I built this website. From scratch. Including the servers.
Via Marketingfacts (fellow nominee in the MarketingSherpa survey by the way) I found that Loic Le Meur has also spotted these "spamblogs" littering the likes of Technorati. While he notes that "This is really bad." (meaning the blogs, not technorati itself) other commentors agree showing that we're not alone in spotting the problem. Ever alert David Sifry Technorati CEO chips in with his two cents as well;
"Yes, we know about this and are combatting this on a daily basis. It is a bigger problem than many think, given how easy it is for people to create robots that create fake blogs on free hosting services to serve as link farms or for adsense fraud.Technorati is working really hard to identify and eliminate this spam, and is developing both automated and social-oriented filtering and spam identification tools. I think that this is going to be a major differentiator in the next year or two, as spammers and SEO operators have discovered the value of the blogosphere in directing and orienting attention on the web...
This is why we helped organize the first Web 2.0 Spam Summit earlier this year, and we're working with all the groups, large and small, to help squash this before it becomes an even bigger problem."
Remember The Czech is in the Mall 2003? :) That's when they got press in The Prague Post for this film/dvd. Not bad!
PS, Stay Free has posted about it now too.
Toot louder m'dear. ;)
Didya notice, Media Culpa and Mediafact (Marketingfacts) are nominated as well.
If the coffee-mug is just as big it'll be a perfect fit for me. ;)
But caff, you're too damn humble check it out, Cup Of Java nominated under personal blogs, now everyone go vote for Caff, she frickin' deserves a great big mug to keep her caffinated beverages in! :))
Aaah, thanks for the 'support''. ;) Yaknow for a moment there I thought I might have a defect funnybone. I looked at it, understood how many hits it had had the first day. Realized that someone approved it and though somethig was wrong with me... I mean, they say nothing and they do nothing. wtf?
They're not the only ones who cover shit they don't own in London (or most world-cities for that matter), after all that's where Flyposters are paid for by taxpayers since the advertisers don't pay for the "media space" (which it isn't) and don't pay for it's removal. Some might argue that the spread of ads on 'pirated' space might have caused the street art boom as most artists paint over the illegal ads as canvas.
/serious ;)
It is pretty ironic though, and perhaps best summed up like Jordan said when Nissan did their Urban fakeout I LOVE this, by the way. I love how how "legitimate underground artists" are pissed off that their idea of subversion is being subverted. And
it's probably the work of a street artist hired by a creative wonk like me at an agency to do the subverting.
"But, but, I wanna be angry! I wanna fight the power! I'm not just some whiney tagger bitching because, um, I get to decide what's cool and if you do something sort of cool-esque it erodes my cool and my identity as EDGY and SUBVERSIVE..."
Waaaaah!!!"
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