I was going through my blog and flog to give my memory a jog and through the fog I came across...splog (spam + blog). Yep in the ever-expanding web-log dictionary there is another term but its not something cool. Every now and then someone posts a random comment like "You have a cool site" and sometimes its obvious that its some kind of spam but sometimes I actually think it might be serious and let it pass. I even clicked on the link to check this persons page and it couldn't be found. That was a like a month ago. I clicked on the link again maybe yesterday and some guy has bought the URL www.mynicemailat.com claiming that he did so to screw the person who went around spamming thousands of peoples of blogs with these comments promoting that site which they probably would've eventually bought and used to do who-knows-what with. This is one area where people seem to actually be unhappy with google because of the amount of splog that you get at blogspot.com which I guess is the most popular blogging site. (I could insert an MSN Spaces commercial here but I won't, mainly because I haven't actually used it myself). I think the impression is that they aren't doing much to stop it mainly because the more activity there is, good or bad, they profit from it. Aside from being annoying from users, splog can be a serious problem for IT administrators because it compouonds the already crazy problem of e-mail spam, phishing, etc . At least there are some renegades out there doing what they can to combat this growing problem.
 
Relatively unrelated but I had an interesting exchange with someone over the National Society of Black Engineers here a while ago. I think I know who it is but they didn't mention it so I didn't mention it. Hello!

 

Stan