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		<title>The Educated Spammer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Turnip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stolen content is a serious issue in the blogosphere.   Particularly for me, since my job at CMF Ads is to approve and deny every blog submitted.    If most of the content is original barring the occasional image or video, I let it slide.  (I&#8217;m talking to you, funny cat people).  If the majority of content is stolen, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="margin: 5px; float: left;" src="http://turnipofpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/keats-spam.jpg" alt="Keats Spam" width="218" height="200" />Stolen content is a serious issue in the blogosphere.   Particularly for me, since my job at CMF Ads is to approve and deny every blog submitted.    If most of the content is original barring the occasional image or video, I let it slide.  (I&#8217;m talking to you, funny cat people).  If the majority of content is stolen, then I draw the line and reject the blog.  However, every so often I get a plagiarizer who submits their blog to  CMF  Ads and then flat out denies they stole any content.   This is one such exchange.</p>
<hr size="2" /><strong>Souravrc:  </strong> </p>
<p>This Blog/article site is absolutely original and written by me. What makes you think this is not original? Please clarify. I repeat this is no duplicate content site.<br />
Expecting a reply soon.</p>
<hr size="2" /><strong>Turnip:</strong></p>
<p>http://factoidz.com/john-keats/</p>
<p>http://article-junction.blogspot.com/2010/01/remembering-john-keats.html</p>
<p>At the least you are double posting every article on both factoidz and your own site.<br />
Written by you? Probably. Original? no. Unless you knew John Keats you certainly used sources you didn&#8217;t bother to cite.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s see where you stole your information from. You wrote &#8220;In the same autumn, Keats contracted tuberculosis and he felt that death was already upon him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now let&#8217;s check poets.org: &#8220;Keats contracted tuberculosis, and by the following February he felt that death was already upon him.&#8221;</p>
<p>You wrote &#8221; His posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen was immense.&#8221;</p>
<p>http://ephemera.typepad.com/ephemera/2009/10/john-keats-gravestone-rubbing.html wrote &#8220;&#8230;his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen would be immense&#8221;</p>
<p>Now, you certainly write well enough to rewrite other people&#8217;s work. But to say &#8220;absolutely original and written by me&#8221; is a pretty boldfaced lie, don&#8217;t you think? Congratulations on changing enough words on subjects you Googled to claim expertise on any topic. Expecting a reply soon. turnip</p>
<hr size="2" /><strong>Souravrc:  </strong></p>
<p>Hello<br />
No, I don&#8217;t knew Mr. Keats personally. Neither I knew Tagore or Wordsworth (personally that is). But we all know about any personality or any subjects by going through some information. Can you deny that? As far as I know paraphrasing is on in the blogging industry. Many sites accept articles if someone re-write a subject by his/her own way. I did just that. I never claimed that I&#8217;m a expert of any subject. Show me the proof that I said that. I never realized that it would be better to give the refs. in side my article. That is a point you made and I accepted it. But that doesn&#8217;t mean my article is not written by me or not original.<br />
This is my personal article site. So few of my articles could have been published earlier on different sites. what&#8217;s the big deal? It&#8217;s my article after all not others.</p>
<p>Sorry I don&#8217;t have anything against your site or you. But your message was insulting. I didn&#8217;t say any bold faced lie. I have written articles in my own words. You didn&#8217;t like it it&#8217;s okay. It doesn&#8217;t match your site&#8217;s criteria this is fine to me. At least i&#8217;m not insulting others. I Repeat I haven&#8217;t claimed to be a EXPERT and you are talking unreasonable things.<br />
Best of luck with your site. I DON&#8217;t WANT ANY HELP OR ADS FROM CMF. You can cancel my account if you want. Good luck with your business. I have regards for your site and hope it&#8217;ll do great. Thanks</p>
<hr size="2" /><strong>Turnip:</strong> </p>
<p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a topic for your next article: &#8220;Plagiarism is not only the mere copying of text, but also the presentation of another&#8217;s ideas as one&#8217;s own, regardless of the specific words or constructs used to express that idea.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reason I called you an expert is you are a paid writer for factoidz.com. To quote their website &#8220;Factoidz Writers &#8230; establish a reputation as an expert in specific topics,&#8230; and earn recurring revenue payments on their work.&#8221;</p>
<p>Save me the speech; you are stealing other people&#8217;s content for profit. &#8220;As far as I know&#8221; that is theft. If calling you a liar and a thief is upsetting, so be it. You won&#8217;t be half upset as you are now if I contact the original authors and factoidz.com itself and asked them to explain why they approve your articles. &#8220;paraphrasing is in&#8221; is no more true than &#8220;cheating on taxes is in&#8221; or &#8220;drunken driving is in&#8221;.</p>
<hr size="2" />Being an English teacher at one point in my life, these spammers drive me nuts.  But when someone says &#8220;prove it&#8221;, and I do, the least they can do if run off with their tail between their legs.</p>
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		<title>Twitter Freak?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Turnip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine my surprise when I received the following email message today: Hi, Turnip of Power. Turnip of Power (d4lilr) is now following your tweets on Twitter.&#8221; I did a doubletake.  So I&#8217;m following myself?  Checking the account of this person showed that they had already been suspended.   In that short time they had managed to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine my surprise when I received the following email message today:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hi, Turnip of Power.<br />
Turnip of Power (d4lilr) is now following your tweets on Twitter.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I did a doubletake.  So I&#8217;m following myself?  Checking the account of this person showed that they had already been suspended.   In that short time they had managed to follow 13 people.  Hopefully nobody was insulted by this imposter thinking it was me. </p>
<p><strong>Scorned lover?  Vengeful blogger?  Noob spammer? Who would do such a thing?</strong>  A little Googling of the name d4lilr showed I wasn&#8217;t the only victim.</p>
<blockquote>
<div>Why am I being followed by kadiprescott (d4lilr)? Some dude has a spam acct w/ my name? Greaaaat. &#8230;</div>
<div>_____________________________________________________________</div>
<div>xezabelx: LOL @d4lilr is spamming using my name. Kudos.</div>
</blockquote>
<p>No common thread I see between me and the other two people being impersonated. One was some innocent 19 year old girl from Singapore, not even a blogger.</p>
<p><strong>My best guess: </strong>Seems to be some sort of random annoying twitter bot. Steals a name, follows your friends, then spams them. Stay on your toes, my tweety little friends.</p>
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		<title>Cleaning Up My Twitter List</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Turnip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got another of those dreaded automated direct messages thanking me for following them on twitter.  I didn&#8217;t recall adding this person.  In fact, I hadn&#8217;t  added anyone in over 3 months unless I personally knew them.  Could someone have found a way to force me to follow them though some back door?  Not likely.  Someone thinking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just got another of those dreaded automated direct messages thanking me for following them on twitter.  I didn&#8217;t recall adding this person.  In fact, I hadn&#8217;t  added anyone in over 3 months unless I personally knew them.  Could someone have found a way to force me to follow them though some back door?  Not likely.  Someone thinking &#8220;better late than never to thank me?&#8221;   Lame, but likely.  Thanks for lighting the fire under my rump to remove you and 800 more twitter jerks.</p>
<p>Going through my 1200+ follower list one by one, I removed anyone who mostly had:</p>
<ul>
<li>Marketing tweets.</li>
<li>Retweeted crappy URL&#8217;s</li>
<li>Tweeted some scam or ebook</li>
<li>Didn&#8217;t normally tweet in English</li>
</ul>
<p>That was good for removing about 300 of the worst offenders.  Next up I went to <a href="http://friendorfollow.com">Friend or Follow</a>, a website that shows who is not following you back.  Unlike most twitter app sites, you do not have to enter your twitter password.  (never do that, please) Removing 300 of these jerks who had once followed me was very enlightening.  Some I considered contacts had stopped following me.  So sad!  I&#8217;d like to think they stopped following me because they too cleaned up their list of followers.  Right? Down to following only 650 .</p>
<p>I reopened tweetdeck and something very interesting was taking place.  I actually recognized the people tweeting in my &#8220;All Friends&#8221; column.  In the past I had hid this crap to focus on keywords or groups.  No longer!  But I wasn&#8217;t finished yet.</p>
<p><strong>Who are these twitter whores?</strong>  It was then I noticed some people did nothing but tweet all day.   95% of the noise on twitter was being made by 5% of the users.  You know the type, following/followers 80k+ people.   Since I don&#8217;t give a damn about famous people, chances were pretty slim one of these &#8220;twitter whores&#8221; was ever going to converse in an intelligent manner with me.  So if you had 30K+ followers, and I didn&#8217;t have a very good reason for following you (like knowing who the hell you are.  ie. Barack Obama) then you were removed.  Knowing most of these people got their 80,000 followers by paying some service makes removing them satisfying.  Think about how much time it takes to read, how many emails would fill up your inbox, or actually communicating with 1% of your followers would take if you had that many followers.  Yuck. Thank you again &#8220;Friend or Follow&#8221; for making this so easy through your sorting options!</p>
<p><strong>Even small time twitter pro&#8217;s suck.  </strong>If every post you make has to have hashtags, then you can screw off.  #spammer, #twitter_jackass, #index_me_I&#8217;m_a_douche</p>
<p><strong>Unfollowing is fun!</strong>  As the list got smaller, I started to read the recent tweets and profiles of those I followed.  Many had their own social networking site or web design business.  Other&#8217;s actually had a sense of humor in 140 characters or less.   How come I never saw them on twitter then?  Because all the spammers drowned them out, but no longer.  I&#8217;m down to following 340 people.  If only I could shed pounds as fast as I lose this twitter dead weight</p>
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		<title>Missing Spikes Found!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Turnip</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this morning I was able to duplicate the missing Spike issue on CMF Ads.  First we ruled out members disabling javascript.  Those using ad blocking software would not normally be accounted for by most analytic programs.  Then we ruled out server error, both the clicker and advertiser were being properly counted.  Turns out it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Early this morning I was able to duplicate the missing Spike issue on CMF Ads.  First we ruled out members disabling javascript.  Those using ad blocking software would not normally be accounted for by most analytic programs.  Then we ruled out server error, both the clicker and advertiser were being properly counted.  <strong>Turns out it was an IE8 issue.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Problem: </strong>The Spike URL used target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; as part of the URL.  FireFox had no problem opening the links from Spike in a new tab.  IE8, however, would open each URL in a new browser window.  Unfortunately, if you clicked two Spike URL&#8217;s quickly it would use the same window, not visiting the destination page at all.  This caused Spike traffic to not be recorded, and the visitor using IE8 may never have even noticed.</p>
<p><strong>The Solution:</strong> We changed the URL to force a new window for each link clicked, even those using IE8.</p>
<p><strong>Compensation:</strong> Since this screw up was on our end we feel some compensation is in order.  Based upon the percentage of users using IE8, <strong>all those who have purchased a CMF Spike will receive an additional 10 free clicks for each blog</strong>.  Too bad some took the opportunity to spam members&#8217; blogs with &#8220;CMF Spike being nothing but drop and run traffic&#8221; when they didn&#8217;t have all the facts.  This was an unfair attack upon CMF publishers.  If you don&#8217;t like Spike, don&#8217;t use it, but don&#8217;t dare use it for spam or heads will roll.  We apologize for any inconvenience this error has caused and will continue to improve all aspects of the CMF Ads network whenever an issue presents itself.</p>
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