http://blog.globalreset.org/articles/2006/03/24/enterprise-architect-or-spammer-or-both en-us 40 A Mac OS X Switcher, TiVo Addict, and Objectivist <p>I followed, with some interest, the series of post by <a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/">David Heinemeier Hansson</a> (from 37Signals, creator of Rails) where he took an <a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000577.html"><em>Enterprise Architect</em> to task</a> for some really uneducated comments about Ruby. Reading through the post by this guy (Jimmy McSomething, don&#8217;t want to give him anymore pagerank love than he&#8217;s already getting) it seems that he might be just a little bit retarded (and I mean that medically, not in the mean-spirited sense). There are some people in the comments who&#8217;ve posted that some of his observations are so wrong that it must be a joke. I was kind of wandering if his blog was written by a random Enterprise Architect Blog generator. Off his Blogger page, he has a couple of other blogs which follow much the same format. The big key is the random pictures that he inserts in the middle of the post (some of Rumsfeld, or other politico&#8217;s) which are neither funny nor related to the context of the post.</p> <p>Today I stumbled across some new evidence. I found a trackback on <a href="http://blog.globalreset.org/articles/2006/02/02/productivity-booster">one of my posts</a> to his article. Could it be that his blog-bot is trying to increase his pagerank by trackback-spamming his article to blogs which have discussed Ruby? Even though I&#8217;ve mentioned Ruby quite a bit on this blog, <a href="http://blog.globalreset.org/articles/2006/02/02/productivity-booster">the aforementioned post</a> was not at all Ruby related&#8230; The author of the trackback is the same as his blog title. I tried to see if I could tie the IP address (<em>72.9.234.70</em>) back to him in some way, but gave up on that rather soon.</p> <p>That just struck me as odd. Seems that successfully pissing off the Ruby crowd (or any group which is fanatical) is a good way to get yourself to the top of the google list for the keyword of your choice. For example, what if I called myself a &#8220;First-Rank Knowledge Engineer&#8221; and decided that, based on my expertise in the field, Wikipedia was absolutely the worst source of actual &#8220;facts&#8221; or &#8220;knowledge&#8221; that I could possibly imagine (worse than what a train full of brain-dead monkeys could generate)&#8230; Do you think I could rise to the top of the Knowledge Engineering index?</p> Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:36:00 -0800 urn:uuid:e624f4eb-3c8c-4958-b768-9f3f82848af7 Scott Hughes http://blog.globalreset.org/articles/2006/03/24/enterprise-architect-or-spammer-or-both Technology trackback spam enterprise_architect ruby <p>You may have already acheived your goal of giving yourself more pagerank via association.</p> Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:34:55 -0800 urn:uuid:a9c9f463-376c-4341-b9f2-5eb2d16fd7d2 http://blog.globalreset.org/articles/2006/03/24/enterprise-architect-or-spammer-or-both#comment-309