Liberal Talk Radio

You remember that skit on Saturday Night Live, “Ruining it for Everyone”? It was a talk show where they interviewed the first guy to put razor blades in candy, the first guy to pick up a hitchhiker and kill them, etc. “Next week: we’ll interview Patient Zero!” It was really funny.

I think we can safely say that spammers have joined their ranks.

Email spam sucked. Comment spam in blogs also sucked (trust me on that). Trackback spam in blogs sucks even more. It forced the blogging software developers to design anti-spam packages. Yuck.

Well, now it’s gone one further. Some blog-savvy folks know that the Washington Post has partnered with Technorati to provide links to bloggers who are talking about their articles. It’s a smart move, opening up their pages to bloggers just as the New York Times is circling the wagons with their new TimesSelect service.

Until now, that is. Looks like the spammers have figured out that they can get free advertising on the WaPo’s site by creating a fake blog and linking to a WaPo article. See this WaPo article for an example. Click here to see the page of referring blogs, both of which are spam.

My real web-geek question is why are they using Drupal, and not something easy to set up like Blogspot?