Mike Butcher

Journalist tires of comment spammers because of bandwidth costs – so decides to cut access for offending IP addresses! That’s one original move.

Google Sues AdSense Publisher for Click Fraud: Google has filed its first click fraud lawsuit, charging a Texas-based Web site and its owners generated fraudulent clicks on ads in its AdSense program, causing Google to pay them for useless traffic to its advertisers.

I’m late to this but Military.com has bought the blog DefenseTech.org. What this means is that we are on the start of the real curve. Forget the Guardian getting DailyKos to blog – smaller and specialist media companies are starting to acquire blogs and bloggers too. (Thanks to OnlineBiz)

Looks like a few people have noticed what we are doing. I’m happy to oblige with a few quotes.

No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

I went to the IMMA awards on Wednesday. How many interactive advertising and marketing awards can the UK/London take? Three apparently, all from the same publishing company (New Media Age, Marketing Week).

Is this the best example ever for social software? Without the web, probably most Democrat-voting Americans would never have known that most of the world wanted Kerry not Bush. It’s now clear they all knew what we wanted.

I’m a Christian, and I ought to know one when I see one. And the religious Right in the US, which basically now rules the country, are not Christians, they are the new Taliban:

Web sites at the Centers of Disease Control and National Institute of Health were cleared of scientific studies and materials relating to abortion and condom use. Good science was disappearing from government publications and Web sites at such a pace that the Union of Concerned Scientists issued a report in early 2004 documenting and condemning the Bush administration.
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Postscript:

http://fuckthesouth.com

And “Aside from the quickie-divorce Mecca of Nevada, no region of the United States has a higher divorce rate than the Bible Belt.“

Check out the staff of the Londonist, published by the Gothamist. They are all in NYC, and all too hopelessly good looking. Haven’t they heard London people are ugly? Get with the programme guys.

A Blog publishing goldrush has broken out in the UK, about a year after it hit the US in the form of Gawker and Weblogs Inc and others. Since it is so easy to create a blog, one can’t help wondering if hundreds of blogs will start clamouring for a limited number of obvious niches (yet more gadget blogs anyone?) thus creating a mirror image in the blogging world of the competition that already exists in so-called proper online publishing. It may, in fact, end up being the case that the sites with the original content and reviews, say about gadgets, will benefit from all this. Or perhaps many blogs, because of their fast publishing cycle will supplant more traditional models. It’s hard to say. One thing’s for sure, no-one has quite worked out what will happen when a blog, which does not have the rigours of fact checking and peer review contained in a normal journalistic enterprise, falls foul of the UK’s unforgiving libel laws. We shall see.