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Blog usability mistakes

Friday, 26 May 2006  

Since they first appeared on the scene towards the end of the last century, blogs have emerged as one of the most effective and popular means of communication. So much so, that lots and lots of businesses use them as a means of establishing and maintaining their reputation or brand.

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Infosys from the inside

Monday, 3 April 2006  

I got a weblink sent to me by a friend, who suggested it would make a very good read, considering it appeared to be written by someone who either dislikes the infamous Indian outsourcing giant Infosys and still works there or dislikes the infamous Indian outsourcing giant Infosys and no longer works there.

In any case, the following transcript first appeared at http://insideinfosys.blogspot.com/ on March 25, 2006. A few days later, and suspecting that this type of negative content won’t be tolerated by the infamous Indian outsourcing giant Infosys for long, I decided to take a copy for offline reading at a more convenient time.

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Looks and smells like comment spam

Saturday, 18 March 2006  

Lately we’ve been getting a few of these types of comments, which seem to slip through the cracks, even though we’re using one of the best anti-spam applications there is:

Name: William Smith | Email: Michael@yahoo.com | URI: http://www.eweek.com/ | IP: 210.100.138.124 Reading your content just made my day. Keep the good work. Green is feature of Small Cosmos: http://abcnews.go.com/ , Rape Boy is very good Grass when Soldier Double Chair Loose , Roll Increase Forecast - that is all that Mistery is capable of when TV is Game it will Do Circle

It looks like comment spam and smells like comment spam. But the websites referenced are not only legit but very popular as well. So, what is it? Perhaps a general attempt to pollute centralised anti spam blacklists?

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Coke Zero (Out of Ten)

Wednesday, 25 January 2006  

Apparently, Coke are pumping in some $18 million on the new “Coke Zero” campaign in the hope of getting lots of yuppies switching across to the new “no real sugar, just artificial sweeteners (but we guarantee that it’s good for you)” fizzy drink.

The new fake taste comes from aspartame and acesulfame potassium, a couple of seemingly popular fabricated sweeteners born in some laboratory, somewhere.

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Blog thieves

Thursday, 12 January 2006  

Q: When is a blog not a blog?
A: When the content is simply stolen, verbatim.

Investment Banking Central is one of those dodgy internet outfits which specialise in stealing other peoples content and posting it on their own website.

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