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especially when they are deemed 'most important'. is this just one huge social game? who can hype the most, stir up the most shit, repost the most, comment the most etc... so we get link loved the most and swim in google juice? so that the cult of the geek can live on. funny how this mirrors religions, governments, corporate structure and i'd even go so far to include sports. except the new Internets iz suppozedly different and leveled and... whatever.
sorry for the rant. just getting tired of the "Most Important" references.... but not to point fingers here especially because i *think* the post you reference was tongue in cheek.
PS- please rank my comment +1. thx peeps.
You are bloggers, that should be good enough...this inflation of their importance outside their own network of colleagues is more than a little ridiculous. Ask any random person on the street who Blogger X and no one will know who you are talking about (unless you're Perez Hllton!) And that lack of renown shouldn't matter. Watching your stats of followers and fans takes energy and time away from coming up with decent blog entries and I've seen some bloggers start relying on other people for information instead of coming up with their own ideas. Once you start looking at yourself as a public figure, you start second-guessing yourself, too.
Lesson? Congratulations on your success but keep some humility and don't be blinded by the swag and fawning praise...don't believe the bad and good things people say about you, it'll only mess up your head.
{Steps off soapbox and splashes face with cold water} Okay, now I've purged that peeve from my system...until I see "rockstar" the next time.
The measuring stick for popularity on Twitter is Twitterholic which is based on number of followers. FriendFeed has consciously decided not to expose this number for users of its service. So it's fun to see how Google's algorithm levels the playing field somewhat to provide these stats. Until someone comes up with something better, this is all we got.
http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2008/06/12/w...
"So it's fun to see how Google's algorithm levels the playing field somewhat to provide these stats."
that's what i mean, their should not even be a playing field to level.
sorry, just mess'n with ya.
:)
http://intelligentesleben.blogspot.com/2008/06/...
But in the discussion on friendfeed ...
http://friendfeed.com/e/d10fa425-a662-63ac-f59c...
... some people made the point that this just searches for who is using the term "friendfeed" most (which seems the main reason why Scoble and Gray made the top besides they're heavy users)! Is there any reason you left this term in? Wouldn't it be better to do the search just for the domain friendfeed.com without any specific term at all?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq...
Yes, I agree that there are other methods that can be used to create ranking lists. I was just having fun with this. Your method seems better & Mitchell Tsai has also written about using Google page counts here. I'm glad that this post has created some dialog on using other ranking methods and I look forward to watching what others create.
i dont think that it's as simple as that, with a test i ran. i'll give it more time though.
@elliottng