several of my post have been content-hijacked by splogs. i wrote recently about the ebiquity study on splogs at The University of Maryland — some great research going on there. i followed that post with a splog experiment that you can read about here. i’m still waiting to see how many splog bots hijack my shmula splog bait. i’ll be sure to report about my findings soon. in the meantime, here’s an example of a splog at work:

here’s the authentic post:

http://www.shmula.com/?p=31

and here’s the splog of the authentic post above:

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i’ve always wondered what happens when men taking v1agra viagra or cialis get in a bus accident without car insurance enroute to an aruba carribean vacation while playing texas hold ‘em in the casino by the taj majal in las vegas next door to the las vegas hotel that was recently purchased with a mortgage with a low apr, with no closing cost, and can be easily refinanced. this is a shmula splog bait. i’m really concerned about my car injury especially since i didn’t have any car insurance at the time of my car accident which occured by the hotel in las vegas by the asian women playing texas hold ‘em poker. this is a shmula splog bait. the young asian women all have college degrees from night school while holding down jobs at the hotel in las vegas while working another job at the casino with insurance auto car liability and life insurance. this is a shmula splog bait.

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google and mazda joined together to form the earthsearch contest, where contestants will use google earth to find 7 mazda cx-7’s located somewhere in the world.  this is pretty ingenious of google.  best of luck to the contestants.

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update: i failed to include the url for the ebiquity research group study on the splogosphere. here it is — read it: it’s really good stuff!

i am amazed at the innovative research going on with the ebiquity guys. one really phenomenal piece of research is their work on splogs. what are splogs? before i answer that question, here are some facts:

• 57% of online us teens generate content, 40% read blogs, and 20% have are blog publishers (pew november 2005)
• 53% of companies are blogging (guideware, october 2005)

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the season 2 finale of lost was last night. it was so good. talk about cliffhanger — there was a bombardment — no, an onslaught of new information and, as a consequence, raises even more questions. entertaining? very much so.

the really interesting thing about lost, aside from the material, is how it is viraly marketed and how abc is intelligently weaving the “culture of lost” into our collective consciousness. lost is no longer simply a tv show — it is an experience, a community, and a culture.

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i had a nice exchange with greg yesterday. i really enjoy reading his blog and, his post yesterday, was very interesting. he and i exchanged a few times and all of it can be read on his blog. he is also a former amazonian, which carries for me a kindred-type-of-coolness since i also came from amazon. check out his blog.

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in october 2005, aol bought weblogs for a rumored $25 - $40 million. this deal made many wonder the following: how does one valuate a blog?

tristan louis does a nice analysis of that deal and attempts to rationalize the cost per inbound link into the weblogs empire. he uses the technorati ratings and data. based on technorati inbound link data, percentage of overall network linkage each blog represents, he concludes that for the aol-weblogs deal, each inbound link carries a price between $500.00 - $900.00 usd.

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google announced that they will be releasing a new pay-per-click video ad product today. initially, i thought that this would be a cool thing. but, on second thought, i’m not sure.

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