Spam News
Here are a couple of recent events related to spam. One spammer is suing the man who reported them, claiming that they have lost business as a result. I don't think anyone is shedding a tear for them. The man is asking for Paypal donations to help with his legal expenses.
Also, yesterday Google announced a new tag attribute for links on web sites. The way it works is, any content publishing system can search for links and insert a rel="nofollow" attribute and Google will ignore that link when indexing pages. Hopefully, this will discourage comment spam, which is a big problem for many bloggers.