Comment Spam, Long Copy Referrer Pages & SEO Tools

Just about everyone knows that spam is part and parcel of life. We just live with it and try to do our best to minimise the impact it has on our daily lives. Unfortunately spam is a particular issue for the SEO industry, as unscrupulous search marketers often turn to spamming techniques to make a quick dollar.

Google-hosted Blogs – Content Warning

When a Google Blogger blog is flagged by many users, and Google reviews it deciding it contains hate content, then Google may put up a “content warning” (this is not a new feature, it exists for some time).

Google and Video – The Other Side

When it comes to Google and video, most people probably think about YouTube or Google Video and the struggles that have been going on with Viacom pulling its content and the deal with CBS falling through, etc. (which I wrote about recently).

Can the Next President be Elected by Social Media?

Way back on February 9, 2004, I wrote a famous (well, Doc Searls linked to it) post called The Internet Does Not Scale/The Internet Is Not Random (scroll down)  on the collapse of Howard Dean’s mostly internet-fueled campaign in the cornfields of Iowa.  It said, in part:  

Linux To Microsoft: Bring It, Freakshow

Advocates for Linux want Microsoft and their CEO, Steve Ballmer, to dispense with the threats and show which code in the Linux world infringes on Microsoft's property.