The Google Blog recently posted about audio captchas — basically a way to have human authentication for people who cannot visually see web pages. Most blogs or other places using verification schemes tend to show a visually skewed image that a user must decode and enter in order to post a blog comment, signup for […]

The other day Seth Godin talked a bit about “astroturfing” and the efforts of some people on the web to campaign against it. What is astroturfing? Basically, faking grassroots enthusiasm for a product, politician, website, and so on.
It just made me wonder, isn’t a whole lot of “SEO” or search engine optimization really just some […]

So, I haven’t had this blog up for very long. A few posts here and there, but I have definitely been discovered by the spam bots. I am sure not as much as most people, but every day it seems like there are 30 more comments about viagra, or cialis, or random link.
It reminds me […]

I saw a post today on Jeremey Zawodny’s blog and he mentioned that a year after no-follow was introduced and agreed upon by many of the major blog owners, comment spam is as rife as ever and that there has been a change in how people comment. I made a comment on his blog and […]

So this blog has had a few posts over the past month and I just received the first piece of comment spam. The site had technically been live a bit before that but no blog feature or anything detectable, such as the nice “powered by wordpress” that can be used to find blogs in google […]