Blog Spam

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Blog Spam, spam en webl0gs

Blog Spam, spam en webl0gs 11/19/2003 09:18 AM

MSN Goes After Blog Spam

MSN Goes After Blog Spam 08/12/2004 09:33 AM
"One good way to make money is to boost your "Google Ranking" by posting comments... Obviously, posting comment spam on MSDN blogs will really jack up your rank, because we tend to get linked a lot..."

Even my bl0g is getting spam!

Even my bl0g is getting spam! 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
Well, it was s upposed to happen sooner or later. My blog is getting spammed. That makes turning the comment feature off very tempting, but until it becomes unmanageable I won't. I appreciate the comments too much :-)The other possible...

SPAM on your BLOG?

SPAM on your BLOG? 11/27/2002 07:45 PM

Blog spam... I give

Blog spam... I give 12/24/2003 12:07 PM
I already have the MT-Blacklist plugin installed, but manual updates to the blacklist aren't cutting it--too much would've-been-caught crap's making it through. Time to break down and automatically update the blacklist. Luckily someone's already got a tool. (Yeah, it's python, but I honestly don't care what's in the Happy Fun Ball so long as it works) At least I get comments mailed so the crap gets seen quickly and doesn't linger, but I'd rather it not be up in the first place....

A solution for bl0g spam?

A solution for bl0g spam? 09/06/2004 09:09 AM
I am currently planning my own CMS geared toward blogging, since I either just don’t like the CMSes I’ve reviewed,...

Rising bl0g-spam

Rising bl0g-spam 11/06/2003 05:07 PM
While it's sad, and more than a little pathetic, blog spam, like all the other sorts of spam, seems to be on the rise. I've been getting more and more comments posted that aren't anything more than links to some pill site or other. Having some of the antispam MT plugins helps,but still, there's a bunch I need to go hand-delete. (After which I generally IP-ban the poster, which has worked as well to cut down on the spam, though I worry about the collateral damage) It's really sad, though. Yeah, it means more work for me, and more maintenance,...

Dealing with Blog Spam

Dealing with Blog Spam 03/14/2005 05:34 PM
For the past few days, we've experienced a bit of a slowdown in the timeliness of our data. To give you an idea, our normal median time between being pinged by a blog and having the data available in...

Blog spam (not the usual kind)

Blog spam (not the usual kind) 02/01/2005 09:47 PM
I got a mail advertising a new Finnish movie blog hosted on blogspot.com. I was going to let it pass quietly and ignore it, but apparently the same person has been mailing other< /a> bl oggers, as they seem to have received the same spam as well. Because spam it is - unsolicited mass advertising, quite illegal in Finland.

Jussi whoever you are: that was really dumb. This is not the right way to gain good publicity. In fact, it's not even a good way to gain any publicity, as I will never link to your blog now because of your spam (and will remember this for a long, long time, too). Stop doing that.

"Tipping Point: Blog Spam"

"Tipping Point: Blog Spam" 06/21/2004 09:19 AM

Porno bl0g spam turns nasty

Porno bl0g spam turns nasty 08/04/2004 08:22 AM
Smut attack via compromised military proxies

Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam

Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam 03/31/2005 05:55 PM
Google objects to CNET staffer's Adsense-bait

Tobias Schlitt's Blog: Thoughts on
Trackback Spam (Services_Trackback)

Tobias Schlitt's Blog: Thoughts on
Trackback Spam (Services_Trackback) 06/24/2005 03:03 PM
Tobias Schlitt has posted this new item over on his blog today with a bit more information on the PEAR Services_Trackback library and his effort to create *the* method to keep comment spam away.

A few weeks ago I announced the release of Services_Trackba ck 0.5.0, which has a new module system for integrating spam protections into your trackback mechanisms. While the most easy filter (the bad word list) worked quite well for the first time frame, but as usual it did not take long for the spammers to work around that with using entitie encoding. Of course to get around that from the anti spam point of view is very simple, too, with simply reconverting that stuff before running the bad word check. But that's not really the sense, because the spam fraction will not need long to come around this, too.

So, basically what I'm currently thinking about is, how to build a (to some degree) reliable spam protection.

He goes on, discussing some of the other options for blocking spam (blacklists, greylists, vertification of the sender) that the package doesn't support yet. He's also looking for opinions as to other methods to include in the library for the future as well...

Blog comment spam solutions and the
coming arms race

Blog comment spam solutions and the
coming arms race 05/14/2004 10:16 PM

Jeremy Zawodny recently wrote something about weblog spam. John Battelle picked up on it today. Six Apart has just released a centralized comment authorization system called TypeKey. I've been thinking about comment spam for some time, and I've got a radical solution - one that I believe is the only one that has a chance at working.

I think that all these blacklists, etc are the entirely wrong approach. They will serve to create an ever-escalating arms race between spammers and bloggers, resulting in the wasteland that we have today with email and Usenet (anybody remember Usenet?)

The problem is one of accountability. Whenever you have a system where someone can insert an unaccountable message into a message stream, abuse always follows. This has happened with Usenet, email, and now blog comments. As long as people see some gain to be had for perpatrating the abuse, and the abusers are unaccountable, they will do so. The protocols are fundamentally broken: for example, they allow spammers to forge From: addresses in email and they allow comment spammers to add arbitrary content to arbitrary blogs. And the authentication services only serve as a minor deterrent - spammers are now using the prospect of free porn to get people to fill in the "only-humans-can-decipher" image codes (captchas) that spam blocking services are using, for example. It is a classic arms race.

Here's my suggestion: Turn off comments altogether, and let people who want to comment get their own blog. When they link to you, they'll get picked up by services like Technorati which will automatically show their comments whenever doing a search for your post. This is what the folks at BoingBoing (and many other sites) have been doing, and it eliminates spam because it enforces accountability - you've got to have a publically addressable place on the net where your words appear - and that place is owned by you. The cost of setting up the blog lies with the commenter, which is the way things ought to be. We're working on some ways to easily show the number of people who have linked to a particular post, in real-time, which will make it easy to show the interesting articles dynamically - e.g. "Blogs Linking To This Post (15)" instead of just "Blogs Linking To this Post". Stay tuned.

Now, this doesn't completely eliminate spam - for example, I could set up a SPAM blog, and create links out the wazoo to all of the major sites. For a while, the SPAM blog site will show up in the Technorati Link Cosmos of each site that it links to, but it soon becomes easy to eliminate - for example, the SPAM site will never get an inbound link from people who I care about, and that can be used as a filter on the inbound links page. The spammer (and his site) would also quickly gain a reputation as a spammer, and could therefore be easily tracked. For example, a set of spam-hunting sites could link to the SPAM site, and you could have a filter that only showed links as comments if less than 2 of the spam-hunting sites linked to the site, or any metric that you wanted. Think of it as a distributed slashdot karma system, if you will. And you wouldn't be limited to using Technorati for this, other sites could come about that do a better job than we do, and you could use them.

Some might suggest that this is a bad system, because people who wanted to remain anonymous couldn't comment. That isn't true - Accountability doesn't mean the end of anonymity, take Salam Pax's blog as an example of this. Of course anonymity (or perhaps pseudonymity?) does bring a set of challenges, like "Why should I trust someone who won't tell me his name?" but these can be worked through if the pseudonymous blogger proves reliable and trustworthy over time.

Of course, you may ask yourself, "If this Sifry guy is so against comments, why does he enable them on his own site?" I have employed anti- comment spam measures in the past, which are working for now. Since I don't get enough blog spam right now to make the tradeoff, but I have no doubt that the day will come. I'm also technical enough to know how to do all this stuff, and my goal is to fix the underlying problem in the system, not to just patch things piecemeal. And I'll admit to not being 100% convinced that this is the right way to go, so I'm testing the waters of both approaches.

And besides, we'll get a whole bunch more bloggers in the world this way. More permalinks are good. Comments and feedback are welcome. :-)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream 06/05/2004 07:31 PM
I am now getting 2,000+ spams a day. There are 1,440 minutes in a day The rate of incoming spams is therefore getting close to the interval it takes me to check my email and dispose of a single spam: By the time I'm done checking, more spam has arrived. That is the point at which the spam droplets form a continuous stream. And that is the point at which no interval of my life will ever be spam-free again....

Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g

Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
This is a new "trend" that I am seeing amongst some of the blogs I follow: People have started reading their keyword logs and begun answering the questions that their visitors obvisouly have. Mind you, some of the questions that...

Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog

Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog 06/18/2004 04:58 AM
0-Click Shopping(tm), using Amazon's Web Services .. Automatic wishlist purchases with Amazon's API .. Make your own wishes come true, once

decafbad.com/blog/2004/06/16/wishofthemonthclub1
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Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g)

Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g) 08/20/2004 06:41 AM
ysearchblog commentators .. background information .. some background info .. weitere Details .. Jeremy Z ..

jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002431.html
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Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year!

Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year! 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing pal Scott Beale informs us that our blog just won Group Weblog of the Year at the Bloggies. OMG! What a huge honor! Thank you, Bloggies. We honestly didn't expect this, and we are deeply moved and grateful. There were many other deserving blogs up for awards, backed by talented folks who work very hard, and we raise our collective pirate-eye-patches in their honor: check 'em all out. On behalf of my blog-mates Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, and David Pescovitz; our wise "band manager" John Battelle; our sysadmin par excellence Ken Snider; and the rest of the team and extended family that makes Boing Boing possible -- a humble thank you. But most of all, we are grateful to you, our readers, for wasting otherwise productive time on our collective scrapbook of "wonderful things," and for pointing us to even more of those wonderful and undiscovered things each day. We're really sorry that we couldn't make it to SXSW in person to accept the award, but we hope you'll join us in celebrating in person tomorrow at ETCON ( all five of us will be in the same place for the first time). Boing Boing sprouted online a little over five years ago, from paper zine roots planted by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. It is a privilege to blog for you. With you, we look forward to another adventurous year of link-discuss to come. Link

Update: Holy crap! Reader Nathaneal Heasley sez, "Not only did BB win best group ‘blog, it won “blog of the year/best weblog overall” – congratulations!" For those keeping track, this is the second year in a row Boing Boing has received these two awards: Link to 2004, Link to 2005. Man. We're speechless, and overwhelmed by your generosity.

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam 12/11/2003 06:15 AM
Congress overwhelmingly passes a bill to fight the online scourge, but critics say the unwanted e-mail will increase because the law will actually legitimize spam. By Amit Asaravala.

Joho the Blog: Video bl0g

Joho the Blog: Video bl0g 08/01/2004 05:01 PM
video blog .. vlog

hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002909.html
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Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up
with your bl0g.

Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up
with your bl0g. 06/22/2005 02:45 AM
Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up with your blog .. Dear Blogger Letter .. David Weinberger

hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004138.html
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The Blog Herald: More bl0g news more
often

The Blog Herald: More bl0g news more
often 12/30/2003 01:34 AM
http://www.blogherald.com/ Yup, that's it.......news about......blogs.......

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:25PM GMT

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam 01/07/2004 06:36 PM
We all know now that the CAN SPAM law is a disaster and is unlikely to do anything useful in the battle against spam. It's also becoming clear that the entire point of the bill was never to stop spam, but to make a few folks in Congress look good (which seems to be the entire point of most politics these days). First, Business Week spends some time comparing the mostly effective federal "Do Not Call" list with CAN SPAM. The DNC list was planned out carefully by the FTC and the FCC, and, while it upset many telemarketers, it was designed in a way to be effective. There was also enough time, and enough publicity given to the list that people knew about it and had the opportunity to sign up for it - while marketers had the ability to prepare on their end as well. With CAN SPAM, however, it was rushed through Congress with little thought towards whether or not it would actually do anything and without any money to actually deal with any of these cases. Meanwhile, the NY Times reports that the sponsors of the bill asked the FTC to sue a spammer the very first week the bill was in effect in order to make a big "splash" so they could pat themselves on the back - even as the spam levels continued to increase. FTC Chair Timothy Muris (who has spoken out against this spam law) apparently laughed them off and pointed out it was impossible to do such a thing. First of all, in order to violate the law, the spammers have to ignore an opt-out request. Then, the FTC would have to track down who the actual spammer was - with no additional funds, because the law didn't provide for them.

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business 11/03/2003 11:40 PM
I get inundated with more and more spam every day, and it's frustrating as anything. I want it to stop. However, if politicians insist on passing bad legislation in their attempts to stop spam, that's not going to do any good. I've already complained about the new California legislation and it looks like I'm not alone. A guy who runs a consulting firm and writes for Business Week points out why California's anti-spam law won't do a thing about spam, but will make life more difficult for legitimate small businesses. He describes a situation where he did a very targeted mailing for a company. It's probably up to your definition of spam as to whether or not you consider his mailing spam. I tend to draw the line on whether or not the mailing was "bulk" - which it sounds like his was. I believe that if the email is truly targeted and personalized about a potential business relationship, then it's hard to call it spam. The California law disagrees. In fact, the sponsor of the bill claims that any email contact between two companies is not legitimate if it hasn't been initiated under some other form. That's simply ridiculous. As I've said before, plenty of "commercial" websites contact Techdirt every day about the possibility of partnerships or links. Under California's anti-spam law, I could charge them with spam. I recently heard from a major technology magazine, asking if I would add them to my Quicklinks box. Should I sue them for spam? According to the law, I could.

Spam king Secure your home PC or you
could be helping send spam

Spam king Secure your home PC or you
could be helping send spam 08/03/2004 07:21 AM
BBC Aug 3 2004 11:45AM GMT

AOL Falls In Love With The Wrong Spam
Stats -- Says Spam Decreased

AOL Falls In Love With The Wrong Spam
Stats -- Says Spam Decreased 12/27/2004 01:32 PM
AOL is claiming that their new spam filter has greatly reduced spam, creating nice looking headlines about less spam. Of course, you could question their findings. The details show that what was reduced was spam complaints. This might be a proxy for the amount of spam that got through to inboxes, or it might just show that AOL subscribers have wised up and realized that reporting spam to AOL doesn't seem to do a bit of good -- and they've just given up on it.

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam 05/20/2004 07:05 PM
Ronnie Scelson is one of the shortlist of spammers who just seems to love publicity. While many spammers like to hide away, Scelson's always willing to talk. He testified before the Senate Commerce Committee today, claiming that he is now compl ying with CAN-SPAM, but threatened to ignore the law if not enough of his spam messages were getting through filters. He actually has the audacity to complain that now that CAN-SPAM is in effect, ISPs should be required to let his mail through. Maybe the filters are a little to thick around his head and the message isn't getting through to him: the reason his spam is filtered is because people don't want it.

New zombie spam technique may send spam
levels through the roof

New zombie spam technique may send spam
levels through the roof 02/05/2005 09:36 PM
Warnings abound about a change in tactics on the part of zombie PC network operators. As a result, spam levels could rise to nearly 95% of all e-mails sent.

Actif Communications Announces GEF, the
Global eMail Format - Best Practice
eMails that Comply with US Can Spam,
Australian Spam Act and EU Directives

Actif Communications Announces GEF, the
Global eMail Format - Best Practice
eMails that Comply with US Can Spam,
Australian Spam Act and EU Directives 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
The risk in sending commercial emails overseas is not so much from the legislators; it is from the ISP�s who have the power to Black List your company. A new email format has been suggested that not only complies to Best Practices it also meets or exceeds the requirements of Can Spam, The Australian Spam Act and the EU Directives. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea 01/03/2005 10:21 AM

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Increase Lawsuits

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Increase Lawsuits 11/14/2003 07:29 PM
I hate spam and would like nothing better than to see an effective anti-spam law put on the books. However, as I've said before, the California anti-spam law is not the right law. Plenty of others seem to agree, and everyone believes that the law won't stand up if tested in court. The problem is what do people do until it's been tested? The other question is who is going to take on this law. Luckily, it won't be the Direct Marketing Association, who I don't trust in the slightest. They say they've burned up all their resources fighting the "Do Not Call" list. At a conference among email marketers, some were suggesting that they should file their own lawsuits under the bill in order to purposely clog the court system with such lawsuits. This seems like typical bad marketing thinking that overburdening a system somehow gets extra attention. The right response is that someone who gets sued for doing something that clearly is not spam is going to have to go to court and get the law overturned. Maybe (and this would be the best) it happens to someone who is not associated with an "email marketing" company, but just someone who sends a perfectly reasonable email and gets hit with a lawsuit.

Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police

Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police 06/02/2004 05:09 PM
Source: ClickZ - Want a real solution to spam? The search engines should agree to publish lists of companies they've banned. That would help consumers seeking SEM firms to understand which to avoid. If they do use a banned firm,...
Grok Description matches for Blog Spam
GrokA matches for Blog Spam

where skin porn and food porn collide

where skin porn and food porn collide 03/23/2005 10:09 AM

It's fun to use google and see what it returns when searching for 'sticky buns' as, well, the imagination is a poor substitute for reality. When food and skin porn collide it gets fairly ugly pretty quickly. Sticky buns are likely the source of inspiration for the Finnish bostonkakku which are served like a pie rather than the individual buns. One of the guys at work quipped that it is served this way because you can feed 20 instead of 8 people.

I figured that since I was making dallaspulla that I'd make the inspiration for texaspulla and bostonkakku so that my test subjects would know just what they had been missing all these years. :) The dough is a snap to make even without a mixer and is much easier to work with than the pulla dough. The only drawback is the time spent waiting for the dough to rise. With a four-day weekend approaching where absolutely nothing will be open and we'll likely have crappy weather given that it's a holiday, what could be better than making a pan of sticky buns and eating them instead of chocolate eggs? These are, by far, the best cinnamon rolls I've ever made and my test subjects consumed them in a shark chum feeding frenzy. Two guys even asked me for the recipe.

Sticky Buns, a.k.a. caramel rolls or cinnamon rolls

Makes: 12 sticky buns
Time: ~30 minutes prep, 3 hours for dough rising
Source: Cook's Illustrated

This recipe has four components: the dough that is shaped into buns, the filling that creates the swirl in the shaped buns, the caramel glaze that bakes in the bottom of the baking dish along with the buns, and the pecan topping that garnishes the buns once baked. Although the ingredient list may look long, note that many ingredients are repeated. Leftover sticky buns can be wrapped in foil or plastic wrap and refrigerated for up to 3 days, but they should be warmed through before serving. They reheat quickly in a microwave oven (for 2 buns, about 2 minutes at 50 percent power works well); they can also be put into a 325F/175C-degree oven for about 8 minutes.

Dough

• 3 large eggs�at room temperature
• 3/4 cup�buttermilk�(2 dl piima) at room temperature
• 1/4 cup�(.5 dl) granulated sugar�
• 1 1/4 teaspoons�table salt�
• 2 1/4 teaspoons�instant yeast� (1 packet sunnuntai dry yeast)
• 4 1/4 cups�(10,5 dl) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional for dusting work surface
• 6 tablespoons�(85g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm

1. In bowl of standing mixer, whisk eggs; add buttermilk and whisk to combine.
2. Whisk in sugar, salt, and yeast.
3. Add about 2 cups (5 dl) flour and butter; stir with wooden spoon or rubber spatula until evenly moistened and combined.
4. Add all but about 1/4 cup (1/2 dl) remaining flour and knead with dough hook at low speed 5 minutes.
5. Check consistency of dough (dough should feel soft and moist but should not be wet and sticky; add more flour, if necessary); knead at low speed 5 minutes longer (dough should clear sides of bowl but stick to bottom).
6. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface; knead by hand about 1 minute to ensure that dough is uniform (dough should not stick to work surface during hand kneading; if it does stick, knead in additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time).
7. Lightly spray large bowl or plastic container with nonstick cooking spray. Transfer dough to bowl, spray dough lightly with cooking spray, then cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap.
8. Set in warm, draftfree spot until doubled in volume, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

Caramel Glaze

• 6 tablespoons�or 85g unsalted butter�
• 3/4 cup�(1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons�corn syrup, light or dark
• 2 tablespoons�heavy cream�
• 1 pinch�table salt�

1. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for glaze in small saucepan.
2. Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until butter is melted and mixture is thoroughly combined.
3. Pour mixture into nonstick metal 13- by 9-inch (33cm x 23cm) baking dish.
4. Using rubber spatula, spread mixture to cover surface of baking dish.
5. Set baking dish aside.

Cinnamon-Sugar Filling

• 3/4 cup�(1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 2 teaspoons�ground cinnamon�
• 1/4 teaspoon�ground cloves�
• 1 pinch�table salt�
• 1 tablespoon�or 15g unsalted butter, melted
• Raisins (optional)

1. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in small bowl.
2. Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined, using fingers to break up sugar lumps.
3. Set aside.

To assemble and bake buns:

1. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
2. Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you.
3. Lightly flour dough and roll to 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm) rectangle.
4. Brush dough with 1 tablespoon melted butter, leaving 1/2-inch border along top edge; with butter remaining on brush, brush sides of baking dish.
5. Sprinkle filling mixture over dough, leaving 3/4-inch border along top edge; smooth filling in even layer with your hand, then gently press mixture into dough to adhere. Add rasins if you desire.
6. Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut cylinder.
7. Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
8. Very gently stretch to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch (45 cm) length; push ends in to create even thickness.
9. Using a serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized quarters.
10. Slice each quarter evenly into thirds, yielding 12 ~1.5 inch (3,75 cm) buns (end pieces may be slightly smaller).
11. Arrange buns cut-side down in prepared baking dish.
12. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and set in warm, draft-free spot until puffy and pressed against one another, about 1 hour.
13. Meanwhile, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place pizza stone (if using) on rack, and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.
14. Place baking pan on pizza stone; bake until golden brown and center of dough registers about 180F/82C degrees on instant-read thermometer, 25 to 30 minutes.
15. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; invert onto rimmed baking sheet, large rectangular platter, or cutting board.
16. With rubber spatula, scrape any glaze remaining in baking pan onto buns; let cool while making pecan topping.

Pecan Topping

• 3 tablespoons�or 50g unsalted butter�
• 1/4 cup�(.5 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons�corn syrup, light or dark
• 1 pinch�table salt�
• 1 teaspoon�vanilla extract� or vanilla sugar
• 3/4 cup�(1,75 dl) pecans or walnuts, toasted in a skillet over medium heat until fragrant and browned, about 5 minutes, then cooled and coarsely chopped

1. Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in small saucepan and bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally to thoroughly combine.
2. Off heat, stir in vanilla and pecans until pecans are evenly coated.
3. Using soup spoon, pour heaping tablespoon of nuts and topping over center of each sticky bun.
4. Continue to cool until sticky buns are warm, 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Pull apart or use knife to cut apart sticky buns; serve.

Podcasting 101

Podcasting 101 04/09/2005 12:57 AM
ZDNet Apr 9 2005 4:23AM GMT

No more (and podcasting)

No more (and podcasting) 02/05/2005 09:13 PM
Last night was the last night alone. After this weekend, she'll now sleep beside me - for a long time, I hope. After a flight back from Germany I clambered to my apartment, stood outside in the snowfall and tried to fish my keys from my pocket. A strange thought hit me: "Whee! Outi must be home!" and an unvoluntary, unstoppable, wide grin spread onto my face. Of course, she wasn't - that was the last night - but I realized the simple idea of her being there made me deliriously happy.

I guess I'm still in love.

(Kuka suomalainen aloittaa muuten ensimmäisenä säännöllisen podcastingin ja mikä se olisi suomeksi? "Podikastaus?" "Tiedostojen jakaminen kannettaviin MP3-soittimiin RSS-syötteitä käyttäen?" "Podaus?" "Taskuradio?" "Ämpärilähetys?" "Ämpäriradio?")

The value of podcasting

The value of podcasting 02/01/2005 08:54 PM
When the buzz about podcasting first started, I wondered what the value of it was. And, even now, some people are still asking that question. I believe I have an answer.

There are obvious ways to criticize podcasting. It’s hard to quote a portion of a podcast. You can’t link to a certain spot in an audio file. Reading text is much faster than listening to it.

It’s kind of like the difference between email and a fax—a fax is a picture of text, while email is text. A podcast is the sound of words.

But all of that is beside the point—the value of podcasting is that people enjoy it. They like the spoken sound of words.

And that’s it. It’s not more mysterious than the appeal of radio. The added bonus with podcasting is that you’re listening to people who don’t have the restrictions of radio. They might even talk about things that interest you.

It’s not a replacement for traditional weblog content. There will always be plenty to read. No worries.

Getting into PodCasting

Getting into PodCasting 12/17/2004 06:38 PM
PodCasting has been a big meme among the hot tech bloggers lately, so I finally decided to check it out....

I'm with Tim on Podcasting

I'm with Tim on Podcasting 01/06/2005 02:41 AM
I was reading Tim Bray's take on Podcasting a few minutes ago and realized that he's done a good job of saying what I've been trying to figure out how to say for a while now. How's that for a long sentence? Anyway, had I not been so behind on my reading, I'd have already read Russell's PodCommuter post, in which he talks about how he's hooked on Podcasting. And I would have been able to talk with him about...

Podcasting

Podcasting 01/04/2005 08:28 PM
I may not entirely get it, but I can’t ignore it, so herewith some thoughts and predictions on the subject, plus obviously, a teeny little podcast...

US rules all porn is child porn

US rules all porn is child porn 06/24/2005 04:04 PM
Prove otherwise

Podcasting explosion

Podcasting explosion 04/05/2005 05:22 PM
TechSpot Apr 5 2005 9:44PM GMT

History of Podcasting!

History of Podcasting! 06/17/2005 03:51 PM

Seems someone with an agenda is over on Wikipedia making changes to the History of Podcasting. Specifically removing Dave Winer from all mentions. This is beyond a travesty, and even though the majority of us that have been in the space for a while know the real history, it upsets me to see people using the WiKi to make changes that attempts to write people, that contributed to the success of Podcasting out of existence.

RSS is the Glue that makes Podcasting a unique audio delivery vehicle, and "Dave Winer" is the man behind RSS 2.0, Granted others in the space made significant contributions, but to remove Dave's part from the history of podcasting is wrong and a injustice.

Getting the History right in my book was important, people will be hard pressed to alter what is on paper. [Scrip ting News]

How Podcasting Works

How Podcasting Works 06/05/2005 10:56 PM
Peter Rukavina: “I’ve been doing a lot of talking about podcasting recently: explaining to people what it is, and how they can do it, and how they can listen, and how it works. I thought it might be useful to provide a very simple step by step illustration of how to ‘subscribe to a podcast.’”

Nokia and Podcasting!

Nokia and Podcasting! 06/06/2005 12:01 AM

I have it on good authority that Nokia is taking a real hard look at podcasting. Being they are the world leader in mobile phones this is a smart move. As far as I can tell, non of them are running Microsoft software in them. I think this is another development that should cause Microsoft to catch up to the train because it is already out of the yard!

Lets see Apple with Podcasting Support in iTunes, Nokia with possible native podcast support built in and storage to boot. Very interesting indeed.

Podcasting The World

Podcasting The World 06/22/2005 02:01 AM

Dearest Steve Jobs... Do be aware that we bought your iPods, and we do listen to podcasts, so please don't limit the availability of podcasts -- free or otherwise -- in the next release of iTunes to only those people who live in countries of iTunes Music Store. Thank you.

(In fact, you shouldn't need to key in your credit card information in order to download free podcasts. That will be so stupid.)

Podcasting Power

Podcasting Power 02/01/2005 09:35 PM

It's hard to imagine giant radio conglomerates like Clear Channel fretting over such harmless-sounding podcasts as "The Dawn and Drew Show." But technology cna pounce on unsuspecting, entrenched businesses. And podcasting seems to hold the same disruptive potential as TiVo, giving everyone the power to listen to the radio shows they want, whenever they want. By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News

Educause Podcasting

Educause Podcasting 03/17/2005 03:26 AM
Educause Podcasting
http://www.edu cause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=788

The latest information on Podcasting from Educause including Pimary Publications (seminars contributed by Educause live), Related Resources (recent community blog content, community contributions [articles, papers, reports], blogs), and Conference Resources (conference materials). This will be listed in a future mp3 broadcast at Listen To Marcus mp3 Broadcasts.

Podcasting maturing

Podcasting maturing 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
For an explanation of what Podcasting is, see the definition at Wikipedia I haven't really mentioned this new technology before. Partly because the content has been lacking - mostly in quality. And the platform used to be only Mac and...

"Podcasting Awareness ~Nil"

"Podcasting Awareness ~Nil" 03/19/2005 02:42 AM

Newsweek on Podcasting

Newsweek on Podcasting 12/17/2004 06:38 PM

Newsweek calls podcasting Tivo for your iPod.

Podcasting tools

Podcasting tools 12/22/2004 01:04 AM
Some ideas for an audio-blogger tool There should be 2 separate apps. 1. podstudio - maintains release plan, and is...

Some news on the BBC and podcasting...

Some news on the BBC and podcasting... 04/14/2005 01:59 PM

The other big news today from BBC Radio & Music Interactive (where I work) is that we're about to open up twenty more programmes - mostly from Radio 4 and Five Live as podcast feeds for people to download. As my semi-ultimate boss said:

"The BBC was the first British broadcaster to podcast when we made In Our Time available last year and this trial will enable us to further explore the editorial, technical and distribution issues involved."

Some of the programmes that you will be able to subscribe to include (in full or part): The Today Programme, The Reith Lectures, In Our Time, In Business, From Our Own Correspondent, Sport sweek, and Fig hting Talk plus highlights and documentaries from Radio 1, 1Xtra and the World Service.

For more information see the BBC Press release and the article in Media Guardian. I'm really excited by this stuff, for a whole range of reasons personally. And with sites like Odeo on the horizon, I can't help but think this whole area's about to explode.

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Podcasting Catches On

Podcasting Catches On 04/11/2005 05:45 AM
Podcasting Catches On
http:// www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/154/report_display.asp

According to the latest Pew Internet memo, more than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing. That amounts to more than 6 million adults who have tried this new feature that allows internet broadcasts to be downloaded onto their portable listening device. This will continue to grow as an alternative form of information dissemination for the persons on the go and listening while they are traveling et.al. I have been broadcasting my Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet as a mp3 file for the past three years and the current April 4, 2005 edition (V3N14) and three years of archives is available by clicking here.

UK DJs backing podcasting outfit

UK DJs backing podcasting outfit 04/12/2005 04:17 AM
DJs Paul Gambaccini and Tony Blackburn are backing a new website offering radio shows to download.

Mainstream noticing podcasting

Mainstream noticing podcasting 12/22/2004 01:45 AM
The front page of the Boston Globe has a good article on podcasting by Peter J. Howe, a staff writer — they didn't farm this out to one of their (excellent) tech writers. Peter writes: If Internet-based weblogs turned everyone into a potential newspaper columnist, and digital cameras let them become photojournalists, podcasting is promising to let everyone with a microphone and a computer become a radio commentator. After the fold, he gets to what the effect podcasting will have on broadcasting: With the ability to mix home-grown creations with an increasing choice of mainstream offerings, we'll get program allegiance,...

Podcasting Do-It-Yourself-Guide Review

Podcasting Do-It-Yourself-Guide Review 06/17/2005 03:50 PM

One of the first full reviews of my book is out and I do want to point out several points that he was concerned about. I went to great lengths to define acronyms as the entered the conversation and sometimes diverging from the train of thought to make sure people understood what specific acronyms meant before resuming the conversation.

And certain topics he thought I covered to deeply but I felt it was important for people to see examples of the structure of RSS as enclosures are the glue that has allowed Podcasting to be unique in the content delivery.

Overall though good review. [reviews.geekstreak.com]

Jobs: Podcasting via ITunes

Jobs: Podcasting via ITunes 06/05/2005 10:55 PM
Here at the "D" conference, Steve Jobs announced the impending addition of a podcast aggregation feature to the Itunes music store -- to go live in "the next 60 days." The idea is, you won't need to use a separate application to make sure the podcast content you want will sync with your Ipod -- you can do it all through your Itunes interface.

"Podcasting is like Wayne's World for radio," Jobs said, and the new ITunes functionality is "sort of like Tivo for your radio for your Ipod."

Jobs promised that the ITunes podcasting platform would be open to all comers; there'd be a simple automated system to get your content included, he said. But it wasn't clear from his demo -- which featured material from professional outlets like public radio stations -- just how grassroots-y the Apple model is going to be.

There was a moment of amusement when Jobs clicked on an Adam Curry podcast that began with Curry complaining, "I've had to restart the show 3 times, my Mac has been acting up like a motherfucker." Jobs just smiled. You have to figure that he knew just what he was playing; it was funny nonetheless.

Some other notable bits from Jobs' Q&A with Mossberg and Swisher:

He defended Apple's suit against Web sites that had published confidential info about forthcoming Apple products, saying that the law was clear here, and the First Amendment ends where breaking the law (in revealing confidential trade secrets) begins.

Pressed to talk about whether Apple would pursue a video Ipod product, he talked about the hardware limits in delivering good video via small devices: "Headphones are a miraculous thing. There's no such thing as headphones for video."

The much rumored Ipod phone? "It's a hard problem." Swisher countered, "You're a smart guy." Mossberg asked why it wasn't reasonable to assume that all portable-device functions -- music, email, voice -- would converge on the cellphone. Jobs' cagy reply: "I thoroughly understand the question, and I'll have to leave the answer to our actions inthe future."

Finally, it seems there's a betting pool inside Apple about how soon Yahoo will raise the prices on their (rock-bottom-priced) new music-rental service ($5 a month when you buy a year). Jobs' bet? Five months.

10 Ways to Optimize Mac OS X for
Podcasting

10 Ways to Optimize Mac OS X for
Podcasting 06/17/2005 03:27 PM
Podcasting and Mac OS X are the perfect marriage - almost. As Apple readies iTunes 4.9 for podcast listeners, podcast creators still need to make some tweaks for optimal performance. Recording a podcast is a resource intensive process. These 10 tips shut down unnecessary background operations, optimize Mac OS X for audio recording and eliminate the trouble spots that sometimes ruin an otherwise great podcast recording. [PRWEB Jun 12, 2005]

"How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get
Podcasts and also make your own)"

"How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get
Podcasts and also make your own)" 10/07/2004 04:15 PM

Podcasting Sneaks into Business

Podcasting Sneaks into Business 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

"Aherm... Is this on, Sheila? Yeah? Are we rolling. Oh, I see, my voice shows up on the screen. Ok. Hello, fellow salesmen. This is my inaugural podcast which will be sent to our entire sales force. First things first. These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. To you, these are gold; you do not get these. Because to give them to you would be throwing them away. Put that coffee DOWN! Coffee is for closers!"

Paradyne, the networking company, is diving into podcasts for internal communications. "We've seen such good results with podcasts," writes marketing manager Eric Knapp in an e-mail, "that we're thinking of issuing iPods to our entire sales force." Next up for Paradyne? Video podcasts for training within a month or two.

Giving iPods to the sales force [BusinessWeek]

NetNewsWire gets podcasting support

NetNewsWire gets podcasting support 01/03/2005 01:44 AM
Ranchero Software has released NetNewsWire 2.0b10, a new beta version of its popular RSS news reader...

Atom has better podcasting support than
RSS

Atom has better podcasting support than
RSS 06/05/2005 11:32 PM


Podcasting originated as a feature of RSS, but as the world moves to the new standard Atom format, podcasters will too. Atom can support podcasting through the <link> element. As is the case with RSS 2.0 based podcasts, you can only have one podcast per entry. But, with Atom you can have a different representation for each language and for each content-type. For example, if you want to make a podcast available in both English and German and in both MP3 and WMV formats, you can do it by adding links like those below to the entries in your feed:

   <link
href=”http://example.com/podcasts/show001-usenglish.mpg” 
       hreflang=”en-US” length=”21472922” type=”audio/mpg”
/>

   <link
href=”http://example.com/podcasts/show001-usenglish.wmv” 
       hreflang=”en-US” length=”23889921” type=”audio/wmv”
/>

   <link href=”http://example.com/podcasts/show001-german.mp3” 
       hreflang=”de-DE” length=”20032879” type=”audio/mpg”
/>

   <link href=”http://example.com/podcasts/show001-german.wmv” 
       hreflang=”de-DE” length=”19907766” type=”audio/wmv”
/>

Disclaimer: Atom is a work in progress (but nearl y complete). This is based on Atom format draft 08. Atom experts: did I get something wrong in the above example?

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