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Spamming StumbleUpon not Profitable

Being a StumbleUpon member for four years and three months as of this posting, I have certainly seen the evolution of spam proliferation on this ever-increasingly-popular social bookmarking/ reviewing/ networking site.Spam in our SU account inboxes. Spam in the SU forums.

Did Technorati just dump 2000-4000 splogs?
Source: sparkplug9.com

If the numbers that I'm seeing and that Ian are seeing are correct, it's possible that between 2000-4000 blogs were tossed out of the index - splogs, flogs, and who knows what else.

Spam + Blogs = Trouble
Source: Wired News

Splogs are the latest thing in online scams – and they could smother the Internet.

State of the Blogosphere (State of the Union for Blogs Address)
Source: Technorati

An interesting look (with charts!) at the world of blogs as tracked by Technorati. I think this is a sign that blogging is not quite on its way out just yet. Of course, many new blogs are strictly splogs, or spam blogs.

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