It was only a matter of time: Chad Hurley, YouTube CEO, has announced that they are going to take a step in the direction of sharing revenue with users of the service.

This is clearly bad news for Revver, and to a lesser degree Metacafe, who have built their following on the fact that users take a slice of the ad revenue.

The BBC have mentioned that the ads might be in the form of "pre roll ads" i.e. shown before the video. If this is the case it would be a bad move for YouTube. I know it's only "3 seconds before a video starts" but it's still very annoying and I think it would have users 'switching off' - Pete @ Mashable seems to agree.

How this will work affect Revver we will have to see.

I've just been over a week without an internet connection. It's horrid!

I wish I could say I'd been on a holiday but that wasn't the case… my router died :/

Unfortunately it didn't go out in style: I didn't witness an explosion of any kind, see any fire or hear anything… It was a few years old, so it was about time upgraded.

Clearly, it didn't take me over a week to buy a new router (I got one Friday) - I decided to take a bit of a break from being online. The best parts were the football (Blackpool) and going to the pub a couple of times.

Anyway, now I have returned I still need to complete 'day four' of banishforever.com which will happen this week. I'm thinking either Tuesday or Friday for that.

I'll be doing a spam count again this week to see by how much it has reduced and then I'll look at reducing the amount even more and I'll give details on how I hope to do that.

Now I am to spend tim egoing through all the RSS feeds I have in IE7…

I waste lots of time each day wading through the spam I receive. I don't tend to delete them, just leave them in my mail box. In fact I never delete emails - I'm VERY disorganised.

In July I took some measures to reduce the number of spam emails I was getting through. I created a new email account and added, as 'aliases', email addresses that spam was frequently being sent to ('abbey@' for  some reason was receiving a lot of spam email!?!)

I checked this account yesterday and it has stored 87,420 emails since last July. WOW… and they're the ones that DIDN'T get through!

I worked out that's an average of just over 500 emails blocked per day. I then counted the amount of spam I was sent yesterday and you can add another 600 to that total. So call it 1,100 spam emails a day.

I’m going try and reduce that number. Spam is getting out of control!

I've enabled an option in MailEnable, my servers email software, to check a DNS Blacklist which will basically prevent any emails getting through from reported open relays and the like. I'll have to see how that goes.

I'll also be adding more aliases to the list I already have and I'll re-report in a week or so on the level of spam continuing to get through.

Is everyone sent this much spam or is it just me?

Well this is odd!

It seems scammers have come up with a new method of extracting large amounts of money from the innocent.

Instead of the death of a wealthy Nigerian bank owner resulting in massive $$$$ gain for you (etc) it's an email from an assassin who has been hired to kill you - unless you can pay him $80,000 to drop the contract! 

Here is an example of the spam email: (borrowed from sophos.com) 

So if you're threatened in the near future… it's most probably a scam

It would appear Dell is suing the owners of the following domains: d3ell.com, de3LL.com, d4ell.com, de4ll.com, dedll.com, derll.com and dxell.com.

The owners of these domains have been redirecting the typo-traffic back to the Dell site via a LinkShare affiliate link. So the domain owners would take a slice of the cash generated from sales via the affiliate link.

Dell have realised that they’ve paid the typo-traffic domain owners and have now decided to sue; they want the domain names handing over, the commissions back and, ‘of course’, damages and legal fees!

I think Dell are in the wrong here, Dell made money from the traffic sent to them from these domains so what’s their problem?

I’m not keen on the idea of registering a domain for misspelled websites or people registering a .net or .org of the same site name BUT if you don’t want someone to register and take advantage of a typo… register it yourself!