{"id":313,"date":"2005-08-24T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2005-08-24T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T13:25:17","slug":"hot_dogs_spambots_and_japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/hot_dogs_spambots_and_japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"hot dogs, spambots, and japanese comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deleting my way through our daily torrent of spam, I came across a bizarre item that is, if not interesting, at least slightly amusing. The MSN-run site for one of Japan&#8217;s major newspapers, <a href=\"http:\/\/mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp\/\">Mainichi Daily News<\/a>, trackbacked to my <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/in_japan_comics.html\">post<\/a> from yesterday about japanese cell phone comics. They planted a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp\/national\/news\/20050824p2a00m0na005000c.html\">story<\/a> about a part-time employee at a Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog stand in a popular Japanese comics market. Apparently, the employee made some disparaging comments on his personal blog about obsessed comic book fans (known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otaku\">&#8220;otakus&#8221;<\/a>), creating a small uproar and leading Nathan&#8217;s Japan franchisees to issue a public apology.<br \/>\nUnless this is all some joke (it can be hard to tell), they seem to have found my post based on the keywords &#8220;japan&#8221; and &#8220;comics.&#8221; Whether it was a robot scouring the web or a Japanese editorial sub-sub with poor english, I&#8217;m not sure. But it&#8217;s disturbing that a major newspaper might be resorting to spam to promote itself. That&#8217;s usually the province of online poker and penis enlargement (oh god, the robots just perked up, I&#8217;m sure).<br \/>\nIn a way, the trackback does indirectly support my post, in so far as the Nathan&#8217;s Hot Dog incident underscores the significance of comics in Japanese culture. But, c&#8217;mon Mainichi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deleting my way through our daily torrent of spam, I came across a bizarre item that is, if not interesting, at least slightly amusing. The MSN-run site for one of Japan&#8217;s major newspapers, Mainichi Daily News, trackbacked to my post from yesterday about japanese cell phone comics. They planted a link to a story about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[2578],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","tag-japan-japanese-comics-otaku-manga-hotdog-nathans-blog-blogging-blogger-spam-spambot-spammer-trackback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}