Is SplogSplot (Splog Detection Site) Dead?… I Hope Not

January 10th, 2008 You never worry about your site security until after your site has been hacked for the first time. It is always a moment of truth, when you first realize how vulnerable you (your site & your data) truly are.

June 10th, 2005 They formulate Godwin's Law. The Nazi's are so powerful even now that their mere mention stops a conversation on usenet! And what do bloggers do who are dead-tired? They write about dead Nazi's of-course.

May 16th, 2007 I got a ping from Google India's R&D department. They are looking for leadership role and were apparently quite impressed with my online resume; which hasn't been updated for about 5 years or more.

June 8th, 2009 Stanford computer prof. Rajeev Motwani found deadATHERTON, Calif.

October 21st, 2005 It appears to me full content RSS feeds are actually helping and compounding the splog (spam blog) problem. Splogs or spam blogs are blogs which are created by using syndicated content of other blogs, automatically aggregated, to increase their PR and AdSense dollars.

November 29th, 2005 With the merger of WebWork and Struts now it is crystal clear that our beloved (not to speak bad about the dead) java web framework is no more with us. It's parts will however be salvaged and added to WebWork.

February 12th, 2005 I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog or splog! For sometime spammers have targeted blogs, first through comment spam and now increasingly through trackback spam.

September 5th, 2007 I noticed something funny with this site's statistics. On average people are spending 4 minute 8 seconds on the site.

November 14th, 2005 Lets talk about when to use AdSense - Competitive Ad Filter. It is very rarely used to block competitors.

July 28th, 2008 Only four days after escaping from a federal minimum-security prison in Florence, Colorado "Spam King" Eddie Davidson, 35, killed his wife, baby daughter and finally himself. Davidson shot and killed his wife in her former home in Bennett, Colorado along with his three-year-old daughter.

December 19th, 2005 Del.icio.us website currently presents you with: Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We've taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything.

July 24th, 2006 As part of the settlement in the click-fraud case - Lane’s Gifts v. Google, Google had agreed to have an independent expert examine click-fraud detection methods, policies, practices, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not Google have implemented reasonable measures to protect their advertisers.

October 12th, 2006 I think I just had a conversation with a splogger wannabe. Read the gory details: [15:54] Tbs: You there mate..?? [15:56] angsuman: Yes [15:57] Tbs: great..

February 11th, 2009 In this age of emails, something I still appreciate about postal mails is the sender's address. The emails only carry the date and times but not the sender's address.

June 26th, 2006 Google Earth rival Geoportail dies in one day. It's got to be a guiness record.