Looks like there’s a lot of interested in Google Reader blog rank data now that it’s somewhat easy get your hands on. Gabe apparently went through the data and extracted the raw numbers. Techcrunch then ran with it. And of course Scoble jumped on this meme as well. What I find odd is that no [...]
Categories: google,memetrackers,tailrank,weblog
Scoble puts forth his definition of blogs which I find far too narrow…. If you’re a blog you apparently have to send pings:I would go as far as saying that a site that does not ping a pingserver, like weblogs.com, is NOT a blog (private Web sites don’t ping weblogs.com and are NOT discoverable by search engines).That’s not a very healthy requirement.
Categories: blog,blogger,blogs,memetrackers,search,syndicate,syndication,web2.0,weblog,Weblogs,wordpress
I’m working on a new feature for TailRank that allows the community to have some editorial control over the website…. You can harness user-contributed metadata manually (Digg, Reddit are examples) or you can use the link structure and the blogosphere as your index (Technorati or Google).
Categories: RSS,search,startups,tailrank,web2.0,weblog,wikipedia
With the rise or more attention engines or meme readers (I like ‘meme readers’ personally) such as Digg, Reddit, Memeorandum, and TailRank, I’m starting to notice two main ways that these systems obtain their certification data (rankings).Digg, and Reddit obtain their attention data via user contributed clicks.
On the drive to Tag Tuesday Tantek and I were talking about comment spam.Discussion started around nofollow rel links and how it was a shame that comments for everyone fall into the same nofollow category. If a weblog has comment moderation this behavior could be changed a bit.
This is a nasty new clever little evil trackback spam. They’re using the ‘source’ parameter to emulate links since on TypePad this allows HTML to be included.
Categories: spam,syndication,weblog