NI Blogs: Benefits Of Blog Spam

During a recent care-free afternoon, Marianne Love/Slight Detour too her dogs on a walk — and spotted interesting sights like the one above. More photos here.

Top Post: I’m a little obsessive. Whenever I log onto my email I often quickly scan the junk folder. Though I’ll occasionally rescue a legitimate message, most of the time my electronic gatekeeper has effectively quarantined mail that’s infected, attention seeking, irritating, too-good-to-be true, perverted or predatory. But the blogging spam filter is a little different. While my email filter is overflowing with ridiculous offers of sex, money and drugs, my blog comment filter includes compliments. I realize these are auto-generated nuisance messages designed to clog the cogs of cyberspace and many of them appear to be written by someone who doesn’t have a great grasp on English, but quite a few are also affirming/ Jill Barville , 3Rs. More here.

• Girl time /A Butterfly Moment
• When banks go wrong /Arch Druid
• Current resident at my home , and: Swallows in January /Bay Views
• Learning to say “may I?” for photo shoots /Blush Response
• Ex-Spokane mayor wants to rob the public! /Community Comment
• The enigma that is Ron Paul /Dogwalk Musings
• Stuff it and the mother of invention /From A Simple Mind
• The watershed moment /Writing North Idaho

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