[Air-L] Blogbots at large?

[Arun Menon]

A lot of comments and responses on my official and personal blogs have been
redirected to similar machine generated blogs. I thought they were spammed
and eventually taken down. Blogspot and Wordpress tries quite hard to keep
out machine generated content, going by some of their help sections on spam
comments.

There was something on AOIR (or a similar list, my apologies if i got it
wrong) that discussed machine generated spam content. Will post it as soon
as i find it in the archives.

Is anyone on the list aware of studies that examined machine generated
content?

Thanks,

Arun



On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Stephen J Cavrak Jr <Steve.Cavrak at uvm.edu>wrote:

> Blogbots at large?
>
> Does anyone here know the story (stories) behind the apparently machine
> generated blog(posts) like this one ... http://j.mp/9Zhv6O ... (nee
> http://dominic.bestestzone.com/2010/09/04/the-story-of-the-barefoot-bandit/
> )
>
> (In this case, bestestzone.com hosts a dozen or so similar blogs, each,
> interestingly, with a different wordpress template, etc ...
> #curiousminds
>
> Thoughts, suggestions, hints, etc, appreciated.
>
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