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A need for a new blog ranking system

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Steven Hodson

We might not want to admit in public but bloggers; especially those doing it as a career, liked having a ranking system that we use to get with Technorati. I say use to because whether they might not want to admit it or not Technorati isn’t really relevant anymore. Still though we flash that Technorati chicklet in our sidebars like it does mean something.

The thing is that between the service being severely gamed into uselessness the whole new media arena, of which blogs are only a part of now, has changed dramatically. Links, the very commodity by which we figured out our worth within the blogosphere have changed. They have grown beyond the blogs and into metric powerhouses on other new media services.

This is why we read blogs, and people like Scoble

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Steven Hodson

3 Comments

Like Alexander van Elsas I tend to call bullshit on much of what amounts to nothing more than hype when it comes to this thing called the real-time web (RTW). Yes it has its place but in level of consumer importance the bullet points that the proponents of RTW hoist upon us really doesn’t count. As much as we might like to think that the next great thing to come is the RTW I see it only as one of many ways we use the Web.

Steve Rubel might be enamored with his new ‘lifestreaming’ project having us believe that this is the next cool thing, but really as much as he might like to suggest that blogging is now old and tired I think he is totally wrong. If anything with the rush of popularity that services like Friendfeed and Twitter are experiencing I think that blogs could end up being even better than before.