It was getting to be quite an annoyance.

Enter Spam Karma 2.0. This WordPress plugin has stopped my comment spam cold, and it doesn’t even require me to moderate the comments that it traps. It’s intercepted nearly 1,000 comment spams in a little more than a week and hasn’t had a single false positive. Run, don’t walk, to install Spam Karma if you’re using WordPress.

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Heading to T+L2

I’m leaving on a plane in a couple hours for Denver, Colorado and this year’s NSBA T+L2 Conference. I’m attending with a colleague of mine and we’re going to be presenting about our district’s 1-to-1 computing project. I’ll also be hosting roundtable discussions on accessible Web design and blogging. I’ll be posting about the sessions here (and hopefully recording some audio for future podcasts), but you can also check out the T+L2 Blog for some other bloggers’ perspectives.

I haven’t heard if they’ve settled on a particular Technorati tag for conference-related posts so I’m just going to use “nsba2005″ unless I hear differently. (I don’t think the “+” in “t+l2″ would work very well, but I haven’t tested it.)

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