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Reporting Spam Blogs

February 1, 2008 on 1:47 pm | In Blogging | 2 Comments

It’s bad enough to receive spam in your email in-box, it’s even worse to have a spam blog steal your content. There doesn’t seem to be any real answer to solving this problem, although many bloggers, including myself, use a variety of tools to fight spam blogs.

A couple of the methods I personally use on my blogs to combat the splogger are akismet, a plug-in to capture spam comments and await blog owner approval or deletion, and the Math Comment Spam Protection plug-in. With this second plug-in, anyone leaving a comment must complete a simple math equation before being allowed to submit their comment. This sets humans apart from spam bots.

Even with all of the precautions we bloggers take, it happens almost daily, our content winds up on a spam blog. Why? Spam blogs are attempting to earn money online via advertising. They are lazy and don’t want to write their own content, they simply want cash. In other words, greed.

In an effort to combat spam blogs read this article on Google Adsense making it possible to report spam blogs. Paid advertisers do not want their ads on spam blogs, so this method of reporting them may just work. That is, if Google is serious about fighting spam blogs.

Thanks to the Chief Procrastinator for pointing out this great article.

Election 2008

February 1, 2008 on 10:22 am | In Some of This Some of That | No Comments

Are you following the election process? The primaries have been quite interesting so far. I was very surprised to hear yesterday that Giuliani had dropped out of the race. It was intriguing to see his stats compared to John McCain. In the beginning of the Republican race, Giuliani was leading McCain, strange how things happen.

You might want to check out ElectionQlips if you’d like to follow and be able to comment on the primaries and race for the Presidency. This is a press release that further explains what they are all about.

QlipMedia (http://www.qlipmedia.com) has just launched the public beta version of ElectionQlips (http://www.electionqlips.com), a new destination to discuss all that is Election 2008. Readers can share their comments with the community and leave comments on Presidential Election themed video posts using their recorded voice, free-hand drawing, and images to let everyone know what they think and how they feel about every point in the posted debates, ads, punditry and stump speeches. As the nation’s attention increasingly focuses on the outcomes of the ongoing primary elections and the general election to follow this November, viewers of ElectionQlips can stayed tuned to all the exciting action, including voice and video comments of their fellow citizens. And anyone can bring their wit and wisdom to bear on the debate of the moment, commenting to their heart’s content with their own voice and images.The blogosphere has always been about giving a voice to common ‘netizens’, while democratizing the dissemination of the news and opinion. But heretofore that voice has been confined to the two dimensional world of the written word. The broad appeal of video has added a third dimension, a layer of contextual relevancy just not possible with the written word alone. Blog commenting has been similarly constrained by the same technical barriers. ElectionQlips brings multimedia blogging full circle, giving blog commenters the ability to post live, multimedia comments right on the videos they’re viewing in their own voice, using their own doodles and images.

• 100+ million blogs in existence
• 1.5 million blog posts per day
• 1 blog with multimedia commenting capability

ElectionQlips users can take their election debate with them by sharing the link and embedding the player anywhere. On the video timeline, it’s easy to bring out all the facts with every detail of the debate through point-by-point analysis. The density of comments at every point let’s one see what’s hot and what’s not in every debate.

The goal of ElectionQlips is to make it possible for everyone to participate in any debate, discussion and controversy using their own voice. Commenting on blog posts is a common enough, ElectionQlips gives an edge over other contemporary election blogs, especially with respect to sharing your comments and opinions.

About QlipMedia:
QlipMedia makes QlipBoard, a tool that combines videos and images with drawing, highlighting and adds your voice is the easiest way to talk about anything and turn any video into an instant discussion room. ElectionQlips is produced by QlipMedia, Inc. and designed by OuterJoin. For more information, visit www.qlipmedia.com

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