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(Thanks to James Farmer for popping this article our way). The Register today unveils the life of the rich and infamous, “Interview with a link spammer”: Sam – let’s call our interviewee Sam, it’s suitably anonymous – lives in a three-bedroom semi-detached house in London, drives a vintage Jaguar and runs his own company. But “it’s not not all rock and roll and big money”, says Sam. What isn’t? Spamming websites and blogs with text to pump up the search engine rankings of sites pushing PPC (pills, porn and casinos), that’s what. For that’s what Sam does, pretty much all day long. He – we’ll use the male notation, it’s easier – would do this anyway for fun, but it’s more than fun; he says he can earn seven-figure sums doing this. Sam is a link spammer. There is some interesting history that indicates the actions of spammers are pretty [...]

Wow, a variation on the BlogChatter, this nifty site shows, in near real-time, the World as a Blog… Real time and updating display of weblog postings, around the world… Weblogs.com + geocoding + RSS But what is it? You see a world map, and as weblogs entries are posted around the world, they appear on the map (from geographic location specified by GeoURL tags and RSS feeds provided by weblogs. Your blog tool must be set to “ping” weblogs.com on new posts. Items are updated every minute. Again, not sure beyond the “cool” factor, what one might do with it, but it is a powerful demonstration of tyiing together different simple communication protocols to do something new. With luck, I can snap a screen shot after this post! Update: It worked! I blogged this and appeared on the world map 3 minutes later. View image [52k]