Comments on: Blogging Suspended for Now

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 17 May 2008 22:04:08 +0000

Well, I for one love you with or without your spam-a-lot.

Although I have never before posted a comment to your blog, I have read every single one (since the one you wrote to ‘me’ - as I like to think of it) and I am so glad you write them.

And BTW here is a strange coincidence for you.. that comment was from Geoff Shackelford, no?

I used to date (no, not date)…. furiously snog a man named Geoff, and I think we both know what kind of odd spelling that is for the US - and at the same time, a guy I worked with was in a band called “Shackleford Brown”. I read that comment in some kind of time-warp. Weird.

Anyways, I love you! And I’m sending hugs and kitty snoggles across the pond.

By: tigerwillow

tigerwillow — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:59:38 +0000

here is one of the “comments” (trackbacks?) that I got… simply keyed to the word g0lf.

GeoffShackelford.com wrote an interesting post today on Performance as ArtHere’s a quick excerptGolf claps to the little girl and her footmen! I also love…

And the link goes to a pseudo-blog that is a link farm for questionable but not dirty videos… the site has nothing to do with g0lf NOR DOES MY SITE, or that post. As far as I can tell, robots are digging up keywords, grabbing little pieces as “excerpts” and inserting them in auto-posts as “fresh content” - which is really just a way to update their site, spread their roots across the interwebs and drive traffic to their link farm where it’s pay-per-click.

I’m sick and tired of being a content producer who gets exploited and ripped off in the name of “sharing links.” I’ll have to publish legitimately… and in the meantime, I’m looking for a better way to blog/journal publically. LJ has its drawbacks, Vox is too “noisy” for me, and I left Blogger for I can’t remember why… but none of them had the same horrible sp*m issues as this.

Time to refocus, reframe. I’ve got a business to launch and can’t be mucking about with this stuff.

By: Deke

Deke — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:47:32 +0000

Since I’m still a novice in the blogosphere, how are you able to determine that content has been stolen? I mean, I know how to see if images are being hotlinked from a site to another site, but as far as text goes…?

If you’d rather mail me, that’s fine, too.

By: emily

emily — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:52:05 +0000

That really stinks! I’ve seen those fake “this is my blog” sites with the weird content; I didn’t realize they were trolling for it from other people’s blogs. I hope you figure out a solution quickly; how frustrating.

By: Terri M

Terri M — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:51:21 +0000

I think it might be WordPress. I haven’t gotten spam on the order you’re describing, and I’m not aware of any of my content being stolen, but one of my cross stitch posts is inexplicably linked via a naruto picture on another WP blog. I think I’m getting naruto hits this way, too, but I haven’t explored. If kiddles want to look at Naruto pics, and they find his drawings via botlinks, I’m ok.