Disqus is rolling out a new feature that allows you to automatically filter out comments from your websites that are considered "toxic." [1] Meaning, comments that are abusive, that are meant to degrade the conversation (trolling), that do not contribute to the discussion, or would cause a reasonable person to leave the thread.This comes on the heels of a study by the Data & Society Research Institute [2] on the same topic. The study's most important findings show that 27% of Americans have

Don't you hate it when you open a site in a new tab with the intention to get to it later and it starts playing audio for an ad? And when you go to turn it off, you can't find where it's coming from. Often that audio is coming from a very small autoplay video somewhere at the bottom of the page. It's frustrating. It can interrupt what you're doing, slow down the browser, and use up bandwidth that you may or may not have. All so a site can trick algorithms into thinking an ad was played and watc

In a recent video from Stone Temple Consulting, Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen brought up the concept of keyword cannibalization.[1] The basic theory is that if you write about the same subject over and over with multiple articles, you're competing against yourself in SEO. It's likely that Google will only reference one. Therefore, it is often better to keep a constantly updated and refined page than to rewrite on the same content.With this idea in mind, I decided to start looking at some of the