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Sping is short for 'ping spam'. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (Ping Server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. Spings, or ping spam, are pings that are sent from [[ |
Sping is short for 'ping spam'. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (Ping Server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. Spings, or ping spam, are pings that are sent from [[splog]]s, or spam blogs. |
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Spings, like splogs are increasingly problematic for the blogosphere. Estimates from Dave Winer's [weblogs.com] and Matt Mullenweg's [ping-o-matic] service have put the sping rate -- the percentage of pings that are sent from splogs -- well above 50%. |
Spings, like splogs are increasingly problematic for the blogosphere. Estimates from Dave Winer's [weblogs.com] and Matt Mullenweg's [ping-o-matic] service have put the sping rate -- the percentage of pings that are sent from splogs -- well above 50%. |
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Revision as of 04:29, 29 September 2005
Sping is short for 'ping spam'. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (Ping Server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. Spings, or ping spam, are pings that are sent from splogs, or spam blogs.
Spings, like splogs are increasingly problematic for the blogosphere. Estimates from Dave Winer's [weblogs.com] and Matt Mullenweg's [ping-o-matic] service have put the sping rate -- the percentage of pings that are sent from splogs -- well above 50%.