Ramblemuse Touch Points

In her Massage and Bodywork Journal Blog, Julie Onofrio was complaining last August about ad farms that lift her content. I’ve had that happen too. A couple of months back I’d tracked down a set of interacting domains that were hijacking content and sent the information to Technorati, since they were indexing these fake blogs. There’s an in-depth article in the September Wired on these spam+blogs = splogs. Yes, it is annoying finding stray paragraphs of things I write totally out of context. It creates a lot of noise and uncertainty for those searching for the information in context.