Splogs

Within the very long winded article 'spam + blogs = trouble'. I came across in the september 06 edition of Wired magazine. The topic of splogs is raised. Splogs = spam blogs and their tricky nature. The spammers or named sploggers who create splogs, sportals, link farms which are all mentioned are described as weeds. "The sploggers always adjust" (pg114) And are of a fast growing problem. They have become one of the features of networked communications. Commonplace!

They as in sploggers dont just create sblogs full of jumbled words, ads and sportals that are soley of one click ads and host to a mass of popular searched keywords. Sploggers also take over abandoned blogs and flood real blogs with bogus comments leading back to their sblogs (the later Ive experience just the other day).

Indeed weeds, but very fast, the splogosphere amounting to 900,000 posts a day compared to the blogsophere amounting to only a third of that figure. It was enevitable but will the internet be smoothered by splogs, I wonder. How do you get rid of a weed. There seems to be many hardwork solutions, stated within the article though many which are doomed to failure I predict.

As I don't think its possible to stop splogs, the answer maybe to aim to reduce the number and the figure of growth. Checking unused blogs and a more powerful filter for the placement of listings in search engines.





























































Hopefully the pages are readable, though a heavy read if they are.