CNN mentions how a Netcraft, a tube monitoring company of some kind, says that of approximately 3pm EST yesterday (kidding of course), the Internet reached its 100 millionth domain.  But out of that 100 million strong goodness, it seems that less than half are “active”.

“Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million,” he said 

While I agree that automated software (i.e. blogging tools, as Vox is hoping) make it far easier for anyone to register and then put up content, is anyone else wondering the corollary?
Sure, 50 million might be active, but what percentage of all that tube infused conversation is actually “real”?

Put more bluntly, how many of them (and as a percentage of the total) are actually splogs and spam related?  A recent Wired article interviewing Anil Dash (another Vox mention!) mentioned that the splogsphere is growing faster than the blogosphere, and up tp 56% percent of blogs are probably spam (splogs).

Because just as blogging tools make it easy for people to publish stuff, be it pictures or diaries of their cat (perhaps, by their cats) — the technology also exists to make it super easy to steal content, then re-publish garbage. 

So if anyone happens to know how many tubes are actually spammy filled garbage — let me know.  And maybe we can publish a press release of our own.