I suppose I should be happy but I’m not sure I am. It appears that my blog has moved from the insignificant long tail to the worth spamming and leeching long tail. Like every blog, I’ve always seen comment spam coming in, but I’m not seeing targeted comment spam picking out the posts with the best page rank and focussing on them. I’m also suddenly seeing splogs leeching my content.

For the most part, I don’t care what people do with my content so I reported them to Technorati (who said they’d look into it and then did nothing) and went back to ignoring them. Unfortunately, it turns out they’re not just sending track backs to my original post, but also to everything I link to which is going too far for me to ignore. So I’m trying out AntiLeech – no idea if it will work or not but it’s worth a try. If my posts suddenly just claim that you’re a splog please let me know.  I’ll be super careful to avoid blocking any of the Planet aggregators that wind up publishing my content – they’re a very useful part of the blog ecosystem so don’t panic if you’re a planet administrator but please do let me know if I mess it up and cause you any problems.