I've been splogged!

A splog is a spam blog, an automated blog which steals posts from other people's blogs in an attempt to make it look like it's got content (so people will come there, click on ads, increase their search engine presence etc). If anybody is interested here are links to the splogs.

http://www.blogged.com/about/room-seven/

Weird, it looks like some splog about...houses. What does this have to do with me? well apparently the post I made about the Liquid Room in Tokyo, because it had the word "room" in it got it tagged. I think it's cute that they left a link in that leads to S45.

http://sweetalissa.blogsome.com/2008/10/12/the-liquid-compass-lives/

I like how random it all is especially the links that lead to other splogs which have been placed willy nilly throughout the text.

So what do I think about my new found fame? I'm slightly amused and not overly worried over the whole thing but here are some links to some good resources other blog writers might find handy if their own content is being hijacked.

http://www.devtopics.com/splogs-spam-blogs-and-stolen-content/

How do you know if you're blog is being ripped off? try this site.

http://www.copyscape.com/

Here's a lengthy and well written piece from Wired about splogs

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/splogs.html

Hope those links will be of use to other blog writers. They were very eye opening for me.