Comments on: Blogs and Spam: The Next Revolution http://sixohthree.com/154/blogs-and-spam-the-next-revolution The Weblog of Adam Backstrom Fri, 11 May 2012 19:37:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mrG http://sixohthree.com/154/blogs-and-spam-the-next-revolution/comment-page-1#comment-70 mrG Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=154#comment-70 IP address to geographic co-ordinates is pretty easy, but it's not free: You need to license access to this data from John Quarterman at <a href="http://www.mids.org/">http://www.mids.org/</a> -- I did this for a world-map display at the Ontario Science Centre in 1995 (fed the proxy-server through MIDS to project webpage locations on a worldmap above the internet cafe) IP address to geographic co-ordinates is pretty easy, but it’s not free: You need to license access to this data from John Quarterman at http://www.mids.org/ — I did this for a world-map display at the Ontario Science Centre in 1995 (fed the proxy-server through MIDS to project webpage locations on a worldmap above the internet cafe)

]]> By: Adam Backstrom http://sixohthree.com/154/blogs-and-spam-the-next-revolution/comment-page-1#comment-71 Adam Backstrom Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=154#comment-71 Actually, I was referring to the comment on my blog. ;) For anyone else that didn't notice, the commenter linked to this <a href="http://www.ip2location.com/">http://www.ip2location.com/</a> Actually, I was referring to the comment on my blog. ;) For anyone else that didn’t notice, the commenter linked to this

http://www.ip2location.com/

]]> By: matt http://sixohthree.com/154/blogs-and-spam-the-next-revolution/comment-page-1#comment-72 matt Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=154#comment-72 "Finally, a breakthrough in getting RID of SPAM. I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT AT FIRST, but now I know the secret. Just install SPAM KILLER from shadySoft.com and you'll be on your way to inboxes with only the email YOU WANT. Just $49.99! I thought it was TOO GOOD to be TRUE. But it is" Hehe, I could be a SPAM writer. I wonder how much money they make? “Finally, a breakthrough in getting RID of SPAM. I DIDN’T BELIEVE IT AT FIRST, but now I know the secret. Just install SPAM KILLER from shadySoft.com and you’ll be on your way to inboxes with only the email YOU WANT. Just $49.99! I thought it was TOO GOOD to be TRUE. But it is”

Hehe, I could be a SPAM writer. I wonder how much money they make?

]]> By: Brendyn http://sixohthree.com/154/blogs-and-spam-the-next-revolution/comment-page-1#comment-73 Brendyn Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=154#comment-73 I think the answer is simple: destroy them if they spam. *shrug* Can't be that hard, right? :) But yeah, spam has yet to hit my blog, but as soon as it does, I'll be tracking down the IP and banning it. Like McGruff, Take a Bit out of SPAM. I think the answer is simple: destroy them if they spam. *shrug* Can’t be that hard, right? :)

But yeah, spam has yet to hit my blog, but as soon as it does, I’ll be tracking down the IP and banning it.

Like McGruff, Take a Bit out of SPAM.

]]> By: Histrionic http://sixohthree.com/154/blogs-and-spam-the-next-revolution/comment-page-1#comment-74 Histrionic Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=154#comment-74 If I can get fax spam in my voice mail, then it can certainly get in a blog. Let's see this happen with tools like XML-RPC and SOAP, tied to blogging APIs like the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API. Then it's all just an automated procedure call away -- it doesn't even take 15 seconds. If I can get fax spam in my voice mail, then it can certainly get in a blog.

Let’s see this happen with tools like XML-RPC and SOAP, tied to blogging APIs like the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API. Then it’s all just an automated procedure call away — it doesn’t even take 15 seconds.

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