You cant make this stuff up. Yellow Pages company, DexKnows.com, is paying people to write nice things about them on blogs. Oh, and it gets better. YP industry consultant, Ken Clark then takes the payola and blogs about it on one of his industry blogs, where he claims the paid posts are “actual experiences.” I [...]
Last Sunday, before returning an unsolicited Verizon phone book to Idearc Media in Eagan, I hopped online to unsubscribe. It took some digging, but I eventually found a contact email that seemed appropriate at Idearc. I sent them this email: Unfortunately, I received an email back from Idearc six days later where Amber decided to [...]
Hooeyspewer reports that she’s had great success getting off of catalogs using a service called CatalogChoice. My mailbox is seriously thankful to me for lightening its load. When I initially wrote about signing up with them, they had over a half-million members and its membership had collectively opted out of over 6 million catalogs. Today, [...]
Sometimes I come across blog comments that are just a bit too generic. They’re complimentary, but don’t mention anything specific to the topic of the post. When this happens, there is a good chance the comment is a piece of spam. Here’s an example: It’s certainly polite, although it also says nothing related to the [...]
What should you do when someone: comments anonymously to your blog under a made up email address from a Kinko’s store on a post that’s more than a year old where they hypocritically decide to attack someone you happen to mention in the post? Gosh, which button should I press?
Dear citi. Just letting you know that I’ve followed your command: I did not discard your letter. Could you let me know what to do next? Should I put this in a safe deposit box? You mention in the lower-left corner that I should (Jesus cross) “See inside for details” Does that mean I should [...]
Google finds itself in the middle of quite a few sketchy markets where they both profit from the existence of the markets, yet potentially could also benefit from destroying the markets. The current example is domain kiting where domain registrars temporarily register (yet avoid paying for) massive quantities of domains, throw up some Google AdSense [...]
A new type of comment spam popped up on Technology Evangelist today: scraping the post itself for comment content. The comment below showed up on this post. When I saw that comment in my comments feed, I thought, “That sounds strangely familiar.” It turns out that that’s because I WROTE THAT in the post.
Ever heard of splogs? They’re blogs full of spammy content. People create programs that generate thousands of pages of content with ads on them, figuring that is they have thousands (if not millions) of pages of content, someone will surely stumble upon the site and click on an ad. One problem. It takes a lot [...]