Comments on: Russia blogging roundup (plus other important stuff)

By: Rubashov

Rubashov — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:37:47 +0000

Always a pleasure to read the roundups, even if it’s a (brilliant!) procrastinating technique. And hopefully I can write something good enough soon to make the next roundup. Which is to say (sorry for the plug), as of yesterday Darkness at Noon is back in business…

In the meantime, I’d better back up all my stuff in case the hackers are still on the loose!

By: poemless

poemless — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:41:05 +0000

Thanks for these, as always.

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:43:55 +0000

The other thing I meant to say was that, while you are upgrading, make sure you deactivate ALL of your plugins.

Oh! Thanks for this…I didn’t bother to do this, despite the instructions to do so. I’ll know for next time.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:40:03 +0000

Andy, some of your readers might enjoy a couple of posts I put up yesterday with magazine covers from years past celebrating V-Day. I'm don't think I got hacked (is it possible that could be the sole advantage to using Blogger?), but my Technorati authority recently dropped dramatically, around the time I got a top-level domain (www.scrapsofmoscow.org), even though the old domain redirects. I assume the two things were related, although to be honest I am not really up on all the search-engine and social-networking optimization techniques. Good luck restoring your good Google name!

By: Xavi

Xavi — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:14:11 +0000

Hi Andy,

Thanks for mentioning my Gagarin’s post.

Well, being greedy I should claim those Russian War Tubas too, as Coming Anarchy got it from Soviet Russia (http://sovietrussia.co.uk/bringing-down-planes-with-balloons/)

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:30:13 +0000

What a pain – although your webhosts should upgrade you.

The other thing I meant to say was that, while you are upgrading, make sure you deactivate ALL of your plugins.

I didn’t, and it permanently broke my database. Had to go back to the backups and start over, minus a couple of days worth of posts/comments.

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:07:08 +0000

I tried upgrading to WP 2.5 this morning, but I found it only works with MySQL version 4.0 or above. So I’m standing around with my pants around my ankles until I can get my webhosts to upgrade me, if they will.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:54:35 +0000

Thanks guys.

I’ve followed most – although not all – of the security tips you’ve posted Brett. Not going to tell you which ones I’ve yet to implement though, in case anyone’s listening…

In terms of google authority, now that I’m sure it’s not hacked I’ve submitted a reconsideration request to Google. Apparently they take a while to be considered, so fingers crossed…

By: Aleks

Aleks — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:04:11 +0000

Aleks is also twittering – better yet, he posts his twits (or is it twitters) on his site in the section “outbursts”.

My site has also been hacked some time in March. I put off getting it back together until last weekend. And I wasn’t even using WordPress. Thankfully, the database was left intact, but it appears I’ve lost some readership and authoriteeee.

By: Russophile

Russophile — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:36:17 +0000

I signed up for a twitter profile before someone else took russophile: https://twitter.com/russophile