In response to Mary Hodder’s concern about “rankism”… I wonder whether rank is the wrong presentation, and clouds are right.
A cloud presentation would primarily show the communities that a blogger is in. It may show secondarily the influence strength within that community, but that should be secondary in the presentation.
A cloud presentation might enable navigation along topic axis. For my blog, you’d be able to traverse to social software and austin clouds.
Influence would be calculated within the cloud. So, Jon Lebkowsky would have separately-calculated influence level within Austin and environmental blog communities.
Perhaps the presentation would allow the browser to traverse communities. One could find “blogher”, and traverse to the “sepia mutiny” south asia community.
Time would be an interesting factor. Perhaps one could view the cloud by week, month, or year. See how participation ebbs and flows over time. A longer time frame would be interesting — I wonder whether other bloggers are “bursty” in their topics of interest. A long time frame would catch people who come and go.
In sum, a cloud presentation would avoid the worst of rankism, because it would focus on the community more than the individual, and allow a browser to traverse communities.
Valuing Social Gestures
Mary Hodder offers an open source algorithm for scoring blogs beyond authority: We wanted to see these measures used in an algorithm that balanced the weight of each social gesture, put against large data sets to see whether the…
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…with Linkrank, the Technorati 100, A listers, and creating a dialog to move beyond it. Tish G at Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams talks about trading links to create a vibrant community: I love the community of voices…
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…with Linkrank, the Technorati 100, A listers, and creating a dialog to move beyond it. Tish G at Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams talks about trading links to create a vibrant community: I love the community of voices…
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…with Linkrank, the Technorati 100, A listers, and creating a dialog to move beyond it. Tish G at Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams talks about trading links to create a vibrant community: I love the community of voices…
the value of conversation
Mary Hodder (napsterization) proposes an alternate ranking system for blogs. The current ranking systems depend largely on inbound links and has the odd effect of making the popular bloggers even more popular, bringing the blogosphere ever closer to th…
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…with Linkrank, the Technorati 100, A listers, and creating a dialog to move beyond it. Tish G at Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams talks about trading links to create a vibrant community: I love the community of voices…
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a community based algorithm and the attendant issues… Michael Frasse on Information authority and ranking: Hodder says, rightly, that the metric for assessing weight in the blogosphere should be open, not closed. “Bloggers should have input about t…
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a community based algorithm and the attendant issues… Michael Frasse on Information authority and ranking: Hodder says, rightly, that the metric for assessing weight in the blogosphere should be open, not closed. “Bloggers should have input about t…
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a community based algorithm and the attendant issues… Michael Frasse on Information authority and ranking: Hodder says, rightly, that the metric for assessing weight in the blogosphere should be open, not closed. “Bloggers should have input about t…