UMBC blog research on splogs in Baltimore Sun
TweetBaltimore Sun’s Troy McCullough talks about Pranam Kolari’s work on detecting splogs in his column on Sunday, 15 January 2006. The column also has an associated podcast. Fighting spam sites –...
View ArticleSplogs, like spam, will be with us for a while
TweetTwo years ago Bill Gates predicted that the spam problem would be solved by now, as this article in The Register reports. Hey Bill, why am I still getting spam? Junk mail outlives MS mortality...
View ArticleHalf of Swoogle’s hits are from referer log spammers
TweetWe are using bbclone to generate reports on Swoogle access. Look at today’s top 10 referers as of 3:00pm: www.legaladvocate.net 246 26.14% www.myjavaserver.com 152 16.15% www.google.com 125 13.28%...
View ArticleSifry’s state of the blogosphere
TweetTechnorati’s David Sifry has posted another State of the Blogosphere report with lots of interesting statistics. Highlights include Technorati tracks 50K posts and hour from 27M blogs. The number...
View ArticleNo spam on Twitter?!
TweetCan it be true? Russell Beattie posts that on Twitter there are nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls. Spam does exist on Twitter, of course, but it does seem to be less of a problem than...
View ArticleSplogs and politics
TweetHere’s something I never expected: splogs as a political issue. Actually, it’s allegations of political blogs being splogs, or rather allegations of accusing political blogs of being a splogs in...
View ArticleBlog comment spam magnet
TweetA good fraction of the comment spam that makes it through our Akismet filter is from people who are trying to add a comment to one of our posts about spam blogs or comments. Here’s an example from...
View ArticleSpammers are using Amazon EC2
TweetThe Washington Posts Security Fix blog has a post, Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud!, reporting on allegations that spammers are starting to use Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers....
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Storms on Planet Social Media Research
TweetWe maintain Planet Social Media Research (SMR) as a feed aggregator for a set of blogs relevant to research in social media systems. A few days ago I noticed that it wasn’t including new posts...
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Ebiquity Google alert tripwires triggered
TweetYesterday we discovered that our ebiquity blog had been hacked. It looks like a vulnerability in our old WordPress installation was exploited to add the following code to the top of our blog’s...
View ArticleUMBC blog research on splogs in Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun’s Troy McCullough talks about Pranam Kolari’s work on detecting splogs in his column on Sunday, 15 January 2006. The column also has an associated podcast. Fighting spam sites – latest...
View ArticleSplogs, like spam, will be with us for a while
Two years ago Bill Gates predicted that the spam problem would be solved by now, as this article in The Register reports. Hey Bill, why am I still getting spam? Junk mail outlives MS mortality...
View ArticleHalf of Swoogle’s hits are from referer log spammers
We are using bbclone to generate reports on Swoogle access. Look at today’s top 10 referers as of 3:00pm: www.legaladvocate.net 246 26.14% www.myjavaserver.com 152 16.15% www.google.com 125 13.28%...
View ArticleSifry’s state of the blogosphere
Technorati’s David Sifry has posted another State of the Blogosphere report with lots of interesting statistics. Highlights include Technorati tracks 50K posts and hour from 27M blogs. The number of...
View ArticleNo spam on Twitter?!
Can it be true? Russell Beattie posts that on Twitter there are nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls. Spam does exist on Twitter, of course, but it does seem to be less of a problem than on...
View ArticleSplogs and politics
Here’s something I never expected: splogs as a political issue. Actually, it’s allegations of political blogs being splogs, or rather allegations of accusing political blogs of being a splogs in order...
View ArticleBlog comment spam magnet
A good fraction of the comment spam that makes it through our Akismet filter is from people who are trying to add a comment to one of our posts about spam blogs or comments. Here’s an example from...
View ArticleSpammers are using Amazon EC2
The Washington Posts Security Fix blog has a post, Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud!, reporting on allegations that spammers are starting to use Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers. It...
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Storms on Planet Social Media Research
We maintain Planet Social Media Research (SMR) as a feed aggregator for a set of blogs relevant to research in social media systems. A few days ago I noticed that it wasn’t including new posts from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ebiquity Google alert tripwires triggered
Yesterday we discovered that our ebiquity blog had been hacked. It looks like a vulnerability in our old WordPress installation was exploited to add the following code to the top of our blog’s main...
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