Spam Slam 2: The Squeakquel

For the first time since 2006, I just got smashed by a huge welter of spam, about 150 comments that dodged the spam filter in the last eight hours. I’ve turned off comments on the entries that were getting hit, and hopefully they’ll leave me alone now.
I still wonder what spam is gonna look like in the age of Google Wave. Did you ever watch the big presentation Google did about Wave? (Here’s the highlight reel.) Wave is the goog’s new hybrid: email + chatroom + blogs + social networking + project collaboration + ??? Wave invites are starting to filter out into the networks now, and it looks like it’s going to be a pretty big deal. But I confess that watching the original presentation, all I could think was that this will be a spambots paradise; you’ll be swapping recipes with your mother while insistent bots mess around with the live conversation stream, redirecting all your images to point at porn advertisements and adding dodgy hyperlinks to everything you say. I’m sure the dev team have thought long and hard about the risks but it just seems an order of magnitude more open to exploitation than anything else on the internets. Interesting times, anyway.
(The Squeakquel is the subtitle of the new Alvin & The Chipmunks film. I picked it up in the AV Club comment section, where commenters will sequelise pretty much everything in range with the greatest post-colon subtitles of all time – The Quickening, The Search for Curly’s Gold, The Secret of the Ooze, Smokey is the Bandit, and of course the all-time champion of sequel subtitles, Electric Boogaloo.)