Technorati is hosting the Second Web Spam Summit at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California next week. (The announcement doesn’t specify the day the event will be occuring.)
They plan on discussing “comment spam, link spam, TrackBack spam, tag spam, and fake weblogs”. I guess “fake weblogs” is where splogs fit it. I’m not sure I like the term “fake weblog”, it somehow doesn’t convey the whole idea for me. Fake weblog sound more like a weblog written by a fictional character.
I hope they make some progress at this summit this summit. The list of attendees so far is: Ask Jeeves, Feedster, Google, Microsoft, Six Apart, Tucows, WordPress, and Yahoo! It sounds like they have enough of the right people there to do some damage. I would like to see IceRocket, Bloglines and Microsoft (MSN) there as well.
Found via: Somewhat Frank
on October 4th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
[...] The Second Web Spam Summit was hosted by Technorati and held ad the Googleplex a couple of weeks ago. Since then, we have not heard anything from any of the participants about it. What happened there? Was there nothing worth talking about or was everyone sworn to secrecy? [...]