Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Some of the lamest spam I see comes in the form of comments on my blog posts. Here's an example. Some sounds convincing, but my spam filters (Akismet and Bad Behavior) are incredibly good at catching them. It's particularly entertaining when the spam is trying to link to one of my spam of the day posts.).

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2013

Most of the spam that reaches me comes as emails, but my blog also attracts a fair share of spammy comments. I searched for the first sentence and found over 2 million examples, so it may be working. The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this 1.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 24, 2012

So much lame spam, so little time to blog about it. Here's today's example. No graphics, all caps, the From address doesn't match the "write me at" address. Does it get any lamer? Sender: Tesfaye, Fanuel (f.tesfaye@unesco.org). Subject: HELLO. Text: BUSINESS FOR YOU, CONTACT ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE EMAIL: sydneywalter58@yahoo.com.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 8, 2009

Arcadia Campaigns' Matt Howes, writing on Care2's Frogloop blog, described the testing process: To use [Google Optimizer], you create a web page and variations of that page that you'd like to test (for example, you might want to test if people respond better to a picture of a polar bear or a happy child on your donation page).

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Jana Byington-Smith did a great job of capturing the discussion for the conference’s live blog. You can read all of the conference blogs at [link]. I moderated a panel with the above title yesterday at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. I’m reposting her summary below. The list of links she mentions is at [link].

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 24, 2009

For example, while the home page and the search results page have been redesigned, the articles and forums have not yet been updated. You can read more about the redesign at [link] , whick includes links to co-CEO Marnie Webb's blog and an FAQ page.

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