Blogdex Spam Attack!
I haven't seen this elsewhere yet but Blogdex is being spammed. I've grabbed the current front page here, with an example tracking page.
It's all coming from ubiquitous.nu, so that's easy to block, but meme-spamming is pretty cheap at a domain-name-a-time. Obviously Cameron will filter out ubiquitous.nu links, but what happens when they multiplex these things? I don't think you could automatically distrust anyone making those links, either: after all, in the gossip singularity, it's news when everyone's favourite aggregator gets used as a big ad hoarding. (At least, I'm hoping it is. I'll have to go to Blogdex later and see if this post has managed to sneak in between the ads.)
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Well it was really only a matter of time.
Unfortunately all things which are open to abuse are innevitably exploited by people eventually which is just a sad facet of human nature.
I guess if everyone was honest then the old school search engines would still be ruling the roost.
Bloggers will just have to find ways to beat the spammers and maintain the validity of their listings and directories etc.
It's a shame, a real shame but where there is traffic to be had the spammers will come!