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| Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
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Quote du jour 
| | The Head Lemur: Getting shot is preferable to Golf. Having played golf and been shot, I can say this. |
| | An old quote in blog-time, but too hard to pass up. |
Flunking the Splog Turing test
| | Turns out it was a post by Dave Winer that I had missed reading — and worse, didn't recognize immediately as Dave's. (I remember a small voice in the back of my mind saying "it kinda looks like something from Dave...", but I didn't see it on his blog, so I didn't check any farther.) |
| | It didn't occur to me, though it should have, that the site was a splog: a spam blog created and updated by an automated process, mostly to game Google's PageRank and Adsense. They succeed when they attact Google ads and make money from click-throughs. (I imagine it works the same way for other automated advertising placement service, though so far I've only seen Google's on splogs.) |
| | RSS is a hot topic, and no doubt attracting advertisers who bid up payments for click-throughs. So the sploggers are on the RSS case, along with Mesothelioma and a pile of other topics for which unknown quantities of fake sites are created every day. |
| | Carving Joape.com down to its bare index page didn't go anywhere yesterday. That should have been a clue. Today it does: to something called Dynamic Site Generator. Uh oh. |
| | I've said before this is a huge issue. Here's regrettable proof it still is. |
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