Blogspot blogs might be banned from IceRocket, Mark Cuban said, because they are filled with Splog, or Spam Blog.
Other than Cuban’s post itself, TonyG’s comment is interesting, too. He says
I’ve been running a blog host http://www.blogomonster.com for the last few months and I constantly have to remove accounts.
I’m working with my tech team to create bots that scan through the post’s and send me a list of the junk back based on the specific criteria.
Has begun the Splog war.
August 18th, 2005 at 22:57
Spam Blog = Splog : How Is It Affecting The Blogosphere?
I just read a post by Mark Cuban that explained it simply as spam in the form of a blog. What is splog? Spam Blog = Splog Clever naming convention I know, but splog is creating an astrericks next
August 22nd, 2005 at 2:27
[...] IceRocket の Mark Cuban が blogspot は今や Splog の巣窟と化してるから IceRocket から除外するぞと言い出した話の続報です。 [...]
August 22nd, 2005 at 2:49
Splog Reporter Improves Functionality With New Look
The recent release of Splog Reporter was met with much enthusiasm. I received many suggestions and appreciated all of your feedback. The splog URLs have been flying in via the website. However, it did not take long to realize
September 1st, 2005 at 12:04
[...] Blogspot で NEXT BLOG ボタンをクリックし続け、表示された blog のうちどれだけが Spam Blog か、ということを調べた人が Google Blogoscope にいる その結果、実に 60% が Spam Blog だったそうだ これでは IceRocket が Blogspot を検索対象から外す と言い出すのも当然だろう [...]