{"id":16353,"date":"2006-02-10T09:28:28","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T17:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/02\/10\/sping.html"},"modified":"2006-02-10T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T17:28:28","slug":"sping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/02\/10\/sping\/","title":{"rendered":"sping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>...the number of [...] fake pings--\"spings\"--has also increased...<\/p>\n<p>--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vnunet.com\/forbes\/news\/2150154\/blog-firm-working-google-cut\">Blog firm working with Google to cut 'spings'<\/a>, vnunet.com, 10 February 2006<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The wikipedia entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sping\">sping<\/a> says the word is short for \"ping spam,\" and notes that spings are sent from \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Splog\">splogs<\/a>,\" or spam blogs (which are blogs in which the content of the entries themself are spam; an explanation of what web spam is and why people do it is beyond the scope of this entry).<\/p>\n<p>I'm amused that the Wikipedia entry for \"splog\" describes the term as a neologism, apparently without noticing that \"blog\" itself is a neologism.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;the number of [&#8230;] fake pings&#8211;&#8220;spings&#8221;&#8211;has also increased&#8230; &#8211;Blog firm working with Google to cut &#8216;spings&#8217;, vnunet.com, 10 February 2006 The wikipedia entry on sping says the word is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}