Evidence of automated comment spam on Moveable Type weblogs. It makes sense for spammers to concentrate on weblog software with significant market share, since they can then push out spam automatically. The infrastructure for relatively automated discovery of Moveable Type weblogs is already in place.
It becomes problematic when this automation reaches the point where it doesn't matter to the spammers whether an individual weblog is indexed by Google or not — then they come with the big watering can, just like with email today. And in the long run, there will probably be no way around registration requirements for comments (or at least some form of checking for humanity on the other end).
Things get really tricky when trackbacks are spammed — because these are inherently designed for automated ping distribution, moderating that becomes difficult. Sure, you can use heuristics to decide whether a spammer is a spammer, but they will occasionally fail.
Unlike wikis, weblogs are particularly interesting for web spammers due to their high prevalence and extensive interconnection — and many protocols (trackback, pingback, comments) are very much designed for openness.
Here's the original article.
Faces of the Economic Crisis.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Another piece of evidence for a ridiculous patent that is hard to beat in terms of banality and wishy-washy claims. And companies want patent protection for this? For downloading music with transfer to CDs? For storing software on data carriers when purchasing the software? For on-demand storage of electronic books on e-readers when purchasing? Absurd.
Even though Microsoft is hit again here, patents in such a general and banal form are simply economically damaging. Actually, even the dimmest member of the European Parliament should understand that. Actually.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
It's become so commonplace by now that it's almost boring again. Frightening.
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
A report by Michael Reichmann on the Contax 645 combined with the Kodak 16 Megapixel digital back in use in the Rocky Mountains. And although he does not describe the combination as ideal at all (too many minor inconveniences in operation and interaction, plus power consumption), he is enthusiastic about the results and counts them among the best he has produced.
At PhotographyBLOG I found the original article.