The other problem I’ve been having is spam trackbacks getting through … I saw that 115 people had clicked a trackback yesterday and went to take a closer look: sure enough, the trackback’s text content was ‘Click here to see the original blog source.’ I looked the site and it’s basically an auto-scraper, only site readers on Web Urbanist thought they were the original source! So clever, and such a pain.

The virtue of uncov is precisely that they won’t stop ragging on people like Arrington and Scoble. They’re keying on the fact that so much of the tech blogosphere is ego-driven… er, “self-massage”. The guys at uncov are the grit in the ointment.

Sites like f****dcompany I really enjoyed during the collapse of Web 1.0, showing that I wasn’t alone as the company I was at battened down the hatches for doom. I think without that site and Suck I would have gone insane

I enjoy uncov too, sometimes. But nearly every article I read reminds me of that line in “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” where Ben Affleck/Holden McNeil says something along the lines of “this is where the net nerds go to talk about movies and actors they claim to hate yet can’t stop talking about”. The uncov writers strike me as the same group, with different affections. They bash Arrington, Scoble, etc, but can’t stop talking about them.