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Every now and then I get comments or trackbacks linking to blogs that excerpt a random bit of text from here, badly formated in a way that makes it clear the excerpting was done automatically by a somewhat clumsy script. Every entry is a random snippet posted by the same script. One of the most annoying things about this script is that it attributes the quote from my post to the person running the splog.

I’ve always wondered what the hell those were about, and whether or not I should keep them.

Today I found out. They’re splogs, spam blogs. I may also be the victim of blog scraping.

That’s it, then. No more. This stuff will be ruthlessly deleted whenever I find it.

My thanks to to Jeff Jarvis at Buzz Machine.