March 13, 2006
The Technology Evangelist team continued to hunt innovators as they swung into Chicago about a month ago to meet-up with for Episode 2 of online video series called The Innovators. You may recall Episode 1 which I highlighted recently which included the interview with Derek Franklin. Episode 2 features me...
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January 28, 2006
This past Tuesday (January 24, 2006) spam was the topic of a column by Tom Spring on PCWorld.com. The column explains the next generation of spam and in one section title "Spam Outside The Inbox" covers the emergence of splog or spam blogs online. Splog Reporter was mentioned in the...
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December 30, 2005
Two-thousand five, was a year of big expectations for me and for the most part it lived up to its billing. I felt it was in some ways a year I could do no wrong. Maybe it is because I am the fifth Frank and the five at the end...
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November 21, 2005
del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-21-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber Journalists Who Won't Give Up : WashingtonPost.com "Investigatory journalism" … one of my favorite terms since it was used in a quote by Ben Stiller in the movie Zoolander.The Playlist: Great Online Sources for Finding New Music Some great places...
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November 14, 2005
del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-14-2005 by Somewhat Frank (a.k.a) Frank Gruber It's showtime for Trib's quiet CEO More talk of Tribune taking action.A Breakthrough Few Months for Portable TVA good recap of the feats of television in the last few months. Geez, times are a changin'.Blogpulse Top List Spammed Sounds like...
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November 4, 2005
The WashingtonPost.com published an article today about spam blogs or splogs. I found the article interesting especially this quote by Anne P. Mitchell, president and chief executive of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy and a law professor at the Lincoln Law School of San Jose, explaining how...
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October 28, 2005
An article titled How to Fight Those Surging Splogs was written by Nicole Lee of Wired News and published online yesterday (October 27, 2005). I conducted the interview about a week ago and appreciate the mention of our splog efforts. I am also pleased to announce the creation of Freedom...
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October 19, 2005
David Kesmodel wrote a very comprehensive article in the Wall Street Journal today in regard to the current splog problem in the blogosphere. It appeared in the print version on page B1 and on the WSJ online on the front right widget titled Blog Clog. The article describes the splog...
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October 18, 2005
Splog, or spam blog, is at the forefront of the blogosphere again as indicated by the blog search engine IceRocket’s recent ban of Google Blogger accounts from its search index on Oct. 16. The issue has been mounting steadily, and Mark Cuban recently sounded off about Google’s free blog product,...
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October 17, 2005
I recently read about Sphere the soon to be released blog search in a post by Rob Hof of the BusinessWeek Tech Beat blog. I tried to get into the Beta group but was not able to at the present time but appear to be on the waiting list. I...
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October 16, 2005
Beach Club originally uploaded via camera-phone by Somewhat Frank. I made it to Sea Island, Georgia's Sea Island Resorts safely. The weather has been beautiful. I only have checked email once to receive feedback on a Tribune project I am currently managing. So I have definitely have gotten to relax....
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September 19, 2005
I am happy to announce that Splog Reporter had added yet another way for users to report splog by adding a bulk import list feature. In response to several users requests we added the feature to allow users the ability to upload a comma-delimited file of splog URLs to Splog...
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September 16, 2005
Technorati is hosting the Second Web Spam Summit next week in Mountian View, California. Unfortunately, due to my geographic location (Chicago, Illinois) and my day job, I will not be in attendance to represent Splog Reporter. Jeff Johns is also unable to attend for the same reasons. However, I hope...
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August 31, 2005
BlogDay was created by Nir Ofir in this post which had to do with how the year 3108 somewhat looks like the word blog which somehow sparked the idea. The day was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from...
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August 30, 2005
In case you have not noticed it yet on your own, Splog Reporter has added another way for users to report splog by creating a Firefox extension. It is our intent that this extension will allow users to personalize their Firefox browser to allow them to more easily report splog....
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August 25, 2005
Another blogger has joined the anti-splog crusade by launching the Fighting Splog blog which lists cases of splog abuse. This blogger like I did, "got so fed up with spamming in blogs" and took action. I applaud. Check out the blog if you get a chance and remember to report...
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August 21, 2005
The recent release of Splog Reporter was met with much enthusiasm. I received many suggestions and appreciated all of your feedback. The splog URLs have been flying in via the website. However, it did not take long to realize there was new functionality that needed to be added. So version...
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August 17, 2005
I just read a post by Mark Cuban that explained it simply as spam in the form of a blog. What is splog? Spam + Blog = Splog Clever naming convention I know, but splog is creating an astrericks next to the validity of blogging numbers in the blogsphere as...
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