The following screen shot almost speaks for itself:
RSS has the promise to be a fast, inexpensive, and powerful way to
link people together..So far it has the advantage of being relatively
spam free..
John Palfrey of Harvard’s Berkman Center (and, full disclosure, one of my colleagues at newsilike) coined the battle cry “Don’t Mess With RSS!” yesterday.
Unfortunately, some very big players who should know better are starting to pee in the soup..
Tonight as Nick and I played around with the newsIlike beta, we hit the
following sequence of spam, attributed to BusinessWeek Online! I’ve
enclosed a screen shot that details the crime. Just study the image above to see the evidence in full glory.
While the ads come across as from BusinessWeek Online, close study of the browser address line at the bottom of the page gives away the source: someone called “industrybrains.com.” Ironic name, I presume.
