Comments on: The state of the Scottish blogosphere http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Osama Saeed http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-163799 Osama Saeed Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:53:56 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/#comment-163799 The other strange thing about Technorati is that it generates different scores for the same blog. I'm looking at one site that links to me - Islamophobia Watch - and it is stated to have an authority of 127 and from the same post, but in a different entry, 78. The former is from its main URL, the other with the addition of a /islamophobia-watch Which begs the question - is it's true score diluted by having two separate entries? For some reason my Technorati reactions also include links from my own blog. Sometimes it lists the authority for that as 1. It also has different authorities based on osamasaeed.org, osamasaeed.org/osama and my host's url which is osama.typepad.com So my ranking above also depends on which one you looked at. My main URL actually has an authority of 88. So yep, a very inexact science, if a science at all! The other strange thing about Technorati is that it generates different scores for the same blog.

I’m looking at one site that links to me – Islamophobia Watch – and it is stated to have an authority of 127 and from the same post, but in a different entry, 78. The former is from its main URL, the other with the addition of a /islamophobia-watch

Which begs the question – is it’s true score diluted by having two separate entries?

For some reason my Technorati reactions also include links from my own blog. Sometimes it lists the authority for that as 1. It also has different authorities based on osamasaeed.org, osamasaeed.org/osama and my host’s url which is osama.typepad.com

So my ranking above also depends on which one you looked at. My main URL actually has an authority of 88.

So yep, a very inexact science, if a science at all!

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-158430 doctorvee Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:12:04 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/#comment-158430 Thanks for the comments everyone, and welcome if you're new to this blog! John, I guess this ties in with the debate about whether it's better for a blog to have a strong focus or to be more eclectic. I can never make my mind up on that. My own blog lacks focus, which I have sometimes felt ashamed of. But it's good to get your mind of politics, or indeed whatever your subject happens to be. Those blogs are more fun I reckon. Whatever, eclectic blogs definitely bring in the links. My politics posts get links from politics blogs, my F1 posts get links from F1 blogs and so on. So the Technorati rankings are definitely skewed towards people who are a jack of all trades, to the detriment of the masters who focus on their own speciality. Thanks for the comments everyone, and welcome if you’re new to this blog!

John, I guess this ties in with the debate about whether it’s better for a blog to have a strong focus or to be more eclectic. I can never make my mind up on that. My own blog lacks focus, which I have sometimes felt ashamed of. But it’s good to get your mind of politics, or indeed whatever your subject happens to be. Those blogs are more fun I reckon.

Whatever, eclectic blogs definitely bring in the links. My politics posts get links from politics blogs, my F1 posts get links from F1 blogs and so on. So the Technorati rankings are definitely skewed towards people who are a jack of all trades, to the detriment of the masters who focus on their own speciality.

]]> By: John Kirriemuir http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-158342 John Kirriemuir Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:39:36 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/#comment-158342 Story of my life; always just outside the top 20... My ranking is undeservedly high, as it's a blog with some very diverse / unrelated categories - Living in the Outer Hebrides, pictures of beaches, Digital Library conferences, Video Games, going to baseball matches in the USA. Really is several smaller themes rolled into one uber-blog. Other blogs below me in the rankings that stick to one subject rather than dart all over the place are more deserving. Story of my life; always just outside the top 20…

My ranking is undeservedly high, as it’s a blog with some very diverse / unrelated categories – Living in the Outer Hebrides, pictures of beaches, Digital Library conferences, Video Games, going to baseball matches in the USA. Really is several smaller themes rolled into one uber-blog. Other blogs below me in the rankings that stick to one subject rather than dart all over the place are more deserving.

]]> By: Scott http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-158227 Scott Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:47:54 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/#comment-158227 My own ranking is way too high. I happened to post early on the Usmanov case and received lots of links from people that almost certainly have never looked at any of my irregular posts on TV or scottish politics. I shouldn't be above Tartan Hero, Kevin Williamson, or the great Ian Hamilton blog for example (of those below my listing that I read regularly). pre-Usmanov my usual technorati authority was around 15 and I suspect my readership around 3 people (although being on livejournal readership stats are difficult to come by). Generally people don't link to my political postings. For info I'm a former Lib Dem activist (membership resigned for work-related reasons some time ago) and am a Lib Dem voter. Scott My own ranking is way too high. I happened to post early on the Usmanov case and received lots of links from people that almost certainly have never looked at any of my irregular posts on TV or scottish politics. I shouldn’t be above Tartan Hero, Kevin Williamson, or the great Ian Hamilton blog for example (of those below my listing that I read regularly). pre-Usmanov my usual technorati authority was around 15 and I suspect my readership around 3 people (although being on livejournal readership stats are difficult to come by). Generally people don’t link to my political postings.

For info I’m a former Lib Dem activist (membership resigned for work-related reasons some time ago) and am a Lib Dem voter.

Scott

]]> By: mark mcdonald http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-158071 mark mcdonald Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:33:28 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/#comment-158071 I see I am only just above the Aberdeen BNP blog, that's a relief... I see I am only just above the Aberdeen BNP blog, that’s a relief…

]]> By: michael greenwell http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-158019 michael greenwell Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:46:42 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/#comment-158019 It is strange. My old blog got far far less hits than my new one but is still ranked much higher than the new one on a lot of these things. And thanks because I didn't know a lot of the above blogs so I have some serious surfing to do. It is strange. My old blog got far far less hits than my new one but is still ranked much higher than the new one on a lot of these things.

And thanks because I didn’t know a lot of the above blogs so I have some serious surfing to do.

]]> By: Richard Leyton http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-158007 Richard Leyton Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:55:39 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/#comment-158007 Interesting stuff. Me? I just got to wondering when the meta-lists, the list-of-lists, will start appearing. Of course, if you want to get paradoxical, you could start a list of blogs that aren't yet featured in a blog-list (Yay for Graeme!?). But do you then put them in the list-of-lists? And then... OK, maybe not. Interesting stuff.

Me? I just got to wondering when the meta-lists, the list-of-lists, will start appearing. Of course, if you want to get paradoxical, you could start a list of blogs that aren’t yet featured in a blog-list (Yay for Graeme!?). But do you then put them in the list-of-lists? And then…

OK, maybe not.

]]> By: Graeme http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-157998 Graeme Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:41:08 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/10/16/the-state-of-the-scottish-blogosphere/#comment-157998 It does seem that there's no empirical or flawless method of rating blogs, at least not yet, because of the various ways people access them and why they do. So it's comparing apples with oranges. As has been said, no-one blogs for popularity's sake alone, even if you can finesse content in hindsight, so I don't know what this sudden fascination is. And I'm not bitter for not appearing in any of these lists. Oh no. It does seem that there’s no empirical or flawless method of rating blogs, at least not yet, because of the various ways people access them and why they do. So it’s comparing apples with oranges. As has been said, no-one blogs for popularity’s sake alone, even if you can finesse content in hindsight, so I don’t know what this sudden fascination is.

And I’m not bitter for not appearing in any of these lists. Oh no.

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