According to Slashdot, Google, MSN Search, MSN Spaces, Yahoo!, Six Apart, LiveJournal, Flickr, Blogger, and many others are trying to stop comment spam in blogs by all agreeing to use a special attribute in links.

I hope that BlogSphere adds the new attribute soon.

Take a look at these links for more information: http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/01/19/0516246.shtml?tid=111&tid=217 http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html http://www.movabletype.org/news/2005/01/movable_type_nofollow_p.shtml http://www.sixapart.com/log/2005/01/support_for_nof.shtml