A good 12 months ago you could depend upon a a solid core of your social network to be centralised on several common social networking sites, such as flickr, twitter, facebook, linkedin. Things where relatively stable, well as much as they can be. Comments on one sns stayed on that sns, comments on a blog, stayed on the blog. The core of the sns mob would from time to time go explore a new sns, sometimes integrating it into the group of core sites sometime not.
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Spammers are Getting Tricky
Posted in blogging, musing
If you run a Blog or any publicly facing form on the web then you now take it that spammers are a constant problem.
I have noticed over the years that the quality of the comment spammers has been improving. It is to be expect really, as the tools to combat spammers step up and gets better so the spammers will improve their scripts and tools. Not that I like it.
Over the years you get to see the general type of spam:
Tagged: blogging, comments, duplicate-comments, spam