A startling statistic in yesterday's state of the blogosphere report was that 9% of all new blogs are spam blogs (splogs for short). Technorati CEO David Sifry cited “an ecosystem approach” to solving this problem. It includes a who's who of search engines and blog publishing providers that will soon meet at the Web Spam Squashing Summit. This sounds eerily like the Hall of Justice from the Super Friends cartoons.
Notably absent, however, are the web-based RSS aggregators. I guess they haven't been in the Justice League long enough to earn a berth to the Hall of Splogs. Web-based blog aggregation giants like Bloglines, Newsgator, Rojo and others should definitely have a seat at the Hall of Splogs. Not only do they scan billions and billions of feeds, as Carl Sagan would say. They search them too. Why not tap these sites to empower their users to report splogs? It seems silly to leave them out of the ecosystem.
