Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Splogs and Dr. Seuss

I just read this comment from the post in Slashdot about splogs clog blog services. Splogs are basically spam blogs, a program is written which creates a blog and proliferates them all over the place (but the content is garbage and has no meaning to the topic of the blog whatsoever), polluting the blogosphere. In fact, using this method inflates the PageRank on Google of that blog because it links to other valid web sites, but the spam blogs are in no way related to them. Then someone commented about splogs clog blog services should be called splogs clog blog logs. And then this guy started talking about how that is a tongue twister and started other tongue twisters as shown below:

Splogs clog blog logs.
Spam jams Stan's LAN.
Guy's WiFi goes awry.
CERN confirms worm, firms squirm.
Forget cassette and diskette, USB key snazzy.
Nimrods applaud iPods abroad, while tightwads called slipshod clawed screen fraud.
One Phish, Two Phish.
Red Phish, Blue Phish.

Ha, that's funny!

Regarding about splogs, whenever any new technology comes out, there's always going to be people trying to find ways to circumvent it for prestige, to show that the technology is flawed, for fun, etc. That's never going to change. We need to somehow find methods to detect them and have ways to combat them. Kind of creating a digital nervous system like in the body, where the body can fight the viruses. This is the hope of autonomic computing.

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