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Mobs: Bloghaus frets (auf Deutsch)

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Mobs
: Bloghaus frets (auf Deutsch) that Daypop, Blogdex, and Popdex are bad for — dangerous for — blogging because that which rises in the ratings becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of hype: User A likes it, thus B likes it, thus Z likes it. In others words: Is there a tyranny in the mob?

No.

Quite to the contrary, the mob has taste and judges the best and the best rises; popular opinion is not a bad thing. And, besides, the greatest asset of those indices is that they change overnight with the mob’s opinions and whims. If the mob does make a mistake, it’s gone with sunset. That’s what makes the internet the internet: It’s all about right now, not about history, but now.

2 responses to “Mobs: Bloghaus frets (auf Deutsch)”

  1. John Dowdell Avatar
    John Dowdell

    I’d find it very useful to be able to poll link frequency among selected groups of blogs. Daypop and Blogdex are useful, but they only tell me about those large aggregate samples they use. Checking link frequency among smaller and more specialized lists of bloggers could be a useful technique to quickly uncover personalized news.

  2. rannie Avatar
    rannie

    I have to agree with you to an extent. However it is possible to manipulate blogdex and popdex and daypop.
    It does require a few of your neighbouring blogs and it also requires timing your hyperlinks so that they fall within the same crawl.
    For example, if you look at the photobloggies on the top of the blogdex ratings today. Timing was definitely a factor that helped excel it’s rise.
    But maybe that’s not the best example cause it also supports your theory in which it was a good idea to begin with.
    In any case, my point being, if you have a group of friends with blogs, your clique could easily make a url rise on blogdex if you time it right.