The scourge of blog spam

2007-06-01

Jessica Baumgart

Renesys, USA
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Jessica Baumgart, an active blogger since April 2003, has contributed to a variety of weblogs on at least seven different platforms, helps lead a support group for bloggers, and eagerly deletes spam. In this article she describes the lesser-known, but increasing problem of blog spam.

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