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Re: http://learntoduck.com/business/who-owns-trust-the-first-click-or-the-second-click

Jenn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:28:36 -0000

Hi Micah, that was a great post.

I think the trust issue is an interesting one to approach because traditional search engines such as google have more to gain from advertisers and less to gain from providing users with the most accurate and trustworthy result.

I think the first line of search trust is a person's own knowledge and intuition. If you're searching for www.learntoduck.com and the first result is www.learntoduck.com, you're pretty sure that it is an authoritative result. If the first result is www.I-SEOed-this-first-result-haha.com, and the second result is www.learntoduck.com, most people will choose the second result because of their own "self-filter". Self-filters are click agnostic. =)

The second line of trust would fall into unknowns or unknowables that aren't caught by one's own self-filter. I agree that the chain-of-trust in the gateway clicks are where lijit can be of most value over the machine-based search engines, even with the Wikipedias and Mahalos competing for audiences seeking authoritative information.

Re: Lijit Uncovers a Douche Bag

Jenn — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:14:14 -0000

Oh Snap!

You know though, the perp could be a non-myyahoolog user and not show up in myyahoolog at all.

Re: 5 Lessons Learned From Gordon Ramsay

Jenn — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:18:35 -0000

I always love the little prayer he says before he tries the establishment's food for the first time -- asking that their food not kill him.

I admit it, I'm a Gordon Ramsay junkie.

Re: Micah Baldwin: Random Thoughts and Public Musings

Jenn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:12:45 -0000

Awwww. Cheer up emo stormtrooper!

Re: #CNNFail: Why Traditional Media Is Failing to Understand The Web

Jenn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:25:35 -0000

You do realize CNN stopped being a "news" source at least five years ago. At best it is a tv network that produces dramatic programming about current events. CNN is the MTV of news.

Re: Amp’d Mobile asset list not full of porn

Jenn — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:08:46 -0000

This doesn't look like a dvd list. It's listed under IP, which would have me think that this is the type of content AMP'd produced in-house to sell to their customers (and for some reason, their receivers think some other company might be interested in purchasing).

Re: Lijit Throws Ads Onto My Site

Jenn — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:51:55 -0000

Hey Micah & Chris,

I have never had google ads (or text ad links of any kind) on any of my sites and I never will -- I think they're ugly and distract my ADD-addled brain.

Call me clueless, but I never saw the ads on lijit before the NewTech Meetup. I should have paid more attention before I put the wijit on my blogs.

I removed lijit from my page after NewTech because I don't want ads on my site, even if the search result page is served by lijit.

I would probably purchase an ad-free lijit solution if the price was right -- and being a Z-list blogger with no visitors, lijit would probably make more than ads from my subscription.

Re: A Losing Battle with Blog Comment Spam? Is Share This Plugin at Fault?

Jenn — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:30:11 -0000

Hi Josh,

I believe we met last week at Opencoffee.

The issue with blogspam, and webform spam in general is, almost all of it is generated by zombie robot armies (yes, I wish I had a photo too).

You can see some replication in sources over time, but it doesn't take much thought or effort by these scammers' to infect more broadband-connected home computers with viruses, worms or trojans that send spam email or spam webforms all day.

I just returned to blogging last week after abandonning a Movable Type-based blog three years ago because every time I'd return to my blog, there would be 3000 comments about pills, spread across a couple hundred posts. Luckily I haven't been noticed by the spammers yet.

Last summer, the spambots discovered one of my oldest web services (http://jenn.com/canadian/canadian.shtml). I chose to write a spam filter rather than abandon it, because it was over 10 years-old and shutting it down wasn't an option.

Four lines of perl and a 150 word "spamword" list syphen off the spam attempt information to a non-visited page (http://jenn.com/canspam.html). So honorary Canadians can now celebrate in a now over 99% spam-free (It is also very mean) environment.

- Jenn

Re: A Losing Battle with Blog Comment Spam? Is Share This Plugin at Fault?

Jenn — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:54:15 -0000

Zombie bots search for known exploitable patterns in websites. Whether it is a PHP/mailto form vulnerability used to sent out regular spam through other peoples'/companies' websites or a WordPress plugin, it's what they go after.

If the ShareThis plugin doesn't speak to the anti-spam filter plugin, then it's likely that the spam is entering though the ShareThis plugin backdoor.

Disqus - Latest Comments for Jenn

Re: http://learntoduck.com/business/who-owns-trust-the-first-click-or-the-second-click

Re: Lijit Uncovers a Douche Bag

Re: 5 Lessons Learned From Gordon Ramsay

Re: Micah Baldwin: Random Thoughts and Public Musings

Re: #CNNFail: Why Traditional Media Is Failing to Understand The Web

Re: Amp’d Mobile asset list *not* full of porn

Re: Lijit Throws Ads Onto My Site

Re: A Losing Battle with Blog Comment Spam? Is Share This Plugin at Fault?

Re: A Losing Battle with Blog Comment Spam? Is Share This Plugin at Fault?

Re: Amp’d Mobile asset list not full of porn