Blogger Buzz: On Spam describes Google/Blogger’s ongoing fight with spamblogs I wrote about a few days ago. They’ve even published a blacklist of spamblogs to help indexing services weed them out. I forgot to mention it in my earlier post, but the big white elephant in the room is WordPress and the affinity spam bloggers …
Category Archives: weblogs
When it rains, it pours
(67spamblogs, originally uploaded by mathowie) I have an ego feed I check every few days for my last name (fairly rare) from technorati. On a normal day there might be one or two mentions of my last name and it’s not always about me, but it’s useful for finding blogs that mentioned me or are …
Flag day
Someone should organize an international blogspot flagging day (all about flagging blogspot sites). We could pick a day, say, a saturday in September, then collectively cruise blogspot through the “next blog” button, flagging all the spam blogs that contain 10 links to a single site in every post, loaded up with keywords. I’ve been spending …
All new, all the time
If anyone reading this knows the group at Yahoo that recently purchased and is in charge of my favorite blog update service and aggregator, blo.gs, could you let them know the system is completely broken now? For some reason, every blog I’ve ever tracked with it is showing that it has updated. Even a blog …
heh
Dear preshrunk
Marketing shills
This Boston Globe article about blogs that shill products without disclosing their connections is an eye opener. I suspect that as underhanded SEO techniques become more obvious to Google, companies will move into this sort of hidden message marketing by paying bloggers to load up entries with fake testimonials for products they’ve never used. Take …
New interview
Rebecca Blood started a new feature on her site, setting out to interview bloggers about how they got started, why they do what they do, and what others can learn from that. I was lucky enough to be the first one, and she’s posted part one of our interview (part two will be posted Friday). …
I don’t know what to think of things like this
Interesting, I was awarded a spot on the Always On/Technorati Open Media 100 as a “trendsetter.” I don’t know how they determined who is on the list or why, or even what “open media” means, but I’ll take it and add it to my list of dubious accomplishments like “Shift Magazine’s Top 25 Web Personalities.”
Oh mY! god
My favorite weblog update service in the world, blo.gs, was down for a few hours today and I was lost. I could read some of the blogs I track via bloglines, but without all the personality of their site designs (not to mention all their sites’ features). It came back after being down for a …
Lifehacking
For some crazy reason, I (along with K-Rob) will be trying to fill Gina‘s doc martens over at Lifehacker this week. I’m using it as an excuse to do a brain dump of all the little hackery ideas I’ve been brewing for the past few months, but too lazy to write up. Thanks to Movable …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 