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      <rdf:li resource="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/31/Welcome-to-the-Splogosphere"/>
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      <rdf:li resource="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/299/Characterizing-the-Splogosphere"/>
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  <title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Splogosphere]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/getnews/html/id/31/Welcome-to-the-Splogosphere</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Splogosphere!

UMBC study estimates that 75% of posts to English language weblogs are spam


Baltimore, December 16, 2005

 A weblog monitoring system developed by UMBC Ph.D. student Pranam
Kolari shows that a new form of spam -- spam blogs or splogs --
has quickly become a serious problem. 

 Splogs are "fake"
weblog sites that have been set up to carry paid advertisements,
promote affiliated web sites by increasing their PageRank, and to get
new sites noti...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-12-16</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/362/Spam-in-Blogs-and-Social-Media-Tutorial">
  <title><![CDATA[Spam in Blogs and Social Media, Tutorial]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/362/Spam-in-Blogs-and-Social-Media-Tutorial</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Spam on the Internet dates back over a decade, with its earliest known appearance as an email about the infamous MAKE.MONEY.FAST. campaign. Spam has co-evolved with Internet applications and is now quite common on the World-Wide Web.


As social media systems such as blogs, wikis and bookmark sharing sites have emerged, spammers have quickly developed techniques to infect them as well. The very characteristics underlying the Web, be it version 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0, also enable new varieties o...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-03-25</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/299/Characterizing-the-Splogosphere">
  <title><![CDATA[Characterizing the Splogosphere]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/299/Characterizing-the-Splogosphere</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Weblogs or blogs collectively constitute the Blogosphere, forming
an influential and interesting subset on theWeb. As with
most Internet-enabled applications, the ease of content creation
and distribution makes the blogosphere spam prone.
Spam blogs or splogs are blogs hosting spam posts, created
using machine generated or hijacked content for the sole purpose
of hosting ads or raising the PageRank of target sites.
These splogs make up the splogosphere, and are now inundating
blog sea...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-05-23</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/216/Spam-in-Blogs-and-Social-Media">
  <title><![CDATA[Spam in Blogs and Social Media]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/216/Spam-in-Blogs-and-Social-Media</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Spam on the Internet dates back over a decade, with its earliest known appearance as an email about the infamous MAKE.MONEY.FAST. campaign. Spam has co-evolved with Internet applications and is now quite common on the World-Wide Web.


As social media systems such as blogs, wikis and bookmark sharing sites have emerged, spammers have quickly developed techniques to infect them as well. The very characteristics underlying the Web, be it version 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0, also enable new varieties o...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-04-02</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/212/Splog-Blog-Dataset">
  <title><![CDATA[Splog Blog Dataset]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/212/Splog-Blog-Dataset</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This dataset consists of 3000 blog homepages, out of which 700 have been labeled as splogs, and another 700 as authentic blogs.


This training set was used in results of three papers, with emphasis on identifying blogs [1], on detecting spam blogs [2], and on analysing the splogosphere [3].


This collection can be used in further experimenting with splogs, or for building filters that could be deployed in real world systems. We, and our academic and industrial collaborators have bee...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-11-14</dc:date>
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