Spammers exploiting Blogspot: In A Whole Lotta Nothing: Blogspot is hurting America, Matt Haughey points out that Google's blog hosting service is becoming part of the typical spammer's infrastructure. Given that the quest for page rank also underlies most of the problems with comment and trackback spam, isn't it about time Google started closing... (Products)

Moving On Up: Kevin Drum has done it. Matthew Yglesias did it. Jonno's d'Addario has done it. And so did Elizabeth Spiers! Is the blogosphere the new "farm team" for mainstream media? Who's next?... (Blogosphere)

Blogging's cardinal sins: Recently, a commenter noted that the links here at RFB are hard to see for some people, meaning they're less accessible than they should be. (The commenter kindly directed us to Dive into Accessibility.) I value feedback like that and will tackle it if need be, but since we will be... (Weblog Concepts)