Comments on: Splogspot in the Splogosphere http://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/ News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:13:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: yvgehvicgalehttp://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-690210 yvgehvicgale Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:01:11 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/17/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-690210 And not huge <a href="http://amateurporn.greatnuke.com" rel="nofollow">amateur porn</a> issues. I attemptto draw back to avoid. And not huge amateur porn issues. I attemptto draw back to avoid.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18223 Anonymous Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:58:06 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/17/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18223 I think that one question that needs to be asked is, "Who benefits?" I've never understood the point of these fake blogs, or "splogs" as you call them. If a blog consists solely of rendom chunks of text with the words "online las vegas casino" linking to an online gambling site thrown in on every other line, does this really increase traffic to these sites? Or is it possible that someone's trying to pour sewage into Blogspot's barrel of wine? Who would benefit from that? Could it possibly be that some of the pay-to-blog services are actively trying to discredit Blogspot and drive bloggers who want to appear "legitimate" towards their services? And has your rant declaring Blogspot "nothing but a crapfarm" with a "1% 'legitimate' minority" of blogs played right into their hands? - D.B. Echo http://www.anothermonkey.blogspot.com/ I think that one question that needs to be asked is, “Who benefits?” I've never understood the point of these fake blogs, or “splogs” as you call them. If a blog consists solely of rendom chunks of text with the words “online las vegas casino” linking to an online gambling site thrown in on every other line, does this really increase traffic to these sites?
Or is it possible that someone's trying to pour sewage into Blogspot's barrel of wine? Who would benefit from that? Could it possibly be that some of the pay-to-blog services are actively trying to discredit Blogspot and drive bloggers who want to appear “legitimate” towards their services? And has your rant declaring Blogspot “nothing but a crapfarm” with a “1% 'legitimate' minority” of blogs played right into their hands?
- D.B. Echo
http://www.anothermonkey.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18222 Anonymous Sat, 22 Oct 2005 05:43:34 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/17/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18222 Well Done Chris, I am really happy to come to know that Google has finally responded to the splog issue. I had sent them a big email a couple months back, but obviously/naturally, in vain. Anyway, this 'splog boom' did do something good, it made the splogspot.com Splog database grow four times its orginial size ;) (funny) Regards, Kailash Nadh Well Done Chris,
I am really happy to come to know that Google has finally responded to the splog issue. I had sent them a big email a couple months back, but obviously/naturally, in vain. Anyway, this 'splog boom' did do something good, it made the splogspot.com Splog database grow four times its orginial size ;) (funny)
Regards,
Kailash Nadh

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18221 Anonymous Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:13:10 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/17/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18221 We recently finished a paper on using SVMs to recognize splogs <blockquote> Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, <a href="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/269/" rel="nofollow">SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Splog Detection</a>, TR-CS-05-13, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 8 October 2005. </blockquote> The paper compares results using different feature sets for the task of splog recognition as well as some other simple tasks. We've submitted this to the AAAI Spring Symposium on <a href="http://www.umbriacom.com/aaai2006_weblog_symposium/" rel="nofollow">Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs</a>. We recently finished a paper on using SVMs to recognize splogs
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Splog Detection, TR-CS-05-13, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 8 October 2005.

The paper compares results using different feature sets for the task of splog recognition as well as some other simple tasks. We've submitted this to the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs.

]]> By: :: jozjozjoz.com ::http://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18220 :: jozjozjoz.com :: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:46:46 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/17/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18220 Hey Chris, Thought you'd be interested in knowing that there's an article in today's WSJ, Markeplace Section, page B1 by David Kesmodel: 'Splogs' Roil Web, and Some Blame Google Hey Chris,
Thought you'd be interested in knowing that there's an article in today's WSJ, Markeplace Section, page B1 by David Kesmodel: 'Splogs' Roil Web, and Some Blame Google

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18219 Anonymous Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:26:11 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/17/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18219 HEY NOW! As I enter my FIFTH year on blogspot, to whom I do pay $, I do take the crap-farm thing personally, resent it, and have posted about it. So there. Also, I resent Google not spending some of their Ooodles on this and am hoping your, um, prodding, Chris, gets their attention when we trailer-trash sblogspotters can't. --jeneane sessum HEY NOW! As I enter my FIFTH year on blogspot, to whom I do pay $, I do take the crap-farm thing personally, resent it, and have posted about it. So there.
Also, I resent Google not spending some of their Ooodles on this and am hoping your, um, prodding, Chris, gets their attention when we trailer-trash sblogspotters can't.
–jeneane sessum

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18218 Anonymous Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:56:56 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/17/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18218 This post, your blog, and indeed your very personality evident from this post make me want to retch. "digital fist-shaking" "Google screwed up, and "we" finally called 'em on it." "Blogspot for certain types of bloggers" Blurrrrgh! The reek of hubris and self-importance is foul, indeed. This post, your blog, and indeed your very personality evident from this post make me want to retch.
“digital fist-shaking”
“Google screwed up, and “we” finally called 'em on it.”
“Blogspot for certain types of bloggers”
Blurrrrgh! The reek of hubris and self-importance is foul, indeed.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18217 Anonymous Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:11:06 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/17/splogspot-in-the-splogosphere/#comment-18217 Chris, I used the word "apparently" because I'm not at all tuned in to what's happening with spam on Blogspot these days. You clearly know more about it than I. I didn't mean to offend. What I do have some knowledge about is what the majority of Blogspot sites are, and, while I'm sure you didn't mean to offend either, I felt the need to respond to "Blogspot has become nothing but a crapfarm." That's not fair to millions of people who enjoy the service -- or the people who work on it. I'm not saying that they don't need to do more, but it's also not true they haven't done *anything*. They've implemented CAPTCHAs on blog creation and comments and a user-flagging system on Blogspot toolbars. I believe these things have helped, but obviously it's a tricky problem, and it's a woefully unresourced team. I'm sure *constructive* suggestions would be welcomed. <a href="http://evhead.com" rel="nofollow">Ev.</a> Chris,
I used the word “apparently” because I'm not at all tuned in to what's happening with spam on Blogspot these days. You clearly know more about it than I. I didn't mean to offend.
What I do have some knowledge about is what the majority of Blogspot sites are, and, while I'm sure you didn't mean to offend either, I felt the need to respond to “Blogspot has become nothing but a crapfarm.” That's not fair to millions of people who enjoy the service — or the people who work on it.
I'm not saying that they don't need to do more, but it's also not true they haven't done *anything*. They've implemented CAPTCHAs on blog creation and comments and a user-flagging system on Blogspot toolbars. I believe these things have helped, but obviously it's a tricky problem, and it's a woefully unresourced team. I'm sure *constructive* suggestions would be welcomed.
Ev.

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