Splogs

"At first glance, it seems like a regular blog. But look closer and you'll see there's something very odd about the blog's content: It's very familiar. Too familiar. That's because you wrote it, six months ago, on your own blog. The rest of the content doesn't make sense: The same word repeated over and over again. There are ads all over the sidebar for products like Viagra and mortgage loans. This, you realize, is a splog, and you're the victim."
It's also a copyright infringement, isn't it? My creative commons licence would make it illegal for someone to commercially exploit my writing ...

But I digress, the real point of including this was to draw attention to the kind of thing that is going on in the sunlit upper waters of the blog ecosphere. Sure as eggs is ova, the rest of us will endure the ravages of the sharks eventually. So here we get a chance to find out what is going on. And the name of the game is profit and the downside is the rest of us have to pay in time and attention taken away from what we really want to do which is find info and relate to other people and exchange ideas.
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