Monday, June 18th, 2007
Well, it’s actually Yahoo! who’s doing the fucking, but this time flickr takes the beating.
Long story short, in their immovable servility to Yahoo!’s policies, flickr has finally toed the line and begun censoring content as well…
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
About an hour ago I got this e-mail —sent through the feedback form on the contact page of the main website— from somebody signing as “800 spam mail” on an AOL account, bringing to my attention that the respective feedback form is being used by spammers to send out bulk e-mail and suggesting a solution to deal with it…
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
…or:
“‘How To Spam’ For Dummies”
I know I probably ought to write this in Chinese —for maximum efficiency, if you know what I mean— but I don’t speak the language and anyway, the spam I usually get is in English, so I can take the freedom to assume that the target–so-called–audience can also read the language they so creatively use to fill my moderation queues and mail boxes ;)
I also know I probably ought to avoid singling out a certain country, since spam comes from all around the world and China is responsible for only a tiny slice of it, but you know what? Fuck it, spammers make me feel singled out most of the time…
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