On comment spam, podcasting, sugar’s effect on the world and why evolution has let breasts get bigger
In this week’s Science and Technology section of The Independent, I’ve written in detail about why comment spammers do it and the market failure involved; Andy Goldberg tunes into the people’s radio - podcasting.
Sanjida O’Connell has an extract from her new book “Sugar”, pointing out that “Our insatiable appetite for sugary products is causing massive environmental damage to some of the world’s most complex and delicate ecosystems”.
And finally Lewis Wolpert tackles the fascinating problem of why (human) breasts are bigger than strictly they need to be.
One other thing. In my piece last week about the “long tail” phenomenon, I should have acknowledged Chris Anderson’s fine piece on this topic in Wired magazine. Apologies, and I do recommend his piece as being (a) more in-depth (b) cool.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- The Bad Hack blog; and more on Intelligent Design (oxymoron?) (1 March 2006; score: 63.61%)
- Spam catcher updated, which I hope will solve problems with nice people being unable to pass comment (26 September 2005; score: 56.35%)
- The wrong way to defend against comment spam (14 December 2004; score: 55.97%)
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December 14th, 2004 at 9:19 pm
Defending against the comment spammers
I agree with The Independent’s Charles Arthur. In an article in the paper, and repeatedly on his blog, Charles complains about the flood of pointless drivel bombarding web log comment systems the world over. I used to think e-mail…