Like Honey to Spammers: It’s All About Jakob, Baby

What’s with this post? Why is “Jakob Nielsen, Holiday Mixer” *the* post of choice for a panoply of comment spammers? I’ve had like 100 different comment spams on this post, and for the life of me, I can’t determine why, save one thing: I linked to Cory. No….wait. I linked to Shona Brown’s book. No… I linked to pictures of Mt. Tam too, and a picture of Berkeley. And to Jakob’s site. And…oh God…to Joi as well. Is there rhyme or reason to this?

If I deleted this post from my archives, I’d have about 25% less spam than I do now. At least, until they chose the next favorite post.

So in the spirit of Dan Gillmor’s maxim – “My readers know way more than I do” – what gives?

(Yep, I’ve repeated the links, for anyone keeping score…let’s see if this post attracts them too…)