The leeches of Web 2.0 and why Google is still the devil

OK I'm hallucinating now. But if the things below do happen let them know you heard it from here too.I still have yet to gather my thoughts regarding the leeches of Web 2.0 (those hundreds of bookmarking, tagging, news syndication, etc., etc.) and when they will eventually...

Spammers ordered to pay MySpace 230 mln dlrs

"A US judge has ordered a pair of accused spammers to pay MySpace about 230 million dollars in what was being billed Wednesday as a record-setting punishment for such Internet abuses.Federal district court judge Audrey Collins issued a judgment against Sanford Wallace and...

Let’s Talk Spammers: Consonant VirginiaB Usernames

This is an interesting post, a call for committed cyber-communication.  Here is an excerpt:"Lately, there had been vicious spamming initiatives done here in iTalknews. They come in the form of a lot of consonant usernames with the same location, VirginiaB. The interests...

SEC Smacks Down Stock Spammers

What surprises me about this is that people even buy stocks based on breathless spam messages. Then again, if people didn't respond, then spammers wouldn't spam."The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken action against alleged stock promoters and hackers thought to...

Wikipedia Leads; Will Search Engines NoFollow?

"Wikipedia has announced that all of its outgoing hyperlinks will now include the rel=”nofollow” attribute, which instructs search engines to disregard the links. Search engines infer a page’s importance by seeing who links to it — pages that get many links,...