This post is a good piece of primary research from the University of Maryland’s Centre for Ubiquitous Computing. About 3/4 of the pings popping around the blogosphere are actually Spings, sent by Splogs; spam pings sent by spam blogs.
Welcome to the Splogosphere: 75% of new pings are spings
So rather than the spam blogs being a parasitic part of the blogosphere, blogs are now a symbiotic part of the splogosphere.
Spings and Splogs
by Headshift
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