Spam Will Eat Itself (29 Apr 2004)

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Spam Will Eat Itself (29 Apr 2004)
Two years ago, Norwegian weblog researcher Jill Walker declared that links are the currency of the web (link: http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/txt/linksandpower.html). Today, inflation is running high in the Blogosphere. Unlike the commercial web, where links are traded like so many copper planchets, the references in blogs seemed, for a long time, to be the gold standard. Commercial blogging was uncool, and blog posts were not for sale. No weblog author would recommend a site unless they really liked it - perhaps because nobody had yet thought it worthwhile to pay off mere webloggers.

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