Ugh. CNNfn changed lineup

So...amongst the habits I've picked up over the past year is an addiction to watching CNNfn. Normally I watch it for 30-40 minutes in the morning, then again around lunch, then possibly later around market close. I don't watch it all day, mostly because I don't have a cable feed in my office. Anyway...this morning CNNfn premiered a new show Dolans Unscripted. I managed to watch almost, almost five minutes before fleeing to CNBC. Just can't watch fluff this early in the day.

May be time for an rss feed of banned IPs

Blog spam is what happens when people post to weblog comments entries designed to hype a pagerank in Google (by including links to a specific page). It's easy to automate since most sites use the default installation for blog software (a pat on my shoulder for changing the movable type URLs on this site). From Ernie The Attorney: Peter with IP address 217.26.240.61 you are a spammer I got the idea that it may be time to set up an RSS feed of blocked IP addresses. Sure, an innocent user may get blocked but you know what? There's absolutely no obligation on my part to make my site freely available to one and all. I can be as arbitrary and capricious as I'd like. Most of my ~400 blocked IPs are from hosts trying various exploits on my sites. A couple are specific IPs (for example IBM's WebFountain crawler is explicitly blocked). At ibm.com we routinely blocked 100s of IP addresses for various reasons (they still might, I don't know).