UMBC blog research on splogs in Baltimore Sun
By Tim Finin on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 at 9:37 am.Baltimore Sun’s Troy McCullough talks about Pranam Kolari’s work on detecting splogs in his column on Sunday, 15 January 2006. The column also has an associated podcast.
Related posts: • ebiquity splog research mentioned in Wired article; • Splogs in the Non-English Blogosphere; • Fighting kleptotorial splogs;Fighting spam sites - latest battle in the blog wars
On Blogs: Troy McCullough, Jan 15, 2006It seems that everyone has a blog these days - a spot that others can visit to find out what they have to say about something or nothing in particular. Some blogs are widely valued fonts of specialized wisdom, but many are viewed as uninteresting expressions of personal ego. The difficulty of sorting the good blogs from the bad can be a frustrating challenge - one that is seen as a serious threat to what has been viewed as a vital feature of the Internet.
Now, three University of Maryland, Baltimore County researchers have made a far more disturbing conclusion about blogs. After analyzing millions of blog posts, they have determined that the blogosphere is drowning in spam, the pejorative nickname given to unsolicited Internet advertising. Using data collected by weblogs.com, a prominent blog tracking service, doctoral student Pranam Kolari and professors Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi analyzed 40 million blog updates submitted from 14 million blogs.
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January 18th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Troy McCullough’s splog article that highlighted the splog research you are doing at ebuiquity is so critical that I added a piece about it on my blog here http://poetslife.blogspot.com/2006/01/freedom-from-splog.html
Like many, I wondered why there were so many odd, dead-end cul-de-sac blogs out there. Thank you for giving a logical…if unnerving…answer.