With ten years since the CANSPAM act, we need to reevalue what the word spam means and how it’s changed in the past decade.… Continue Reading
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Blogger CAPTCHA Cracked
Though it seemed as if Google was starting to make some headway into the spam blog problem on its Blogger service, the spammers seem to have turned the tide by cracking the CAPTCHA system and creating more accounts than ever before. … Continue Reading
The Most Common Mistake in Plagiarism Fighting
As the issue of plagiarism and content theft draws more and more attention on the web, in particular among bloggers, several Webmasters are posting their experiences with content theft and some intrepid writers are producing their own guides for fighting content theft on the Web. Though the attention to this issue is welcome, many of… Continue Reading
Scraping Starts from the Very First Post
Rachel Radison is a New Orleans-based mortgage broker. After seeing the difficult home-buying climate in the city following Hurricane Katrina, she decided that she could help would-be buyers with her know how. Radison, having heard about these new Web sites called “blogs” decided to create one herself and obtained a WordPress.com account. However, her ignorance… Continue Reading