Comments on: Giving Bloggers New Stats to Be Neurotic About

By: turtlesong

turtlesong — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:18:33 +0000

are there blogs other than whatever, wwdn: in exile, and uncertain principles? interesting. very interesting.

*wanders off to find some twizzlers*

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:28:00 +0000

This is going to sound snarky, but it’s a genuine question: does anyone actually use Technorati? I mean, for things other than “obsessively checking to see whose is bigger”?

(I say this as someone who uses Technorati solely for obsessively checking to see whose is bigger.)

By: King Rat

King Rat — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:49:15 +0000

And all those stats mean jack-all to those of us who aren’t in the top X of any category. Technorati basically made itself useless to anyone who isn’t already a hot property. Of course, they were already falling into irrelevancy for the last couple of years.

By: dan sinclair

dan sinclair — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:08:08 +0000

In a shameless fit of self promotion. I work at a company called PostRank that does ranking and filtering of blogs. We've recently launched an Analytics service to allow bloggers to see where their engagement is happening (eg, through delicious, digg, twitter, etc). The postrank.com (consumer) website allows you to add your blog to topics and see the relative ranking against other blogs in the same category (or, you can create your own topics to track your blog against others). So, as I said, I'm biased in that I work at PostRank, but if you want some analytics for your blog, we've got a bunch of 'em for ya.

By: Edward Cheever

Edward Cheever — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:23:41 +0000

I watch my WordPress Blog views too much as it is.

I don’t need another program to tell me how few people stop by.

By: stoolpigeon

stoolpigeon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:42:54 +0000

And people pay to play WoW, when there are so many free games out there.

By: Joe Rybicki

Joe Rybicki — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:16:56 +0000

Oh goodie, and they appear to have lost all my claimed blogs in the process. The ones I spent three hours just this past weekend setting up.

By: scottE

scottE — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:29:48 +0000

Amazing. I had no idea other blogs existed outside of my reading sphere. This includes everything ranked above the Whatever.

On the other hand, many of them seem kind of boring.

By: Pam Adams

Pam Adams — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:21:30 +0000

Interesting that the number 1 book blog argues for the joy of browsing, and the fear that the electronic age will steal this from us. I would argue that e-browsing is a joy of its own as experienced through the Big Idea.

By: Nobody

Nobody — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:58:23 +0000

BACON! um, i mean… yeah.