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Tue, 14 Jun 2005
I'm number 30xx?!
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I was playing around with the new Technorati Beta, so it was inevitable that I would do a search to see the statistics on this blog. Imagine my surprise to be granted a rank around 3090 or so. That's very flattering, but it just seems nuts to me. This is a very geeky blog (I've had friends of mine who are geeks write and tell me they have no idea what I'm rambling about), and I'm sure that there must be way more than 3100 blogs out there that cover much more generally interesting topics. (I bet they are well written too).
Or is the blogosphere much smaller than I believe, and mostly an echo chamber for computer people?
I don't find that hugely surprising. I think there's a very definite long-tail / exponential curve in effect, where the vast majority of blogs are written for people's friends and family and hence don't have an enormous amount of incoming links. The blog written deliberately for strangers with shared interests are a much smaller piece of the pie, and within that segment I imagine there's still a huge bias towards technical stuff (although American politics blogs are probably almost as common). Shared-interest blogs attract links, which are what Technorati uses for rankings.
Posted by Simon Willison at Tue Jun 14 00:29:55 2005
Posted by Simon Willison at Tue Jun 14 00:29:55 2005
My guess is that PlanetPython gets you a lot of traffic. It certainly does for me.
Posted by Fuzzyman at Tue Jun 14 08:00:18 2005
Posted by Fuzzyman at Tue Jun 14 08:00:18 2005
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