links for 2007-12-26

"If that's got you reaching for the brandy, it gets worse. By 2019 the global traffic will be so vast that every single office worker on the planet will be occupied all day, every day...opening e-mails". Which isn't quite 'destroying the planet' is it?

"we do not have the 'blogroll' upon currybetdotnet . If we was you do the site underline more aged charts of the blogs we review, I’d have to give myself the red cranky for which". Another splog mangling my content

Google announced a new feature of their feed reader: They were going to show all your "shared" items to all your Gmail contacts, starting now. No need to opt-in, no way to opt-out.

The summary is misleading - people are complaining that items in the 'shared items' area are now shared with all your gmail contacts (which automatically includes anyone with a gmail account you've sent mail to), rather than having to manually add them.

Predicts a rise in comment spammers using a 'generate complaints' tool

"In simplest terms, this patent application involves the use of a program that learns as it classifies pages either as a blog or a non-blog". People can patent the darndest things - maybe I can patent mashing newspaper RSS feeds on Chipwrapper?