Via Mike Gunderloy, I found this amazingly evil piece of work: a "Mass Blog Installer" tool. Witness the brave new spam world being ushered in by the people behind this - they start off sounding like they offer a valuable service:

f you have been hosting on Blogspot, you know how fast your blogs can disappear.These days Blogger is deleting blogspot hosted blogs ... and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. They are also blocking posts through the API with 'Captchas' and saving them as drafts all in an effort to stop the abuse of their service. Unfortunately, your hard work ends up down the drain. What can you do to save your work and stop the carnage?

Sounds good, right? Until you read down and find out what's going on:

That's right - Google can't delete your blogs if self hosted. I have tested Blogger blogs hosted on my own domains and have not once been shut down or stuck with a post captcha. Now that I have the Blog creation process automated, it is a piece of cake to crank out 100s if not 1000 blogs in one day. After many months of testing and posting, all blogs are intact and generating traffic.

Oh the joy - automated splog creation. This might be why I'm seeing more splog results showing up in my search feeds. These tools are so very proud of themselves, too:

I was shocked at the power of creating a blog network. This shot my AdSense income up to an amazing $135 per day only one month later. I can also report that the sites and blogs have been holding their traffic and income as I write this letter.

This is like that classified ad jerk you see on late night TV, but scamming Google AdSense. They even realize that what they are doing is slimy; that becomes clear when you read the rest of the letter. Ponzi was clearly born in the wrong century...