Highlights from Dave Sifry latest State of the Blogosphere blog entry.
- Technorati currently tracks 27.2 Million weblogs. Randy: Less than 15% of the blogosphere.
- There has been an increase in the overall noise level in the blogosphere, most notably in the number of spam and fake pings that are sent - what I call "spings". These spam pings are fake or bogus notifications that a blog has been updated; in some cases, these spings can amount to a denial-of-service attack, and can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total pings Technorati receives.
- Beyond that, about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated, or are attempts to create link farms or click fraud.
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