Sigh. First, it was comment spam (or Link spam, which actually affects this website. Since I wrote my own blogging software, I don’t have comment moderation (who’da thunk that spammers would run around manually entering spam comments into various special-purpose blogs); as a result

, I get a few spammy comments a week (which I promptly delete).

Now, it’s Splogs: a fake blog which exists solely for the purpose of building up page ranks for spammer sites. The splogs usually grab random content from other sources. How does this affect me? As I wrote about last year (Square Dancing in Weblogs), I set up a PubSub subscription to monitor mentions of square and contra dancing. Now, my subscription is basically spamming me with repeated articles. Once one splog gets some piece that happens to mention square dancing, more of them grab the piece. So I get tons of references to the same article, making the subscription much less useful.

Most recently, an article that I blogged several months ago (Square Dancing and Meditation) has been picked up. Maybe that’s a good thing. The original article was kind of interesting; maybe some people will be turned on to square dancing through seeing it in all these fake blogs.