Tuesday, January 25, 2005

evolving modes

We know comment spam. But did I miss a step, or is this a new thing? Blog spam? Spamblog? SpmoG? More (apparently from same "source") here and here and here and here, here, here, and many more.

Like ennui, spam is a wondrous teacher.

4 Comments:

Blogger Kia said...

Oh look! They're hiring writers!

http://www.craigslist.org/nby/wri/57067866.html

Oh god I'm depressed...

1/26/2005 2:15 PM  
Blogger Social Director of the Internet said...

i'm still trying to figure out if the pet insurance is for ducks, or if we're supposed to, like, "Duck!"

I've seen these kind of blogs coming up in my referral log for a while. Spammers are so much smarter than us. They are first to market smarties.

I hate them.

1/26/2005 11:21 PM  
Blogger Tom Matrullo said...


WE BUILD OWNERSHIP. More than awareness, we make your brand the brand of choice. We make consumers part of the design process. We find out what they want, and give it to them. We find out what message, tone and style will create brand loyalty, and what won't. We give them a voice.
- from the guerillapr.com site.

That's wearisome enough. But these spamblogs appear to be generated by robots. Could be the blogosphere growing a new appendage: 5 billion new blogs, machine tooled, posting daily boilerplate nonsense in the service of addlepated industries. Interesting consequences for "social software."

1/26/2005 11:47 PM  
Blogger Kombinat! said...

OK. We are ready. Kombinat! is for hire to make Absolute Fake Blogs on Brands. We'll ghostwrite anything. We require a montly paycheck of 1 Billion Yurinkini Drahmas. Any takers? I mean it.

1/31/2005 8:36 AM  

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