Cognitive Dissidents

I've been going through the comments and changing the spam URLs to sensible ones ... while doing so I've tracked down some of the blogs that are also being spammed or quoted - there are some real gems - this is more fun than technorati

I recommend this article Less than Size Zero from Rollertrain - somebody used the last line of the article for a piece of porn spam - the article is MUCH more interesting.

Next up was googling for people who had been spammed with the comment "Fear, loathing, and perfunctory seduction" - who else had this character picked?

Well there is this great story about a 48 cylinder motorcycle that I highly recommend. Three years in the making and 48 cylinders does not an elegant bike make!!

Next up is xavodim which seems like a nice sensible blog about web design and development that was good enough to make it into my RSS reader - thanks spammer!!

Moving along nicely we come to the article Can I Still Call Google GouGou "Doggy" 狗狗?: Cultural Implications of Google’s New Chinese Name-谷歌 - yet another sensible blog which made it into my RSS reader.

I though the spammer might have taste .... but next up was some kind of financial blog which has severe comment moderations problems ... no seriously ...

Andy Wibbels "the original blogging evangelist" - had one of those "40 things you Wanted to Know about Blogging" articles which I actually hadn't read yet and will add to my list of "100 articles about blogging you need to read" ...

I really tried hard to figure out what Acting to Improve was all about - but after two paragraphs I gave up ... no sorry I just tried reading it again and I don't get it - maybe wiser minds than mine can see it ... try this quote:

I believe that a small first person action research study such as mine can only make small claims of impact. The main impact has been on myself and on my own practice. This impact does not easily lend itself to measurement, these are subtle shifts in my attitudes and thinking. There is some potential impact on my professional development in that the research moves me nearer to needs identified in my mission statement in my personal development plan at the end of year 1.

I guess I should move swiftly on to NY Metro who have a story about a cinematographers strike - why did the spammer pick on that?

In fact why did the spammer pick any of the blogs that he/she spammed? There is no rhyme nor reason to any of the choices - and there is no discernable pattern to the blogs chosen - I've just picked out the interesting ones from the first Google results page ....

Still I found a couple of blogs I didn't know about - maybe I'll spamtrack some other blog comments and see what else emerges.

The site being promoted? No idea - and if the spammer thinks I'd link to it they are completely mad ... and I am still no closer to finding out where the line "fear, loathing and perfunctory seduction" originally came from.

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