Good Q Caff!
I'm one of those people who shows off neat stuff I've bought If I happen to love whatever widget it is - to friends who have similar interests. God forbid the future where happy sharing becomes "spamified speech" and raises peoples suspicion.

Not to derail this thread but I've just spotted this post where Nick Denton calls for an ethical guidelines group to keep weblogs in check, a very timely idea. He suggests that Jason Calacanis (who revealed the FARK paid links) , with Jeff Jarvis should head it up with one other person.
I just hope that the third they suggest is not from the US, it seems rather narrowminded to have only US people try to outline rules for a worldwide problem. But maybe that's just me.

bingo.

According to security company F-Secure, one of the Web sites the company targeted in its zombie army attack--www.mortgage.info--redirected traffic back to www.makelovenotspam.com. This means that Lycos Europe could have unintentionally affected its own Web site

I spoke to Mr Sjönell the other day about this toy, he even tipped me off to that moronic move by mortage.info. It's not like they hadn't thought of that before they put the finishing touches on their screensaver. So no, that "trick" did not work. Also their website wasn'st DDosed offline, but they did have to move it from one server to another due to a lot of people wanting to download the screensaver. Being popular is hardly an attack.

Believe the horses mouth or news.com as you wish. I know what horse I'm betting on to tell it like it is.