Comment und Trackback spam nervt genauso wie der Spießrutenlauf durch eine Fußgängerzone gefüllt mit Abo-Keilenden Greenpeace Activisten.

Worum gehts? Irgendwer will eine Porno Seite bewerben, und um im Google rank nach oben zu hopsen wird nun ein Haufen von etwa 100 links auf die Seite in meine Kommentare reingestellt, darüber steht die freundliche Meldung "Tolle Seite. Das Himmel ist Grün", also irgendwas das den Anschein ehrlicher Bewunderung meines bloggens zeigen soll. Die links zeigen am Anfang auf irgendwelche Weblogs oder unscheinbaren seiten (bei Trackback Spam ist das so), diese Seiten werden aber irgendwann entfernt und durch Porn ersetzt.

Alsdann, irgendwie kommt in meinem Blog immer noch Comment Spam und Trackback Spam durch und solange twoday.net das Problem nicht löst muss ich mir selber helfen.

Dazu hab ich mir eine seite gebaut, wo ich alle Kommentare in einer Liste sehe (der RSS feed) mit praktischen Links zum löschen der Kommentare.

http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/2006/08/twoday/

falls du ein ähnliches Problem hast, vielleicht hilft dir das.

Ok, who from the Semantic Web guys and girls is going to Burning Man this year?

I am going, and we are blogging here about that:

• http://burningman2006.blogspot.com/

I tried to find you guys by using search engines, but I am not witty enought to get the right results, so blogging and asking this question is probably ok for today.

Here is the story how I tried to find you:

This time I swoogled the semantic web to find out who lives near SFO, which indicates that they may go to burningman.

My first try was to go to swoogle.com, a very interesting website where you may lose hours during your office time. Then I found the search engine at swoogle.umbc.edu.

I tried to search for:

• ns:foaf SFO but this broke. Internal Server Error in /work/swoogle/www/swoogle/3.1/components/com_frontpage/writer.search.php on line 61
• perhaps not search documents, search ontologies instead. SFO - no results
• just entering francisco returned too much.
• refining to ns:foaf francisco, zero.
• at this point, I registered for an account at swoogle, perhaps then more. Hm, no.

Ok, perhaps the search syntax is wrong. Lets go to Intellidimension's Semantic Web Search engine at www.semanticwebsearch.com.

• ah, they have a combobox where you can select foaf files. Lets do that and search for SFO.. Hm, one result, a substring match. woah, they do substrings.
• searching for "francisco" I get one foaf file seven times. It is a livejournal user, joey-francisco.
• ok, now fumbling around with the airport thingy, I tweaked it so that I can finally find Dan Brickley, as an example. this search for a foaf:person with nearest airport EDDG.
• btw: it also works when you search for "any resource": search
• ok, now my SFO search. brought nothing.

ok, change of tactics: shoot straight at the target of burning man.

• semanticwebsearch for burningman. Brings some RSS feeds. Ok, that are bloggers. I need semweb bloggers though.
• perhaps some foaf person said something in interests or so? search, nothing.
• with "burning man" we get two livejournal users.

ok, lets see what the market leader does.

• google for burningman semantic web. 50.000 results. My own blog post on clothes is far on top, first page.
• hm, groucho marx said not to join a club that would accept you. So that high ranked blog entry of myself, hm. Ok, first ranked was a #rdfig scratchpad entry. But the nym user on #rdfig only pointed to a now dead website.
• I limit to 2006. limit to 2006, to get this years burners. My blog post again.
• Looking at the results, I find the blog of Peter Brown at http://www.blogsicle.net/

ok, so I didn't hear of these guys before and I see that this use case is interesting. Anyway:

Ok, who from the Semantic Web guys and girls is going to Burning Man this year?

Gunnar invested much time in the last week to improve his gnowsis experience - adding features he (and everybody else) missed.

read his post on everything that is now available in the gnowsis SVN!

a tag-cloud


a tagging bookmarklet


synchronising two gnowsis installations

e-mail spam, who doesn't know them.

while deleting the spam in my dfki-work inbox, this e-mail survived the 10milliseconds of fame and made it here:
subject: Re: jovedVzlAGRA
... [some viagra price list now] ...
... [a web link i won't place here and I would never click]....

and then a personal note from the spammer:
wife you say? Can anything be done about that? Let me think-yes-
something can be done. Out there, in those so-called civilized planets
nothing could be done. Here it can. For I am Svinjar - and Svinjar can

I can really learn from him.
Here it can!!!! For He is Svinjar, Svinjar the Spammer!!! He, not from the civilized planets, but from "there", where HE can!

For I am Svinjar - and Svinjar can. Could say that forever.

Luckily I believe in Jesus, and not investing my illegally earned spamming revenue in hallucinogenic drugs to write weird messages in my spam. Hey, Viagra sellers - you hire morons to make your mass e-mails, ever thought about that your money invested in spam marketing is going to Svinjar?

I am sitting in front of my beloved 12" iBook, called "Eden".


I love it so much that I installed and use a billion of productiveness and communication tools, like plazes, iTunes, bluetooth, wireless, VPN, Adium, ... and ... hm ... weren't there more? Where are those icons?

Yes, macOsX has a design flaw: when you have many apps running and they place icons in the icon-bar to the upper right - the icons get lost. Applications like safari have such a big menu that the icons are all hidden, bad appl.

Thanks to iBlogging.de story on this problem which uses a good-googleable language, I was able to find a nice solution: the application "no menu bar". This app has only one goal: nothing. So that I can refind all those icons I didn't see for months, ah, there is plazes.... finally gets those precious pixel spaces on my screen it deserves.

nomenubar

Bullocks!

I googled for movie ontologies and all I got was powerpoints.

In what world am I?

then I found this:

• http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/VRP/Examples/moviedatabase.rdf# - hey, are you serious? an IP address as namespace?
• and the IMDB mapping for RDF which luckily my office mate Gunnar Grimnes

please, God, put me into the parallel universe where people do indeed make the semantic web.

There is a congres on "Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien" in Darmstadt at ZGDV on 19th October 2006.

There are many interesting people from Germany giving talks there, Benjamin Novack from the hacker side, Georg Lausen, Andreas Kupfer, Michael Stollberg from Innsbruck, Torsten Priebe from Capgemini Austria, Holger Rath from Empolis, Achim Steinacker from intelligent views, and Leo Sauermann from myself.

If you are a student of university, reduced conference fee for academics is 120€/290€.

• download the Flyer!