Archive for October 17th, 2005


More on spam blogs

Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2005 22:51 - Category: Unfiled ;


Only 2-8% of blogs are spam blogs: Technorati.



David Sifry of Technorati has
published his latest state of the blogosphere report with the
interesting statistic that only 2-8% of blogs published are spam blogs.
The important question of course is how many of those are hosted on
Googles Blogger/ Blogspot service?

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Attention Democratic Senators: Now is the time to find your spines.

Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2005 13:05 - Category: Unfiled ;

Phone call notes reveal friends think Miers will trash Roe V. Wade

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Hi, my name is Wilma

Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2005 10:09 - Category: Unfiled ;

And I’m a tropical storm

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Podcast: Iran now.

Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2005 08:46 - Category: Podcasts ;

Even with troops bogged down in Iraq, the Bush regime continues to
threaten the people of Iran with the prospect of war. What is the
reality about Iran’s “nuclear threat?” What are the social and economic
conditions inside Iran? What are the main political currents in Iran
today? In an eyewitness report given Oct. 9 in San Francisco, Mazda
Majidi, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation,
addressed these and other pressing questions for the movement.

MP3 (39:28 13.5 MB)

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Kristol: Rove and Libby will be Indicted

Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2005 08:43 - Category: Unfiled ;

 
Bill Kristol is an inner circle neoncon, and that’s his prediction.

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Google: Kill Blogspot already!!!

Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2005 08:34 - Category: Unfiled ;

Google bought Blogger (Blogspot) a while back and has done nothing with
it. Now it’s is being used by spammers to clog other blogs. Chris Pirillo,
influential organizer of Gnomedex among other things, is calling for
Google to either fix the problem fast or kill Blogger completely.

Google, it may have been a smart acquisition in the beginning, but y’all need to clean house
in a big way. You’re the tallest nail, and you’re really getting
pounded - and now others, who aren’t even using your service, are
getting pounded. Blogspot has become nothing but a crapfarm, and your
brand is going to go down with it. If your motto truly is to do no
evil, then you need to start putting some resources behind an effort to
curb this train wreck.

And Google has responded, saying they will fix it shortly. Good!

Update in response to the comment from Lefti on the News - I’m adding this from Pirillo’s post.

In the past few days, I’ve been inundated with an enormous amount of
subscribed search spam for designated keywords. To the tune of
hundreds, if not THOUSANDS, of bunk entries. Who knew “lockergnome” and
“pirillo” would be THAT popular?! Still, I can’t help but think that
others are having the same headaches - and 99% of the crap coming in is
directly from a single domain: blogspot.com.

I don’t know what’s (specifically) making it so insanely easy for these
spammers to get signed into your system, but you need to change that -
ASAP. I’d love to
ban / filter anything and everything that comes from blogspot.com, but
the problem is that I have quite a few friends on that service who are
sitting in the 1% “legitimate” minority.

Suggestion, Google. As bold as this might sound, you should institute
an authentication system - a captcha of sorts - for every single post
that gets sent through your Blogger service.

Lefti on the News is a great
Blogger blog. So are many others (as he notes in his comment.) However
many are spam factories - and the percentage is much higher
than on other blog platforms. This unfairly slimes reputable Blogger
blogs like Lefti and Atrios, and Pirillo knows that.

Chris Pirillo has a reputation for being fair, friendly, and not
ego-driven. For him to level a broadside like this is quite
extraordinary, and enough people pay attention to what he says that I
expect Google will indeed be plugging the spam holes sooner rather than
later. Good.

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And the overwhelming majority, get ready for this shocker, voted yes.

Bob Morris @ Oct 17th 2005 08:27 - Category: Unfiled ;


Rigged vote in Iraq?.

Chris Allbritton
does the numbers and they look screwy. It’s even worse than his
analysis shows. The number of votes can go from 166 k (January) to 643
k (October), which is a 400% of the January total, and not the 420 k
(October) he cites.

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