Of Splogs and Content
Much noise has been made these last few days about splogs. A splog being a blog which is artificially generated by aggregating rss feeds and then putting them up in seratim. It is the dark side of Web 2.0 - the light side being memeorandum and the broken side being The Canadian Bullet.
Apparently the distinguishing characteristic of a splog is that it is designed to gather Adsense dollars (as if) and not to actually perform any useful function. OK. Those do exist and someone has figured out a way of auto generating them and putting them up on blogspot - a bad thing.
A good thing is Peter Grossmann’s Bird Flu Monitor. Yes, it is automated. Yes it does take content from a variety of sources. No it does not have Adsense in a big way - yet; but there is no reason why it shouldn’t as the site makes a real contribution by bringing together various aspects of the discussion about H5N1.
I don’t have time to read every blog entry on bird flu if I have to go and find them myself. But I do have time to drop by The Bird Flu Monitor every couple of days and see what I missed.
Written by jay on October 27th, 2005 with 2 comments.
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