We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held on (20th March,2007) by Coca-Cola in conjunction
with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email was
among the 20 Lucky winners who won £1,000,000.00{One Million Great
Britain Pounds} each in the THE COCA COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.

Notice the disjunction?

Why would Coca Cola who like to promote a healthy image associate anything to do with British American Tobacco, who as the company name implies make Tobacco products that generally carry a heath warning?
Admittedly some would argue that Coca Cola should also carry a health warning, but are the spammers just totally stupid?

There is a good reason I include a quote from Dane Morgan on my about page. It is not just because it was complementary, but because I know he is a very smart cookie, that has been around the block a few times with all kinds of affiliate marketing. He is vastly more experienced than I am.

I am a marketer and also like many online marketing tpes, I love tracking of all kinds, because it helps me with my business. Millions of dollars are saved each year by smart marketers using various forms of tracking and split testing to improve their Adwords performance.
If you are running Adsense, again you should be tracking and testing different things. Having some idea of who is clicking an Adsense advert such as an IP address is vital if an advertiser complains to Google about click fraud.

It also should be noted that many of the largest advertising networks are also lumped into the exact same “parasite” barrel as it seems MyBlogLog has done, but at least Dane has managed to get something corrected.

Dane knows a lot more about this stuff than I do, so if you have any questions, dont hesitate to ask him.
Continue reading Is MyBlogLog a Parasite over on Danes blog for full details.

I am very much pro MyBlogLog – most people are very much pro Google and Amazon as well, and they collect heaps of data about what you do on the internet.

Most of the changes are under the hood in the way of security fixes, plus there shouldn’t be a need with Mark Jaquith’s plugin for those that were having server 500 problems with WordPress 2.05.

Mark Jaquith has also provided WordPress 2.06 patch files for those that don’t want to do a complete installation. These are unofficial.

Here is a note he also posted on the wp-hackers mailing list

Whatever you do, don’t discourage
people from upgrading. 2.0.5 has multiple XSS issues and a potential
SQL injection issue.

As Mark points out, you should always make a full backup of files and database before upgrading.

I will be upgrading all of my sites over the weekend, and hopefully this will be the last upgrade before WordPress 2.1 is launched, which I suspect will be in approx 1 month.

Feedburner Patch: – If you use feedburner with 2.06, you will also need to add a small patch as detailed at Neosmart