Dabitch

Wired wrote about referral link spam back in 2002 and interviewed yours truly.

Michelle Delio at Wired contacted me regarding the new phenomena of referral spam back in 2002, writing up "When the spam hits the blogs"

where did it begin? acme complained and then acme the drama queen machine managed one of the worst crashes ever.

Andreas (phpwizard.dk) has a genius idea late Saturday night - industrial-sized fan and a bilsvamp! acme is actually running in this state. See the green light on?

"*Ghost* and *scamads* have had their own festival. It's called Ghost and will run for the first time on October 31 this year.

In my office space, an odd former window looked like an empty sad frame.

I wanted to create one of those velvet paintings, with blacklight colour and thought using my friend Yannakis as the subject would be fun.

Free postcard art

I was mainly using Pitas to practice refreshing how a blog could look, within the html and CSS limitations of

The Collective did interviews with freelancers in their network, including myself where I spoke about Adland. Note how I reply "I started Adland", because I never did call it by the URL, however it was common for other people to mention the URL so that it could be linked.

The Globe and Mail wrote about "All ads, all the time - only on-line" here and it's archived here.

and Åsk Wäppling, an Art Director by day and maverick industry commentator by night. Wäppling is the mistress and founder of ad-rag.com, a web destination for industry news, gossip and rants; her online persona is called "Dabitch".