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Topping off a totally lethargic weekend with a minor bitchmeme
April 20, 2008 |
Between Twitter being only half-functional this weekend and the Friday bitchmeme not even making it to Friday afternoon (and not because I didn’t try), this weekend was probably one of the slowest I can remember for a long while.
Now, this afternoon, the TechCrunch crew is trying to stir things up a bit by publishing a list of the Top 100 bloggers. Notice that it is about bloggers, not blogs - a vital ingredient for a good bitchmeme, at least in my view, is that it has to be personal!
But honestly, I don’t think that’s going to stir up too much interest. They will get a bunch of backlinks from it (there are, after all, about 100 bloggers who are guaranteed to blog about this). Mathew Ingram calls it trolling for links - and I agree. It’s a smart post to make on a Sunday afternoon - not much competition and it’s guaranteed to carry over into Monday.
If there is an angle to this story that could get people riled up, it is that the list is based on TechMeme headlines and that those are simply not representative of the blogosphere at large (TechMeme is elitist, an echo-chamber, why are there only three solo bloggers on the list blah, blah, blah - we have chewed over that enough by now).
Personally, I’m just tired of Top X lists by now and the discussion around them, but still: congrats to all of my friends who are on the list!
p.s. a metric I would be interested in: number of headlines per post - something tells me Louis Gray might be headlining that list.
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Alright, name dropper… I’m also interested to the methodology. Looks to me like I have at least 17 in the same time period, yet, didn’t make the cut (which was 13). Who knows?
Good idea on the # of headlines/post. I’ll see if I can do that. Louis: for some reason, my data doesn’t have you as an ‘author’ of posts from louisgray.com (sadly the author in my db is listed as ‘NULL’), so it’s not in my rough list. But I do see 19 TechMeme headlines from you since 01-01-2008.
TechCrunch has lost all creditability in my book . This started with all the rumors that fly off that site.
I agree about all the bloggers creating backlinks to this posting, but who is to say we will link (perhaps we will just write ) eh ?
In any event, as an author to a news room I offer advice , just be careful.
In this scam they might be looking for backlinks to get a higher PR from Google. Did you think of this ?
I do not recognize any site that can efficiently rank Tech Bloggers / Sites. It is better to write about them than to rank them.
QS9USER: I don’t think we’ve lost all cred. Yeah, we post rumors, but I can’t remember any that we just got completely wrong. Facebook Chat is a good example of one we nailed.
I agree that ranking bloggers in some way is silly, but that TechMeme, after many years of tech, is pretty damned good at calling the stories that everyone is interested in. So I do think that seeing how good authors are at getting stories onto TechMeme is a compelling story itself. It’s not efficient, I agree, but it’s interesting to check out.