Hacking Memeorandum 101

re: Hacking Memeorandum 101

Enric — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:57:24 GMT

This does point to a self-referential danger of insulated messages echoing.

re: Hacking Memeorandum 101

alexbarn — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:41:54 GMT

Ben Barren is playing: http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2005/11/gabe-drawn-into-gender-mediablog-wars.html

re: Hacking Memeorandum 101

Gabe — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:17:06 GMT

Alex,

I want to leave some belated comments here. Because I was mostly away from the Internet the first time around and even now your page ranks high in a Google search for "memeorandum".

I think you omitted, intentionally or not, touching on a lot of important points that undercut your assertion.

First, a memorandum “hacker” must be a blogger with an established reputation and in doing so risk their reputation and the prospect of future placement on the site by “hacking”. I think it’s mistaken to assume that lots of bloggers will do this.

Second, one needs to spam their own site to spam memeorandum. Your screencast asserts that we should expect Viagra ads on the site soon. It seems doubtful to me that influential tech bloggers will blog about Viagra to bring about this result. Remember, anonymous link farms which affect Web search aren’t seen by memeorandum in the first place.

Third, memeorandum can even be policed in real time. It’s just a page, not a search engine. It requires about 1/10 of a human to check headlines. I think you’ve applied a search engine mindset to something that isn’t a search engine.

Finally, I have a problem with some of the images you posted to document your efforts, since disappeared quietly. They were misleading, and had the effect of exaggerating the impact that the hacking had to readers not intimately familiar with my site. You even planted the words “Memeorandum hacked – the return” where there were none onto a supposed screenshot of my site. I think that was a low blow, and unfair for your readers too.

re: Hacking Memeorandum 101

alexbarn — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:18:57 GMT

thanks Gabe, my response here
http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/12/01/498888.aspx

re: Hacking Memeorandum 101

Matthew — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:02:53 GMT

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Oh no, so it's happening again&nbsp;(again, again, again)...!

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