Blog Comment Spam Represents 97% Of Comments

Of course, with anti-spam systems like Akismet, comment spam on blogs doesn’t really work. Yes, the occasional spam message makes it through, but the number of spam comments the system misses is pretty small.
That doesn’t stop the comment spammers trying though. I just did a quick calculation for this blog on the number [...]

My New Favourite Blog…

I have a new favourite blog - The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Truly hilarious!

More On The Value Of Blogs - A Million Page Views A Day = A Million Dollars A Year

A few days ago, I wrote about the popularity of almost all blogs, or rather the lack of popularity. In that post, I gave some rough ways that a blog might be valued from an investment perspective - you certainly need more than a million visitors a week to be valued [...]

How Popular Are Blogs, Really?

There’s a huge amount of hype surrounding blogging. I can’t help feeling, though, that it’s much more niche than many people would have you believe. In other words, the numbers of readers, listeners and viewers of text, audio and video blogs are much, much lower than all the hype would suggest. [...]