This site is rarely updated. benbrophy.com is more up-to-date. - Ben
Trackback Spam
My family blog was attacked by dozens of trackback spams today.
- Trackback
- Trackback is a cool technology for communication between blogs. example: You write something interesting about cheesecake on your blog. After reading your entry, I link to it on my blog, with the additional comment that I think chocolate cheesecake is the best. My blog sends your blog a 'trackback ping.' Then your blog has a link to my blog entry.
- Trackback Spam
- Trackback spam is when you write a blog about cheese cake, and I send you a bogus trackback ping about an online poker website, so that your site will show a link to that site and increase it's google rank.
I'll probably turn off track back on my site now - because no one has left me a trackback on my site since the early halcyon days when there was still a blogging 'community' (back in 2002). Now trackbacks are for scum leaving nasty links around.
It's like People's Park in Berkeley. I read about this amazing park and garden built by volunteers back in 1968. I walk by it on my way to campus now, and it's full of scary desperate people - you wouldn't feel safe walking through it at 9:00 am, let alone at night. Sometimes a free and open community attracts first the best and then the worst from humanity.
(this blog takes neither comments nor spam, which has it's plusses and minuses)