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http://www.windley.com [Phil Windley's Technometria] The last week or so I’ve been getting slammed by “Nice site” blogcomment spam that just wants a link to some dubious Web site.

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Blog.searchenginewatch.comhttp://blog.searchenginewatch.com [Blog.searchenginewatch.com] Yahoo My Web Tagging & Why (So Far) It Sucks: Yahoo bought two different search engines -- AltaVista and AllTheWeb -- that also had clustering that no longer gets offered. Yahoo's own current technology is even used to create the Yahoo News Tag Soup "tag cloud"

http://writely.blogspot.com [Writely.blogspot.com] Writely Blog: Yes, you can keep using Writely, and we promise that we'll work hard to ensure that the transition to our new Google-ized service is seamless. And yes, we agree that the ability to share documents and collaborate is critical to Writely users, so we'll continue to allow existing users to add collaborators even as we temporarily stop accepting new sign-ups.

http://feetup.org [Feetup.org] Feet up!: You really couldn't make this stuff up, first off there's the dubious shutdown of The Pirate Bay - dubious because there's a lot of contention as to whether any Swedish laws have been broken by TPB, and the Swedish minister responsible for the seizure appears to have been operating far beyond his scope, plus there's the fall out from the other legitimate companies whose servers were also seized.

[Forum.statcounter.com] Inktomi and sexy**.blogspot [Archive] - StatCounter Free Invisible ...: Although it won't prevent spam, one way to discourage it is to automatically add (if you can) the [rel="nofollow"] tag to any user-supplied anchors. It won't keep users from clicking, but the major search engines (http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html)will ignore such an entry.

http://www.niallkennedy.com [Niallkennedy.com] Google spam suite primer: Blogger's Blog*Spot hosting is a quick and easy way to create new blogs. It's free, you can post via e-mail, and many people think a Blog*Spot blog is the quickest way into Google's search index since the blog hosting servers might be only a few rows away from the Google crawler and of course Google knows how to find all of the content inside its own system.

[Computer Security] Cheapsters chase garbage trucks, sell coupons to... : Nashville Tennessean - Jodie Farris of Nashville held a “Blues Clues” Birthday Party for son Aaron on his fourth birthday with 20 children and several adults for $50 including a lunch of hot dogs, chili and chips bought on sale and homemade birthday cakes one

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