A new study at UMBC eBiquity Research Group at the University of Maryland shows that almost three out of four pings to blog servers are from spam blogs (splogs). Those source of spings constitute 50% of all claimed blogs. They claimed that their detection mechanism is close to 90% accurate.

Based on the interestingness of this preliminary statistics, scope for further analysis and interest in the resulting dataset we decided to continuosly monitor the pingosphere. So, we now do it “live” on updated blogs published by weblogs.com(delayed by an hour), and have made it publicly available at http://memeta.umbc.edu. The site lists blogging patterns for many other languages, and compares splogs with blogs. All of our work is part of a larger project memeta, towards analyzing the content and structure of the blogosphere.

The problem is bigger than many of us would think of. Many fellow bloggers believe the problem is not that difficult to solve, but certainly is beyond individual blogger capability.

I seriously urge weblog software developers and services to work together to produce open solution for the future of blogosphere. With this prolem solved, I believe that blogosphere would be a better place for all of us bloggers.

Source: eBiquity.