Spam and splogs (spam blogs) continue to be a problem in the blogosphere, and there was a marked increase in splogs that coincided with the holiday season last year. Technorati has been tracking between 3,000 - 7,000 new splogs created each day, but there
Chris Anderson's blog about the shift away from mass marketing toward niche marketing, and the implications of this (and other effects of the IT revolution that make Long Tail possible) for the future of society.