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Re: Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

Weerietwelry — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:42:56 -0000

Amber said. Jenny obeyed and added another finger, pinching her sister's cunt.

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jaemo — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:06:25 -0000

LOL. Blogs are a medium. Meaning they are neither rare nor well done. I don't blame sites for not linking to blogs - if I'm Joe Reader, I'm there to absorb good quality content, not the verbal diarreah that pervades almost ever corner of the "blogsphere".

lol....blogsphere.

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TAE — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:22:40 -0000

I've been thinking about linking in blogs a little bit lately (namely putting links on my own blog) as well and am starting to wonder if, at present, I've been slacking in this department purely due to a LACK OF TIME on my part . . .

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Hank — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:15:01 -0000

You got paid to shoot the video for Intel did you not?

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Robert Scoble — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:00:09 -0000

matto: I won that award on Saturday. So, I guess I'm winning it two weeks in a row! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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matto — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:37:31 -0000

Wow. You win the Biggest Douche of the Week award, and it's still Monday.

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shel israel — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:31:06 -0000

Robert,

Come in off the ledge on this one. Let these comments trickle off on this one. Only thse who risk going too far will know how far one can go. You blew this one. You apologized. Get on to a new subject.

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Thom Singer — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:29:48 -0000

Rock and Roll...the back an forth, he said - he said, nature of this post is the most entertaining thing I have seen on a blog in a long time. By the time I reached comment #75 I no longer understood the issue at hand, nor do I even care. I just think it is cool that A-List bloggers can have such a nasty pulbic exchange (aka pissing match). If this was Hollywood they would drag Shannon Daugherty out to throw a drink in someone's face.

I think you will set a record for number of comments in a week.

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Peter — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:48:29 -0000

We have a blog that is in the same space as a major Weblogs, Inc., blog. We often used to break stories and do not get linked to. The way we have handled it is:

(1) Send friendly e-mail announcements of major stories to go up in the next hour or so directly to one of the Weblogs, Inc., bloggers. This functions as a sort of "we're watching you" notice, without being obnoxious or burning our bridges. If that blogger ever screws us, we switch our announcements to another one.

(2) Make sure we are the source to go to -- our coverage needs to have some exclusive aspect to it, or we really can't blame anyone for not linking to us. This usually involves turning off the computer and getting on the telephone, something bloggers seem to have forgotten how to do.

Still, their tiny "Link" at the bottom doesn't bring in a lot of traffic, and they don't seem to like linking from inside the story, unless it's to AOL.

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Corey Clayton — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:08:34 -0000

I think all news sites on the net should be featuring trackbacks by now, telling who's linking to who. Isn't that what Web 2.0 is all about? And if I re-report a story, I ALWAYS put the series of people who reported it first (my sources).

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TDavid — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:26:05 -0000

Scoble stirring the pot, eh?

You are kind of wrong on the New York Times not linking to blogs unless you mean inline comments (?), yes/no?

They linked to one of my posts recently from their business section. Admittedly this linking is rare, but they do link to blogs.

And my contact with the writer of the piece told me that's he's been working on them to make the links inline instead of in the sidebar for the last year. Progress with MSM takes time.

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Guy Pelletier — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:18:32 -0000

Yuvi,
I agree with Robert, the analysis that you did on Scoble's blog covers all the primaries. If you would use that as a standard for blog analysis, you would be able to do comparison across sites.

I would still like to see something on the comments to his posts

Guy

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met — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:47:34 -0000

Engadget had deleted my comment which referred to the same article appearing in Gizmodo. The comment was deleted. I submitted another comment asking why it was deleted. This comment got deleted too.
I understand that it was money for them and they were running a business and all that. I just lost interest after that.
I don't think I've commented there ever since. This was like a year and half ago.
:)

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Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:30:08 -0000

@Scoble: Anyway, it is going to be the same engine, only slightly modified and enhanced. And, thank you once again:D

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Robert Scoble — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:58:14 -0000

I'd love to see the same analysis you did of my blog. That rocked.

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Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:56:40 -0000

@Scoble: Thanks! It's in the cards, and I hope to complete them before I lose the sexiness of being 15(which isn't long, btw), and I'll be working on it once I finish wikipedia. Any thoughts on specifics? I am pretty stuck, thinking of how to do the comparison...

And, the vid rocks!

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Robert Scoble — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:50:26 -0000

Yuvi: I'd love for you to do your analysis of Engadget and Gizmodo's linking!

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Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:14:34 -0000

Hope that helps.

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Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:12:28 -0000

I would have drawn some pretty graphs, but that would mean I'd have to make it a post rather than a comment. So, no graphs now. Sorry about that...

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Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:11:33 -0000

Here are the numbers for the linkblog, the feeds you've posted from:
Engadget: 160
EngadgetHD: 50
Gizmodo: 65
Digg:216
SlashDot:25

And, if I were to consider only those from Jan,
Engadget: 80
EngadgetHD: 16
Gizmodo:39
Digg: 68
Slashdot:14

And, If I were to consider the links in the posts themselves,
Engadget: 478
EngadgetHD: 64
Gizmodo: 67
Digg: 77
Slashdot: 50

For January?
Engadget: 265
EngadgetHD: 17
Gizmodo: 50
Digg: 19
Slashdot: 21

My Conclusion?
1. You prefer engadget to gizmodo
2. Almost half the links to engadget are during the CES Run, during Jan.

So, yes, you've definitely linked a lot to engadget, and gizmodo.

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Robert Scoble — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:59:04 -0000

Yuvi: what about on my link blog? I linked to Engadget more than that in just CES week there.

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Yuvi Panda — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:43:34 -0000

Just for your reference:

Number of times you've linked to:
Engadget :34
Gizmodo: 14
Slashdot: 10
Digg: 26
TechMeme:104

This is as of today. And, the Snap preview, in addition to being annoying and useless, broke my scrapper:D

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Michael Markman (Mickeleh) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:46:29 -0000

P.S. I just made that up. I wanted the thrill of going overboard and issuing a correction and retraction. I'm glad you comments are now on both sites with links to your fabulous fab video.

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Michael Markman (Mickeleh) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:39:32 -0000

Robert,

I would never expect to see Engadget or Gizmodo linking to a backstage tour of a semi-conductor fab, any more than I'd expect them to link to a tour of San Quentin or Abu Ghraib.

Sure, most of the stuff they write about is built over silicon, but they write about finished goods, not ingredients. I read both of them to tell me about cool, um, well, gadgets and gizmos. Either to learn about stuff I don't know, or to get their takes on stuff that I know very well.

I get that you have a business to plug. And I get that you'll use whatever juice you have to plug it. Go for it.

But IMHO, if Ryan and Brian start sending you links just cause you're you and just cause your videos are great and exclusive, they will begin to lose the sharp editorial focus that makes me fans of what they do.

Your strength is wide focus. That means it makes sense for you to link to pretty much anything. (Heck, you've even linked to me, thank you.) Blogs that are built on narrow focus shouldn't link to stuff just cause it's good or interesting or important to people they know. They should link to stuff that supports their editorial vision.

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Dario Salvelli — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:34:37 -0000

Not only Engadged or Gizmodo but also NYTimes and other magazine does NOT link blogs. Especially in the Italian scenario,Repubblica.it,Corriere.it,don't link blogs or other website in article: they have almost a directive internal to the editing.