vote in direct proportion to one's contribution."
I Kill Spammers
How's this for a niche blog? The mystery author is known variously as IKillSpammerz or Spam Is Lame. His "deep hatred for email and blog spammers" is tangible. The focus here is on fighting the anti-spam battle more strongly than the norm, mainly by denting spammers' ability to make money.
Highlights
-- Hello! I am bored this evening. "It appears that they just want to reel you in slowly, eventually getting you to purchase "gifts" for the girl you correspond with."
-- A Spammer Responds, re: VPXL / Elite Herbal / Sancash / Genbucks: "Wow. Just... wow This is one of the stupidest--and most fictitious--responses to any posting I have ever posted."
The Social Times
Insightful. Prolific. Interesting. These are just some of the adjectives that spring to mind when thinking about Nick O'Neill's blog. As the name suggests, he usually covers social networking topics, but often looks at them from the entrepreneurial angle.
Highlights
-- The Techmeme Disaster: "The news is now frequently defined by mob mentality ... the loudest and most opinionated individuals survive."
-- Is Twitter Interactivity the Future of Presentations?: "I think a little Twitter intervention may be useful but then again, you are acknowledging the kids that are passing notes."
VoIP Watch
As the title suggests, Internet telephony is the name of the game here, but Andy Abramson also touches on the uses of voice over IP, such as telecommuting and how people access the Internet for voice calls, such as public Wi-Fi.
Highlights
-- Skype's Silverman---Umm, Not Exactly: "How much of a genius does one need to be to realize that the reason many eBay sellers are on eBay is that they DON'T want to talk with their customers?"
-- Can You Hear Me Clearly?: "Audio conferencing is clearly changing from where it was a few years ago ... old-school conference companies should take notice and be getting scared."
SEO Black Hat
Discover the seedier side of the Web search engine optimization business with host "QuadsZilla." Our pseudonymous friend shows you how it works. For educational purposes only, though -- beware of emulating these techniques, for fear of Google's famed Fist Of Death.
Highlights
-- Pizza.com Stolen From Some Schlep for Just $2.6 Million: "$2.6 Million is Ridiculous: ridiculously low."
-- Excerpts from Google Reviewer Guidlines: "What do these thousands of human reviewers look for in a spam site? What can you get away with?"
-- "Hot Sex" Spam Bots: "When you're one of the first to truly abuse a ranking mechanic the windfalls can be enormous."
Private Equity Hub
Private Equity Hub -- or peHUB to the cool kids -- is aimed at VCs, entrepreneurs, and assorted hangers-on. Dan Primack and his merry band of well-connected contributors do a bang-up job of chronicling the ups and downs of the private equity business. Scoops abound.
Highlights
-- Panorama (Finally) Closes Fund: "Debacle or blessing in disguise? That's what I'm trying to figure out about Panorama Capital's decision to end its fundraising drive with just $240 million in committed capital. Leaning toward the latter, but remain open to persuasion."
information aesthetics
Form follows data, indeed -- where else can you find a collection of graphs, video clips, and Web apps that celebrate the universal fascination with data visualization? Author and university lecturer Andrew Vande Moere's collection contains a heavy dose of fringe artistic experiments, such as the recent 3D "data sculpture" of the Minneapolis/St. Paul public transit system.
Highlights
-- visual search engines: "searchme uses an interactive interface resembling Mac's Coverflow in iTunes & Finder, RedZee adopts a similar, but more rudimentary visual metaphor of showing screenshot thumbnails that can be navigated in a seemingly fluid way, while brynsbrain prefers a pseudo-3D interface that known from the 3D tilt viewer."
Ian
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