It’s funny, I just launched an internships site on Monday. It’s got a very different twist from YouIntern, but I thought you (and maybe your son too) might find it interesting - it’s called One Day, One Internship.

I know you’ve already seen my entry-level jobs site - One Day, One Job, so let me know what you think of the new one.

In regards to dofollow, there are a number of solutions. One way is to just moderate all your comments. You could also send comments with more than 1 link to moderation via the Wordpress Discussion options. Or someone could build a plug-in that comes up with a more creative solution. Is there already a plug-in that allows you to selectively follow links in certain comments?

When a site owner allow users to add content to his or her website, it comes with responsibility - whether you’re a blogger with 3 readers or Youtube. It might take time and effort, but user generated content is valuable, so the site owner needs to decide if it’s worth the time investment to monitor what people add. Dofollow improves the quality and quantity of some of the content added, but it also brings about spam.

Another solution that might take a concerted group effort, is if all dofollow users are diligent about reporting spam through Google Webmaster Tools. That would be a huge deterrent!

Great links today!

Willy