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Comment spam becoming conversational
Spam of all forms is a fact of life on the internet, with email and comment spam being the top two. Like some kind of internet arms race, as fast as the systems evolve to filter spam out of our in boxes, the spam changes subtly — now comment spam is becoming a conversation…
How to hide spammy Shouts on Digg
Unsolicited messages (a.k.a Spam) are a drain and a drag. No sooner do we edge away from our total dependance on email – towards Social Networks like Pownce and StumbleUpon, or IM (Instant Messaging) services like MSN Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger – do we then find ourselves the target of yet more spam…
According to the [...]
Search Engines to kill comment spam?
As a ‘blogger, you come to expect comment spam. Such things are part & parcel of ‘blogging. As a ‘blogger however, what we don’t want is for comment spammimg to become an industrial-scale process. But maybe we could expect to find salvation in a very unusual but very visible source?
If we assume that the search [...]
TinyURL is good, but…
I think there’s room for something a little special. I think the guys at TinyURL could help towards thwarting the effectiveness of comment spam, and here’s how…
First of all, for those not familiar with TinyURL: “Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have [...]
Assessing the true cost of One Laptop Per Child
What one man giveth, another man often takes with both hands. So while the One Laptop Per Child project might look like a winner right from the get-go, the long-term consequences could be hidden costs and comment spam on the cheap.
This isn’t good news, especially on the back of criticisms of the OLPC project from [...]
