Blogging Gets Easier, Except for the Splogginess
There's plenty of news about blogging today, what with Blogger now available for download into Word (today's top blog post and No. 2 top link) and an upgrade to WordPress (No. 11 top link, No. 18 top blog post). The integration of Blogger into Word, jokes (?) Cowboy Caleb, means that "all your blogs belong to Bill" (referring to Mr. Gates); Audio Activism suggests switching to the new WordPress for the features, sure, but mostly for the security.
(In your best Carl Sagan voice:) Millions and millions of blogs...
Everybody's counting blogs (see Feedster's 500 top-rated blogs), but exactly what are they counting? And what's a splog? It's a spam blog, and it's the subject of today's No. 2 blog post, "A splog here, a splog there, pretty soon it adds up..." by blog maverick. Incremental Blogger offers a few solutions, while threadwatch calls the splog post a trumped-up charge by a "knobhead." Here at BlogPulse, we've agreed that a contagious, flesh-eating-bacteria pox on all blog spammers would be a fitting fix, but haven't quite yet figured out how to make that happen. It's been referred to the BlogPulse Infectious Diseases Cubicle. BlogPulse's Trend Graphs, meanwhile, find discussion about spam blogs on the rise:
Cindy's vigil continues
Cindy Sheehan, the subject of more than 8,600 BlogPulse search results today, continues her anti-war protest outside of President Bush's Crawford, TX, ranch, and even managed today kick Harry Potter AND Bush out of No. 1-2 places as the blogosphere's most-discussed personalities. That, as Hermoine will tell you, is akin to magic. Maybe it helps to have an on-the-scene blog.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at August 17, 2005 09:25 AM
