Today's theme seems to be spam! Robert Scoble points to a Chris Pirillo interview with a spammer.

The interview touches on a variety of subjects including the 'nofollow' tag and RSS spam. One interesting item was his comments on the 'nofollow' tag. He does not see the 'nofollow' tag ending comment spam. The purpose of comment spam is not to hit live blogs (since they will most likely delete the comments) but to hit the millions of dead blogs that people have started then abandoned. Comment spam posted on dead blogs will never be deleted and chance are they also do not have the 'nofollow' tag implemented.

Interesting stuff.