Has anyone noticed lately that their weblogs may have entries from a -*high profile site*... not a biggy but a higher traffic site. probably newer?
I see up to a hundred or so visits from a site that I'm not familiar with on a week or so worth of files. Usually not just an IP but the actual name of the domain.
I realize that this is a inadvertent spam of some sort, by I always look. myspace... about 2 months ago. Today michaelwsmith, a Vietnam Vet site about a month ago.
Anyway it is a nifty marketing scheme for those of us that dissect our weblogs.
It is yet another instance of commercial greed stealing from well-meaning open communities, the antithesis of the values that made the internet work in the first place. Sometimes I just can't believe the cynicism and selfishness of people (and commercial entities, and PR organisations, etc) who see every open, freely sharing community as an excuse to sell stuff without paying for advertising. Spammers, too.
sorry, rant over... A couple of example links follow, make mildly entertaining and disturbing reading
NTK is one of the least readable, stream-of-consciousness type publications that's been around for about 8 years, it has charted the rise and movement of t'internet in a wonderfully ascerbic manner. Fascinating to go back through the archives and see the computing counter-culture news of the time.
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Posted - 20 December 2005 : 11:26:26
