Comments on: Smelling Rank

By: b.cognosco

b.cognosco — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:45:56 +0000

“I’ll take a pound of relevance, to go please.”

Doug Kay, in the August 28 IT Conversations newsletter, says: quote The Top Podcast? Feedster just released their Top 500 most interesting and important blogs and IT Conversations is rated #26 – higher than any other podcast. Cool! But as Dave Slusher …

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:50:51 +0000

Isn;t this where profiling come in to play ?

If enough information is tracked about me, then a system could tell me what the most relevent and valuable content (to me) would be.

Of course someone might poison the information and the system would wrongly think I have intrests I don;t have.

Profiles do have some merit, but it need to be dynamic, and based on content I choose, not of a bunch of checkboxes.

How about if I gave an rss reader my chosen feeds, podcasts list, del.icio.us feed, and flickr feed and maybe a month of emails, would I get a good top 500 feed list?

Of course, what is not mentioned, and should be, is that I (and presumably others) download many podcasts, but only listen to a portion of them.

I think ITConversations has a good system, where I rate podcasts when I remove them from my queue.
So far, the star system works ok for me with ITC, but I had to find ITC first.

By: Darren Griffith

Darren Griffith — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:06:51 +0000

Hey, it turns out even Calvin is into lists. What is this world coming to? http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/08/16/

By: The Work Better Weblog

The Work Better Weblog — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:40:33 +0000

The Mass Market Mentality vs Individual Customer

Doug Kaye states Mark Ramsey doesn’t get podcasting.
Mark Ramsey replies that Doug doesn’t get broadcasting.
Yes, podcasting is a great opportunity for broadcasters to experiment and create a farm team. Yes, podcasting is a no-brainer for…

By: Tilted Edge

Tilted Edge — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:24:25 +0000

Right on Dave.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:02:50 +0000

I saw that… I got an e-mail to a list or something I’m on that said “Your Site Is # 6″ and I was like, how is MY site #6? I have like 4 readers, so yeah, I’m nowhere near the top 500… Of course if anyone wants to come over and read it, um, I’d appreciate it

-A

By: that.man

that.man — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:02:07 +0000

Speaking from the perspective of a fairly new blogger. I’ve been reading blogs for about a year now, I’ve seen different topics and different styles.

I started blogging about a month ago, and if I didn’t have other blogs to see as a reference, I’d have been lost and given up long ago.

What I also noticed is, like Dave says, there are so many! Why more? I don’t even know about half of them, and I think neither does anyone!

Isn’t this all about expression? Isn’t this all about release? Sure, if someone reads my posts once in a while, I’m fine. I didn’t start blogging to have a devoted readership, I started because I wanted to express myself.

Right now, the blogosphere is more about ratings than about expression. Yeah, we’d all like some more readers, but its not a competition.

PS: Dave, nice to see you sticking it to the man again! Right on!

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:39:22 +0000

I’d like to change your mind. You are right insofar as the blogosphere doesn’t need the list. However, readers who are new to the blogosphere are more comfortable starting from this sort of base. Hopefully, they’ll find gateways to the smaller, passionate communities that Jarvis talks about and actively participate.

By: James

James — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:38:22 +0000

What does the badge on my site tell you?

That I’m TWAC most likely.

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:32:50 +0000

Why? It is always telling you about that person.

You may be disappointed by that, but at least it is telling you something.