You’ve got to love reciprocal link spammers!
Their emails are great!
I got this one earlier today:

Dear owner of http://www.xxxxx.xxxx,
I’m the webmaster of http://www.xxxx.xxxx.
We came across your site on the Internet and feel that it would fit perfectly into our collection of quality software-related links at http://www.xxxx.xxxx.
The Google PR of this site is currently 0.
We’ve already placed a link to your web site along with a description at our site on the http://www.xxxx.xxxx/links38.html page, which we encourage you to check for accuracy.
We’d appreciate it if you place a link back to our site using the following HTML code (just copy and paste it into your links page):
xxxxxxxxx.com – xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxx
If you’d like the description of your site modified, the category changed, or if you have any other cross-promotion ideas, feel free to email us.
Please note that if you don’t place a reciprocal link to us somewhere on your site within a week, the link to your site will automatically be removed from our directory. Please link to us using the code above, and let us know where we can find the link.
Best regards,
xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx
xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
This is NOT SPAM — this is a one-time reciprocal link request. We have NO INTENTION to email you again. You can also reply to this email with REMOVE in the subject line to make sure we’ll NEVER send you any more e-mails in the future.
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I’ve edited it heavily to remove reference to the spammed site and the spammer.
What made me laugh was the footer. If it’s not spam why are you sending it to “the owner of xxx.com”? If you know who I am then you know what my name is.
I also love the way the person using the software didn’t edit the boilerplate email that well and left in the “software related links” line. Considering the mail was aimed at a site to do with the tourism industry I can see that getting a few raised eyebrows…

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There will be a general election in Ireland in the next few weeks and we’ll all have to listen to the various politicians going on about how much they’ll do for the Irish economy.
But do the politicians actually use Irish companies to provide them with services such as hosting and domain registration?
There’s a thread over on boards.ie which is quite revealing.
It seems that Sinn Fein are the biggest offenders of the lot! They seem to be 100% hosted in the US (courtesy of Pair). So much for republicans?
This lack of support for Irish business was also mentioned here as well, and ties in with the GAA‘s total lack of support for Irish jobs.

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Tom Doyle of 2Bscene‘s a dad!
Congratulations and best wishes to both of you (or should I say all three?)

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According to an article in Silicon Republic, Carlow town is supposed to be going wireless as of today.
Niall did a bit of investigating into the article’s claims earlier during the day, but couldn’t find out a lot. Not surprising really when you consider that one of the providers mentioned doesn’t even have a functioning website!
Later this evening he did a bit of “war driving” and found a number of active nodes.
It would be nice if we’d a bit more info. I live about 5 minutes walk from the council offices and the local Fianna Fail candidate managed to send me useless junk mail, so getting something I might find useful would make a pleasant change …

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I got a hardcopy of “The DOGS Directory” with this month’s issue of Irish Marketing Journal (they actually offer an online version of the magazine as well even if it’s not mentioned on their site), however the website that was previously accepting submissions is no longer online.
I’d have expected a “definitive” guide to anything online to have an online presence…
Weird!

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Series 5 of Scrubs is due for release at the end of May.
You can pre-order it on CD WOW or Amazon

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As I mentioned some time ago, the WordPress site does not list ANY non-US hosting companies.
They’re now running an adwords campaign with the text “Top 5 WordPress Web hosts, Chosen by the users & developers
of the WordPress blogging software”
Lovely!
They won’t list non-US hosts and they expect the public to swallow their bull about the listed providers having been “chosen”
So, my question is…
Does anyone know of an alternate blogging software / platform that isn’t so US-centric?

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As promised here are the slides from the talk I gave this afternoon in Mullingar.
IIA Blogging Presentation

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Head Rambles runs into issues with Sky’s customer service:
The Devil Wears Prada but doesn’t speak English
I feel his pain!
Justin Mason explains why Blacklist.ie is rubbish:
Don’t worry about Blacklist.ie
Ken rips into ripe.ie:
Ireland’s leading Web design company puts the rest to shame

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I know I should have mentioned this earlier, but I’ve been rather busy with other things recently….
In any case I’ll be in Mullingar tomorrow for an IIA event:
Using the Internet and Blogging to Increase Sales, which is being held in conjunction with Westmeath County Enterprise Board
My talk will be on blogging in general, which is incredibly vague
Basically I’ll be looking at covering basic topics through to the more advanced ones in about 30 minutes (my allotted time slot!).

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