Tag Archives: Spam

Why do Spammers do this?

By Lee Aase | Published: February 1, 2011
This isn’t a metaphysical question about good and evil. I’m really trying to understand what the motivation or payoff is. Over the last week or so I have been experimenting with BuddyPress as a way of adding social networking features to SMUG. I’ve been impressed with the functionality. Now that I’ve learned some of what [...]
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Blogging 118: Trackbacks

By Lee Aase | Published: November 10, 2008
As I said in Blogging 117, blogs enable conversations, and one key way those happen is through comments. And comments you leave on other blogs have the additional benefit, if you comment thoughtfully, of encouraging readers of those blogs (and perhaps the authors) to visit your blog and see what you have to say. Trackbacks [...]
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Blogging 117: Attracting Blog Visitors through Comments

By Lee Aase | Published: November 7, 2008
Blogs are a conversational medium. As we learned in Blogging 101, a blog is essentially a newspaper. Two major factors that set blogs apart are: Anyone can be a publisher, and Within reason, every letter to the editor is published. I say “within reason” because some people go out and leave meaningless or off-topic comments [...]
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Facebook Friend Rules

By Lee Aase | Published: June 16, 2008
I suppose I have brought this on myself (or maybe that’s just a blame-the-victim mentality), but some recent developments have led me to establish some new rules for accepting Facebook friend requests. I have previously encouraged any SMUG students or even casual readers to add me as a Facebook friend. I still hope you will. [...]
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Blogging 304: Does Google Treat Hyphenated Domain Names as Spam?

By Lee Aase | Published: June 3, 2008
A reader named Andy raises a point I hadn’t considered, and which I tend to doubt, but I’d like any feedback from someone who may know. And because Social Media University, Global is a research institution for social media higher education, in addition to offering practical, hands-on learning, I’ve devised a project in which we [...]
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