A recent wave of blog spamming has come to afflict the mainstream media outlets that decided to catch onto the ‘blog’ epidemic (and yes, it is an epidemic and I know this is ironic coming from just another joe blog<\/a> like myself).<\/p>\n

The first step is to make a blog that displays nothing but advertisements. The second step is to keep your eye on changes on the home pages of such sites like Washington Post or Salon where Technorati automatically keeps track of what ‘bloggers’ are saying. Ping the URL or hide a link to the article in a post, and voila, you have yourself advertisement in the middle of a major online article!<\/p>\n

Today’s example: check out the ‘Who’s Blogging’ section of this front page Washington Post<\/a> article. Yes, it’s free sex movie clips<\/a>, who I believe ranks in between Michelle Malkin<\/a> and Common Dreams<\/a> in terms of relevance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent wave of blog spamming has come to afflict the mainstream media outlets that decided to catch onto the ‘blog’ epidemic (and yes, it is an epidemic and I know this is ironic coming from just another joe blog like myself). The first step is to make a blog that displays nothing but advertisements. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n