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The Ham and Spam of Weblogs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the both-good-with-eggs dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Will the blogosphere become just as spammy as Usenet? There may be over 10M weblogs out there, most of them seem to be fake spam blogs created to manipulate the search engines. Scott Johnson, CTO at Feedster, complained that "at times we see upwards of 90% of the traffic from Blogspot being spam," and the problem is likely to only get worse. Can blog search engines like Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub filter the signal from the torrent of noise? Or will we have to seek new approaches such as the social filtering used by Del.icio.us or collaborative filtering used by Findory to separate the ham from the spam?"

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    Some blog sites, like those at geocities, are diamonds in the rough. Consider this unique website about Taiwan. This blogsite, unlike the typical blogsite, is packed with references to reputable Western sources so that you can verify that the facts and quotes are accurate.

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  4. Good Sites => References to Western Sources by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Some blog sites, like those at geocities, are diamonds in the rough. Consider this unique website about Taiwan. This blogsite, unlike the typical blogsite, is packed with references to reputable Western sources so that you can verify that the facts and quotes are accurate.

    The Taiwanese have indeed stabbed both the American people and the Tibetans in the back.