Prelimenary results from Blogroll Ranking

7 thoughts on “Prelimenary results from Blogroll Ranking”

1. There must be something wrong with your methodology! I’ve never had Rain City Guide put in the same list as so many great bloggers! 🙂 Nonetheless, I’m flattered and would definitely be interested to know a bit more about what went into your PeopleRank algorithm.

   Do you expect the results to change substantially when you add more blogs?

2. Blogroll is an irrelevant metric ’cause:
   1. They are biased
   2. Updated infrequently or never
   3. Blogs by themselves don’t matter the most. It is the individual post that drives a user to the site.

   Yours is just another attempt to promote Technorati top 100. People who have the ability to look and search beyond these blogs will succeed. Others are mere spectators.

3. Awesome! This is one of those things that makes total sense after the fact — “duh” — but no one had done it yet! I look forward to seeing how the list changes as the exploration evolves…

4. 1. Bias is exactly what you want from a metric like this: you want what the individual idiosyncrasies of each person to shine through.

   2. Most blogrolls seem to be connected to someone’s feed reader. Mine is connected Bloglines, many others use Newgator or such. In these cases, it correctly shows which blogs a blogger is regularly reading. I’d argue that’s something very important. E.g. there are many blogs I read but don’t link to in my posts. By Technorati’s standards I contribute nothing to their rank.

   3. Your assuming that “driving a user to the site” is what matters. What I’m trying to get at is not “who gets the most traffic” but rather “who are the key influencers.” E.g. If a blog has only 3 regular readers, but those readers each write blogs with audiences of millions, then that first blog is certainly important.

   Not sure what you mean about trying to promote Technorati. One of the main motivators for this experiment was dissatisfaction with their narrow definition of authority.

   I agree that the key is to look beyond these top blogs. This is a first step into a new way of ranking blogs, and one which is very conducive to identifying experts within given domains. That’s when things will really get interesting!

5. Like I said, it’s beta. 🙂

   Looks like you showed up on the blogrolls of several well connected bloggers in my limited sample.

   Savor your high ranking while you can!

6. As one of the representative mom-bloggers from your dataset, I find my appearance on this list baffling, yet enthralling. Now, to figure out how to wield this newly discovered importance.

   Heh.

7. Could you please explain me the meaning of ‘APPALSHOP’

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