• Filtering Pilot and ACMA Blacklist - Not just “illegal” material | Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA): EFA’s analysis of the Australian goverment&’s policy makes it clear that it’s not just illegal material being targetted for Internet “filtering”.
• From cutlass to AK-47 | BBC News: A brief history of piracy through to the present day — the real kind of piracy, not “copyright infringement”.
• From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents | Strange Maps: There’s been plenty of discussion about how race (i.e. the fact that Barack Obama isn’t white) affected the US election. Here’s a comparison of the map of cotton production from 1860 compared with voting patterns earlier this month. The resemblance is both uncanny and scary.
• This Isn’t England | Noisy Decent Graphics: Pax Britannia! London-based graphic designer Ben Terrett notices that the UK isn’t always drawn as it should be on maps. All maps, by definition, present a distorted view of the world. But how distorted?
• How This Bear Market Compares | NYTimes.com: Once more the New York Times wins with its superb infographics. Want to compare the current stock market crash with previous ones? This interactive graphic allows you to do just that, clearly and simply.
• Introducing Recession: Simple Advice for Designers | Noisy Decent Graphics: While the blog is aimed at designers overall, this post is about the current world economic recession and includes links to some good infographics to help understand it, as well a rather nice FAIL photo.
• Digital Surveillance Event Recorder | Jaycar Electronics: There’s just got to be some cool uses for a gadget that comes with two infra-red video cameras and records a 10-second burst of low-res video every time something moves. And it costs less that AUD$300.
• Resampled Space | BLDGBLOG: Amazing but probably impossible buildings, assembled thanks to some nifty photo editing.
• Anything Looks Cooler with a NASA Logo | Flickr: Yes, even mundane things.
• Ethics & Principles of Permaculture browse | Permaculture Business Guild: Bill Mollison published these principles in 1980 in Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual (Tagari Publications), but the “Principles for Functional Design” apply everywhere, I think.
• Internet filtering and censorship forum UNSW 27 November 2008 | Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre: A free forum in Sydney later this month discusses Australia’s proposals for Internet filtering / censorship. I;ll be there.
• Economics of Spam | Link: The paper “Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion”, details how researchers hacked into a spam network to measure its effectiveness. This post asks whether the technique of hacking into a spam botnet was ethical.
• japanese bert | Flickr: There’s an uncanny resemblance between this chap and Australian television presenter Bert Newton.

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• … as if you were being filmed (0 comments)
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On Wednesday my Twitter stream was dominated by the Politics & Technology Forum, and I’ll write more about that later. The other highlights this week:

1. MYOB continue to flood me with far too much promotional material, even when specifically requested not to. Losers.
2. People continue to install new software on the very day of its release, discover that it’s still buggy or insecure, and then complain. Do you never learn?
3. The Aurora Hotel in Surry Hills and the C Bar on the corner of Pitt and Campbell Streets in the Sydney CBD have free Wifi.
4. The comedians on stage at The Sly Fox Hotel on a Monday night are 300% more bitter & disturbed than I am.
5. There is no evidence that 17 Massachusetts schoolgirls became pregnant because of a “pregnancy pact”
6. There is not, but should be, continuous 3G or HSDPA phone coverage on the highway between Sydney and Canberra. In some places there isn’t even GSM!
7. “The 7 categorises of satedness: Food. Sexual pleasure. Alcohol. Music. Visual appeal. Amphetamines. Blue cheese. Agreed?”
8. The Concourse Bar at Wynyard Station has Coopers Ale for $4.70 a schooner and a choice of six cocktails for $7 each.
9. “Backpacking” has descended from “travel world for enrichment” to “global party by indulgent drunken arseholes”. Hence, “gas them”.
10. Automatic weapons really do solve so many everyday problems.

[Credit: Cartoon Twitter-bird courtesy of Hugh MacLeod. Like all of Hugh's cartoons published online, it's free to use.]

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The irony about the CeBIT email flood is that it makes them look desperate — yet their PR person told me yesterday that at this point, three weeks out from the start, they’ve already got more registrations than they did on opening day last year. So why do the emails keep coming? My guess is that at some point weeks ago, some executive somewhere signed off on a marketing plan, and now everyone’s dutifully following it. How… old-fashioned.

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Hannover Fairs, the organisers of the CeBIT Australia IT trade show, must be shitting themselves about poor ticket sales or something. They certainly seem desperate.

These guys are spammy at the best of times, sending at least one email a week every week. But this year I’ve received three “Exclusive Limited Offer: Free Exhibition Entry” emails this month alone, plus today another one via the Australian Computer Society — yeah, that’s fuckin’ exclusive, eh? They’ve emailed a “Dear Bloggers” media release and phoned. Gawd!

I was underwhelmed last year and annoyed with the marketing wank-words.

Do these shows actually achieve anything any more? I mean, if you’ve got a new IT product you just tell TechCrunch and the geek world’s blogosphere of feral goldfish do the rest, right? Why herd everyone into a room, except to fuel an industry of hangers-on who make t-shirts and lame promotional giveaways?

[P.S. I am actually going. If nothing else I can collect some high-grade sarcasm for my podcast. But enough with the spam already, Hannover!]

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8990 messages Scanned by MailScanner
253.5 Total MB
6341 Spam messages detected by MailScanner
1117 Messages forwarded unscanned by MailScanner
8 Viruses found by MailScanner
18 Banned attachments found by MailScanner
401 Content Problems found by MailScanner
6361 Messages delivered by MailScanner

That’s pretty much the same as last year. And the vast majority of inbound email connections are rejected for being from known spam sources before they even get a chance to be processed by MailScanner!

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Spammer’s Ode #1

Boobs.

Teen Boobs.
Boobs.

Big Boobs.
Small Boobs.
Boobs.

Naked Boobs.
Boobs.

Bouncy Boobs!

Black Boobs.
Perfect Boobs.
Boobs.

Small Boobs.
Sexy Boobs.
Boobs.

Small Boobs.
Bouncy Boobs.
Baby got Boobs.

Pussy.

Hot Pussy.
Black Pussy.
Wet Pussy.
Britney Spears Pussy.

Teen Pussy.
Virgin’s Pussy.

Teen Pussy.
Young Pussy.
Hot Pussy.
Hairy Pussy.
Tight Pussy.
Pussy.

Pussy Licking.
Britney Spears Pussy.
Britney Spears Pussy.
Dick in a Pussy…
Tight Pussy!

Asian Pussy.
Hairy Pussy.
Young Pussy.

Asian Pussy.
Hairy Pussy.
Young Pussy.

Asian Pussy.
Hairy Pussy.
Young Pussy.

Free ringtones.

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Personally, I don’t think it’s spam. They haven’t directly messaged anyone who didn’t ask to be messaged, and Google did explicitly ask people to make signs.

But I do think it’s tacky. Just like skywriting, it’s splattering your commercial message across the landscape in an uncontrolled, tasteless way.

It tells me this business has so little respect for other people’s fun (well, Google’s marketing event) that the first thing they think of is plugging their own stuff. How cheap.

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Background

This blog gets attacked by comment spam, just like everyone else. Automated software agents (”spambots”) attempt to post comments which link back to the spammer’s website. The more links they generate, the higher their website will rate in search engine results. Just like Ed did the other day, only faster.

Spambots promote the usual stuff — sex, drugs, cheap money and get-rich-quick scams. A bit like a weekend on the Gold Coast. But over the last week, roughly 25% have linked back to Google — some even go as far including the text “Google is the best search engine”!

Could these spambots really be controlled by Google? Well, as I say, they have both motive and opportunity…

Motive

Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 7, the new version of their web browser for Windows. They’ve flagged it as a “critical update”, so every properly-configured Windows PC will download it automatically. The user has to confirm this action, but my experience is that the vast majority of users will always click a button labelled “OK” — usually without reading what it does.

One new feature of IE7 is a search box. Now Firefox has had this feature for ages. Both browsers allow you to choose which search engine you use. But while Firefox is initially set to use Google, IE uses (surprise surprise!) Microsoft’s Windows Live Search — unless you take specific action to set it to something else.

So right now millions of Internet users could be switching to Windows Live Search without knowing it. Naturally Google would want to stop this — especially given that Google’s market share has been declining over recent months.

Opportunity

Google is “only” the world’s 439th company, but that’s still a market value of US$107 billion. And spambots are cheap to hire.

Google could even do it themselves and be difficult to trace. Google’s own software runs on many people’s computers, including Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search. Both update themselves automatically — so either of them could download code for a spambot, fire off a few comments and then erase the evidence without anyone knowing.

But is it really Google?

Have you got a better explanation?

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