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Does the Blogosphere Need Liposuction?
Technorati’s report “State of the Blogosphere” claims that they are tracking over 75,000 new blogs every single day. And, that the blogosphere is now over 60 times larger than it was only 3 years ago. That’s a helluva lot of new blogs, who’s reading all that material? A growing problem with the Technorati service is they get tons of update “pings” from blogs every hour and that up to 60% of them are of the nuisance variety, or what they like to call “spings” from blogs that are set up solely to create link farms for click fraud. Technorati currently tracks over 1.2 million posts each day which equates to 50,000 posts each hour!
I know that a number of the free blogging service providers has instituted some strict measures to control the number of spam blogs and link farms being created on their servers but is it enough? On the other hand there are quite a few outcrys from bloggers protesting about their legitimate blogs being shut down by overzealous efforts to control this sticky problem. It’s going to be interesting to see how this all pans out in the future…
Talk about this in the forum…
