blogresearch TopList

A toplist of sites tagged with 'blogresearch'. The final score is the number of users that have stored the site in del.icio.us (note that only one of them needs to have used the 'blogresearch' tag) multiplied by the number of blogs with links to the site as counted by Technorati.

There are a few Iraq-only sites which you can ignore if you're only interested in sites about blog research rather than tagged by someone who was doing blog research. There are also a few sites that scored highly on del.icio.us but received no score from Technorati, so are near the bottom of the list.

Comments

You know, I've never found these kind of rankings all that useful because they're all biased due to the overwhelming popularity of the most popular 20 or so blogs. Try using Technorati data to make a toplist of *anything* that doesn't have boingboing, kottke, instapundit or another of the most popular blogs near the top.

A site tagged only 5 times * 100000 links will beat out a site tagged by 1000 users which "only" has 100 incoming links.

How would the toplist look with rank = users * log(Technorati Links)?

Posted by: Grady on January 20, 2005 7:10 PM

I'll try a log scale for the Technorati links and see how that looks.

You can also sort the table just by the del.icio.us results (click on the table header, doesn't work in Safari for some reason) and ignore the Technorati results completely. Though unless you only count the users that have actually used the tag, the del.icio.us results are skewed towards generally popular sites as well.

It's worth noting that the toplist for 'mp3blog' doesn't include any of the popular general blogs, so the aim of using the del.icio.us data to section out certain subject areas was definitely successful.

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