It has been called “son of spam”, the next big thing to hate, the problem with Web 2.0. The much-hyped world of weblogs is starting to get worried about its very own spam problem – called, predictably enough, splogging.

A blog is a website or web page that displays journal-like entries and can contain links to other pages, images, music or videos. Hosted on websites such as MySpace, they offer a way for users to keep in touch with each other and share and watch music and videos.