Splogs

As much as hop255 hates spam we think we hate splogs more. After-all spam comes to us and can be filtered or easily deleted. Splogs, on the other hand, demand more time because, in searching for actual content, you need to bring up the page before moving on. Blogpulse has a good set of links on splogs including the wonderful splogspot. Other fun sites for detesters of spam websites (they need a name! How about spambites? Or perhaps an anagram) is spamgoogle (it would be useful if Google posted some stats on splogs etc at the same time as cleaning up blogger) and Splog Reporter.  For background on splogs there is not a bad article in today's WSJ albeit Technorati's Sirfy has been posting stuff on this for a while here and here (first one includes interesting stats). The WSJ has a quote from a Mr Butts, a splog software provider who "... denies that his software is used by spammers. He says it is used by business owners to automatically create blogs based on content pulled from their Web sites." Yeah right! In reality pulled from other's websites!