TinkerToys

Ever play with TinkerToys when you were young? That was a favourite toy of mine - and I never got any larger set than maybe 1/2 what's in the picture in the linked WikiPedia article. Whenever I built something, I always ran out of parts before I was done. That's a problem with physical things - you always run out before you are done.

How about with blogs?

Let's start by looking at http://orowmsagn.blogspot.com.

Note the blog name, in the URL.
orowmsagn
orowmsagn <== 6 to 12 random alphabetic characters.

Go Next Blogging, and you'll see a lot of blogs like this one.



Orowmsagn, or "orow" as I will abbreviate, contains links to 500 other splogs in the TinkerToys splog farm. We will look at 2 of those links.

Look first at http://acmmfmrcw.blogspot.com.

Acmm contains a very little bit of text (look at it), and no links. It's close to being a stub blog. In data structure terms, we call acmm a "leaf" splog. It's the edge of the tree structure. When acmm gets actual content, it will be termed a "money" splog.



Next look at http://krdrffpgv.blogspot.com. Krdrffpgv, or "krdr" as I will abbreviate, contains links to 500 other splogs in the farm. We will look at 2 of those links.

Krdr contains lots of text, and lots of links (500 links to be exact). We call krdr a "branch" or "trunk" splog.

As additional splogs are added to the farm, they are added as leaves, and linked through an existing leaf splog. The latter leaf splog, now linking to other leaf splogs, has turned into a branch splog. This is how the splog farm grows.



One of the links in krdr is to http://ieqjiravs.blogspot.com, and a second to http://iiebbmogoii.blogspot.com. Each of those splogs contains 500 links, to other splogs.

Ieqj contains a link to http://bzuucozih.blogspot.com (and 499 more).

There are other peers to Acmm, Bzuu, Ieqj, Iieb, Krdr, and Orow, 499 each to be specific. Many such peers, in turn, contain 500 more links. Very few branch nodes probed, to date, contain only links to leaf nodes, most contain 2 - 4 (minimum) links to additional branch nodes. Last week, the numbers were higher.

Are you getting a picture of the numbers, in your mind? I hope so. I, personally, am getting a headache.

Last week, Tinkertoys leaf splogs contained a redirect to a search for "free sex" online, which appears be be dead now. Sometime on Saturday, October 13, all splogs were reformatted, and are now as you see above.

Current speculation is that the owner is seeking a new content provider (more money content). When he gets it, you'll soon see lots of interesting splogs in BlogSpot, and lots more complaints, in Google Blogger Help, about porn and spam blogs.

Do you remember "Oedemera.Com" being discussed in Google Blogger Help, just last week? There are links to that, in the TinkerToys splogs.

Does the splog farm name "TinkerToys" make sense now?

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