Monday, November 14, 2005

Good quote

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
  - Ellen Goodman

Monday, November 07, 2005

Only a matter of time

It was only a matter of time, I suppose:

 

     Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs, are

     Web Log (or "blog") sites which the author uses only for

     promoting affiliated websites. The purpose is to increase the

     PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from

     visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites

     indexed. Content is often nonsense or text stolen from other

     websites with an unusually high number of links to sites

     associated with the splog creator which are often disreputable

     or otherwise useless Web sites.

    

     Splogs have become a major problem on free blog hosts such as

     Google's Blogspot service. These fake blogs waste valuable disk

     space and bandwidth as well as pollute search engine results.

     ---Wikipedia

 

If you're a blogger, and especially if you use the Google tools for blogs, it'd be good to get yourself up to speed on this new form of spamming:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog

http://www.splogreporter.com/

http://fightsplog.blogspot.com/

http://www.fightsplog.com/

http://www.google.com/search?q=splog