Submit a splog All the hoopla about “Splogs” has people taking notice. In a perfect world, I love the idea of a “spam blog blacklist” but can you imagine the headache of maintaining one of these lists? The poisoning that could happen, the existance of innocent blog posts that are being used as splogs and the inherent danger for a blogger to use such a blacklist are enormous.

Yahoo unveils blog search tool Is this an attempt to one up Google blog search or as Jeremy says, ( I can’t find the post right now) did Yahoo already have blog search in the works but was not timely enough to release it before Google? In any case, you judge the results. I personally think they still need a lot more data and more fine tuning and the results page make it look like Feedster (or does Feedster look like Yahoo?)

MT-Blacklist and Comment Spam Clearinghouse Closed Jay chooses to close down the clearinghouse to protest ubiquitous and unscrupulous programmers hitting the blacklist more than they should have. My personal view on blacklists aside, thanks for all your work Jay. Thanks to Threadwatch for the news.

Can Bloggers Strike It Rich? When it comes to the profit potential of blogs, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, calls himself a skeptic. Sceptic or clever businessman? I have nothing against Nick, but the more “professional bloggers” there are on the internet, the smaller the share becomes. Perhaps I’ve just experienced the Denton deflationary spin machine. 🙂