A bit of old news (I am clearing my “to post” queue!) The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services here in the UK has punished a persistent fraudulent mobile phone spammer. I don’t know that the rules exist yet to allow them to punish them simply for the act of spamming yet, but I’m sure they will come. Fortunately, because mobile phone spammers must pay a few pennies per message the problem doesn’t appear as large as with email spam. Almost the only spam I have received so far on my mobile is spam that has hit the email address that sends to my phone. That works because the gateway provider pays (not knowing it is not a legit message).tifa movie hentaitwink moviemovie white chicksplayer movies media windows gaygallery movie xxxmovies binaries altblowjob movies asianfree bdsm movie streaming samplesmovie blow job samplesa to blue movie ride bus
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Tom “plasticbag” Coates mused a while back about webloggers getting into bed with marketing companies and asks what can/should be done about it.
In the interests of full disclosure, any books I mention – particularly now that I am using Blaxm (which alas does not seem to be taking off) – I link to Amazon using an Amazon affiliate link. So far 46 people have followed those links but none have actually bought books.
It’s not that I even particularly like Amazon or that I expect the money I might get from any transaction to do anything more than perhaps take me to dinner once a year – it’s just that the software exists that makes it easy to make such links thanks to Amazon’s market dominance and if I am linking to Amazon anyway why not get free money if it were offered me?
I also recently received a registration code for some email software because someone who read it noticed I have just written a book about email. I will review it shortly but I assure you that the free license did not influence my review (as you will see when it comes out!)
So far I don’t think weblogging is big enough to make it worth marketers making large scale efforts to co-opt people but it’s definitely something to watch out for – particularly with the avowedly commercial weblogs like Gizmodo.loan aafesloan 450 fico home equityscholarship p loan u advantage ocredit 25,000 unsecured poor loanstudent loan barred statute albertafor loans calculator amorization autoalberta student legal loanspayday loans 1hr$40,000 loan with interest adoption 0no cosigner all loans
