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BBC Diggs Social Media, But Doesn’t Seem To Get It

Last August I wrote about how happy I was to see that the BBC had added social bookmarking chicklets to all of their stories as it suggested that they really understood the way the world of new media works.
Unfortunately it would seem like I was being slightly naive as Patrick Altoft has found what looks […]

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‘Anonymous’ Vs Scientology: Strange Goings On In London

Guess it’s not a great idea to annoy a bunch of hackers then.
Edit: Note I use the term ‘hacker’ in this sense, not the Hollywood sense.
It all started with this. If you’re wondering what the masks are all about, they are from V For Vendetta
Photos by me, Sunday, outisde the Chruch Of Scientology, Tottenham […]

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Blog Spammers Offer Protection Services: Thank God For Askimet

I was just checking the comments on our blog to see if there were any that needed approval (like all sensible people, we use comment moderation). There were two, and one really caught my eye.
hello , my name is [deleted] and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you […]

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Are Toyota breaking the Google Webmaster Guidelines?

It might not be malicious, but whilst looking at the Toyota website today I noticed that they may well be breaking the webmaster guidelines (albeit not as blatantly as BMW did).
Their homepage re-directs using javascript (presumably for tracking purposes) but looking at the source, just under the javascript you may notice the following:
<body bgcolor=”#ffffff” […]

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