splogs are evil
several of my post have been content-hijacked by splogs. i wrote recently about the ebiquity study on splogs at The University of Maryland — some great research going on there. i followed that post with a splog experiment that you can read about here. i’m still waiting to see how many splog bots hijack my shmula splog bait. i’ll be sure to report about my findings soon. in the meantime, here’s an example of a splog at work:
here’s the authentic post:
and here’s the splog of the authentic post above:
http://good-job-interview.popsportsaction.com/9422/
splogs are evil. it’s amazing that technorati claims that there are over 41.9 million blogs as of today. i argue that the pareto principle works in this case: perhaps 20% are authentic and the others are trivial, evil, splogs. my theory isn’t new: greg discusses it here and here. the splog problem isn’t new either — mark cuban hates them, steve rubel is annoyed by them, and chris pirillo hates google and blogger for acting as the venue of choice for sploggers.
splogs and spings are evil. the social web is incredible, but the presence of splogs and spings can indeed be a very large stumbling block to the future of the web. this area also presents entrepreneurs with incredible opportunities for online appliances or open source-ware to battle the attack of the splogs. windley’s reputation framework might be a good solution to this problem also. splogs are a growing problem and, i anticipate and believe, that much future research and innovation will come from work in this field.
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[...] Shmula was attacked by 30 Spings today. I’ve previously wrote about Splogs and Spings here, here, and the splog bait is here. Splogs and Spings put an undue burden on the blogosphere by eating up resources that should be used for genuine blogs and genuine comments. Moreover, Splogs really jeopardizes the advertising model of the internet, especially contextual ads like adsense, chitika, and others. [...]
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