Barbarians at the Grate - the death of blogging?
Interesting article about blog spam. I actually disagree with Jack's prediction because I think that Blogger has done a fantastic job of combatting blog spam. Far better than my ISP has done for my email, I should point out.
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From The Globe and Mail
Jack Kapica
It had to happen: Spammers, always looking for a new way to clog your mental arteries, are now major players in blogging.
They find a blog, then start exploiting the ability for posting "comment spam," ads masquerading as comments to blog items.
The situation became unbearable after Google's BlogSpot, which offered people the ability to set up free blogs. It wasn't long before spammers discovered this: These guys are always looking for a big chance. And it revealed a terrible flaw in Google's thinking: How could such a large and supposedly venerable company not understand that their product would attract spammers?
What's really interesting is that yet another technological craze has been crippled by spammers. Their comment spam — it even has a name now, "splogging" — is rapidly pouring cold water on blogging enthusiasts.
And soon, blogging should become another marginal activity, like posting to Usenet groups, which no one seems to be interested in doing any more.
E-Mail Jack Kapica at jkapica@globeandmail.ca
Posted Oct. 26, 2005, at 12 p.m.
2 comments:
Kinda stumbled upon here . . . i agree with the kudos to blogger for blocking spam - but some of those words they put up are incomprehensible and it takes two or three tries to get a post up. Perhaps they do too good a job.
And motherdear - i absolutely agree with you on how you gain confidence and then nobody says peep. Sometimes I'll write something I think is fantastic and it gets completely ignored or uncommented upon. Then somedays I'll write something totally random and not put any effort into it and i get a few comments. You can never tell.
Anyway - fun blog ya got here! crap now i have to type in that word to get this posted
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