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Today's Fresh Blogs...| WordPress and Comment Spam |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm |
| Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Akismet, Automattic, Comment Spam, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Plagiarism, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogs, Wordpress |
| that reCAPTCHA counts the spam as it eats as spam in Wordpress, that could explain why Akismet seems to be so accurate. Still, what intrigues me most is that no spam has gotten all of the way through. It seems logical that reCAPTCHA is blocking the spam that actually uses the form, which was the spam getting through from time to time, while |
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| Picking a Dead Man's Pocket |
| Published: July 19, 2007, 12:23 pm |
| Tags: Prevention, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Archive, Caching, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Internet Archive, Meta Tags, Plagiarism, Robots Txt, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spammers, Splogs |
| to be used by professional spam bloggers, who need more content than this method could provide, but could be favored by human-powered spam sites that are trying to appear legit. To those Webmasters, the unethical ones catering to humans and the search engine bots, this type of content theft can seem like a dream come true, especially when one |
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| Using Comment Spam to Measure Blog Rank |
| Published: May 22, 2007, 2:03 am |
| Tags: The War On Spam, Technology |
| I created the Akismet Auntie Spam for Firefox extension to make the anti-spam (ham) stick out more from all the obvious spam. In an update I never officially announced, our little old Auntie will now mark all Akismet-marked comments that have common spam words in red so that we can completely skip over them while dumpster diving through the |
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| Choosing a Good DNSBL |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 11:03 am |
| Tags: Spam |
| stry_cat submitted a story about selecting a good DNSBL. It talks about some of the problems with DNS blacklists and the sorts of things that you should be looking for. Things like Speed, Selection Criteria, and Goals make the list. And of course not requiring payment to be removed from the blacklist.Read more of this story at Slashdot. |
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| The History Of Internet Spam |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 10:32 am |
| Tags: Internet, Bill Gates, Gary Thuerk, History, Internet, Spam, The New Yorker |
| on the history of electronic spam. They cover the origins of spam, how it has evolved over the years, as well as the somewhat futile attempts to try and eradicate it. In the spring of 1978, an energetic marketing man named Gary Thuerk wanted to let people in the technology world know that his company, the Digital Equipment Corporation, was about |
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| Protecting the Comment Feed |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 2:51 pm |
| Tags: Prevention, Articles, Atom, Comments, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Feed, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogs, Wordpress |
| of little use to scrapers. Spammers need dependable, lengthy, keyword-rich feeds to scrape and most comment feeds simply do not meet that bill. However, scraping and spam blogging is a constantly evolving art. As Webmasters grow more and more wise to the problem of RSS scraping and scrapers’ thirst for new material continues to grow, the |
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| In Brief: Introducing the W206, W213, W156, W160, W175 ... |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 9:20 pm |
| Tags: Gadget Spam, Motorola, W156, W160, W175, W18, W206, W213 |
| Introducing the W206, W213, W156, W160, W175 and W18. The bigger question: Why release 6 low end candybar phone at once? Might as well do one phone that we care about. [Crave] |
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| Plagiarism Today Turns Two |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:24 pm |
| Tags: Housekeeping, Personal, Articles, Anniversary, Birthday, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Today, Scrapers, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogs, Two |
| including scraping, spam blogging and image hotlinking. That, in turn, where Plagiarism Today has been for the past year or so, working with Webmasters, companies and organizations to raise awareness and create solutions to help artists, writers and musicians who post their work on the Web get the credit they deserve. That part is |
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| The New Yorker On Spam |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 8:19 am |
| Tags: Spam |
| 6th New Yorker surveying the spam problem up-to-date. The New Yorker may not be exactly the MSM, but it is pretty influential. The author got only one fact wrong that I noticed: Canter and Siegel's seminal spam was propagated through Usenet and not email. Still, it's a good look at the history of spam and the scale of the problem today. The |
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| A Scrape of a Scrape |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 11:07 am |
| Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Ie7, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogging, Spam Blogs, Splogs |
| get picked up by other spambots. In short, every feed your work appears on can, and most likely will, be scraped, even if the appearance is unwanted. It may even be possible to piece together much longer chains of scraping, where you end up with a fifth or sixth generation scrape. In this case, the first feed was most likely a scrape of a |
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| How To: Hide your email from spam bots |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Email, How To, Spam, Web Publishing |
| your email address from spam bots without pulling it from your web site altogether. The most user-friendly suggestion is the Email Protector tool, which encrypts your email address. You have to add a small javascript file to your web server to decode your address behind the scenes only when a visitor clicks your contact link. Of course, it's |
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| Disposable Email Address: Disposable email addresses with 10 Minute Mail |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Disposable Email Address, Email, Email Apps, Spam |
| Web service 10 Minute Mail throws its hat into the disposable email address ring. 10 Minute Mail offers free email addresses that last for only 10 minutes -- perfect for forums and signing up for porn sites that you think will sell your email address. 10 Minute Mail does not require any registration and does not force you to use a password. |
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| The History Of Internet Spam |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 10:32 am |
| Tags: Internet, Bill Gates, Gary Thuerk, History, Internet, Spam, The New Yorker |
| on the history of electronic spam. They cover the origins of spam, how it has evolved over the years, as well as the somewhat futile attempts to try and eradicate it. In the spring of 1978, an energetic marketing man named Gary Thuerk wanted to let people in the technology world know that his company, the Digital Equipment Corporation, was about |
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| Copyright 2.0 Show - Episode 19 - McTakeDown |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 11:25 am |
| Tags: Podcast, Articles, Bay Tsp, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Google, Linux Veoh Perfect10, Plagiarism, Podcast, Sco, Spam, Spam Blog, Splog, Viacom, Youtube |
| mistakes its own blog as spam, deletes it And Many more… You can download the MP3 file here. Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed. Show Notes I also want to take a moment to link to this story on Ars Technica dealing with plagiarism issues in the scientific community. It is a great read and I wanted to |
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