Comments on: Why doesn’t collaborative blog ranking exist?

By: First Golden Ranker

First Golden Ranker — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:39:54 +0000

oooops I didn’t give u the url: http://www.rankingfever.net

By: First Golden Ranker

First Golden Ranker — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:38:39 +0000

Rankingfever (“Rank whatever exists”) is probably your solution. But only in french yet. Ask them if you want to be the First US Ranker to start the US section….

By: dennyhalim

dennyhalim — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:37:17 +0000

Lucas,

what i heard about alexa is that it’s planted into all microsoft internet explorer related links.
so, it’s not just people who use alexa toolbar. but almost everyone using msie is counted into that ranks.

By: Aniela

Aniela — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:09:10 +0000

I haven’t heard of Blog-Buzz yet but I’ll check it out. I’ve been looking for a good digg alternative that’s not only tech related. Hopefully Blog-Buzz won’t disappoint.

By: Lucas McDonnell

Lucas McDonnell — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:31:02 +0000

CrispyBlogPosts is certainly a Digg-a-like (to use Steve's turn of phrase), but doesn't seem to have much traction so far. I'm sure there many more Digg imitators out there who have decided to be 'Digg for blogs'. I guess it will remain to be seen if one of these manages to gather more steam than it currently has. Steve -- the 'random sample' issue is a huge problem for Alexa. I think it would be interesting for someone to poll IE users with Alexa toolbars installed, and ask them if they know all the sites they visit are being sent to Alexa. I would be interested to know what percentage didn't really understand what the toolbar even did. Technorati did seem to be trying to do a bit of Digg thing with Technorati WTF, where users could vote for posts. I think the real secret to Digg's success however, lies in Digg's user community -- and developing a community that has a hardcore affinity to your site is not easy to do.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:55:36 +0000

The biggest problem I see with all survey data is the reliability of the ‘random’ sample. Alexa users are a pretty small percentage of web users, and certainly aren’t representative of the readers of most of the sites and blogs that I read (being IE users happy to have their every move tracked).
I suspect the killer tracker will appear from one of the many stats plugins or meta social networks (like mybloglog) or playthings (like stumbleupon) which manage to achieve a wide enough userbase across various demographics.
If they use this network well they will have interesting numbers to publish on actual usage. They then pop up a simple digg-a-like which floats opinion data on top of this ‘actual usage’ data.
I think if feedburner, technorati or sphere were going to do this well they’d have done it by now.

By: Collis

Collis — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:19:25 +0000

Theres also something called CrispyBlogPosts or something like that which is a bit like Digg but for blogs, but of course its not a proper ranking system for blogs.

Perhaps Feedburner is in the best position to really rank blogs since it has access to reader statistics, I dont know. Of course I suspect lots of people wouldnt want their subscriber numbers public…

By: Lucas McDonnell

Lucas McDonnell — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:12:22 +0000

Lyndon — I think Technorati (or someone using info from Technorati) could do this. They already track blogs and blog posts, so I think someone could figure out a way to then rank the blogs based on this (or possibly come up with a similar system to rank blogs — and to combat the quick-death effect of many blogs, possibly have a minimum number of posts or something like that before a blog could be considered).

Ping.sg — very interesting. This is very interesting push-pull kind of model for having information delivered to readers. Thanks for mentioning this!

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:36:18 +0000

Yes, bloggers do need to submit post by post – it’s just like Digg.

By: ClappingTrees

ClappingTrees — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:27:23 +0000

Thanks, Lucas. Your observations and suggestions are quite thought-provoking.

Thanks, InspirationBit, for the info on Blogg-Buzz. Do bloggers need to submit post by post? Or can we just ping?

In Singapore, there’s a relatively new metablog called Ping.sg. We bloggers simply ping it and when readers read a post, they are considered to have Pong’ed it. There’s no voting system though.