The New Google Reader Trends are a great addition...
My Top Ten (Look who's #3)
Techmeme 31 The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 24 Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger 23 TechCrunch 21 Sactown Royalty 19 GigaOM 17 louisgray.com: live 16 AMERICAblog 14 AppleInsider 14 Athletics Nation Stories 14
Stefan Constantinescu
· 2 years ago
Will someone please tell me how as a user how exactly is google trends is beneficial to me?!
When I saw the phrase "google trends" i thought WOO WOO GOOGLE IMPLEMENTED A PERSONALIZED MEME
Then I clicked and was horribly disappointed.
AndyBeard
· 2 years ago
One thing interesting, at least for me is that of all the commentary so far (other than mine) that I have read on the readership stats, noone has mentioned that Google Reader is not providing the stats publishers really need - the readership stats of their feeds.
Hmm Robert, why would you include Digg in your shared feed? I thought you only linked through to original articles there.
Your shared list does appear in my own Top20, but only because of the number of items posted. I read a "river of headlines" rather than a "river of news", thus whilst I have read a lot of posts in your shared list, it only accounts for 1% of all posts.
There doesn't seem to be a way to sort by % read
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Andy: I still find lots of interesting stuff on Digg, although the noise level is huge. Well, I read 26,000 RSS items so you don't have to. :-)
amorson
· 2 years ago
A more interesting analysis would be: wide impact original posts vs. posts triggered by external publications on the main blog.
Mark Woodman
· 2 years ago
Robert,
Could we convince you to improve your own signal-to-noise ratio by adding tags to your posts? The "Blogging" category doesn't differentiate much for tag-savvy users and analytic tools.
Chris Prillo does a great job of tagging (insert peer pressure here), and WordPress has some nice plugins to make it pretty painless to implement.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Yeah, I'll try to do that.
Search Engines WEB
· 2 years ago
Interesting that most of the lists are relatively new web 2.0 focused blogs.
One of the few oldies but goodies on the list was /.
Now, if this poll was taken just two years ago, it would probably have been much higher up on everyone's lists - and Geek Forums (like: Channel9 ) would have been well represented
Raimo van der Klein
· 2 years ago
Hi Robert,
Can't you share an OPML file? We can play with them like playlists.. ;-)
Tomi Itkonen
· 2 years ago
@8. I used to read Slashdot daily. Not anymore, this blog has totally replaced that classic.
Scobleizer (the blog) is somehow much more personal, more approachable. Slashdot seems to be in fire-and-forget mode, whereas Robert really cares about the issues he posts about.
Heck, I don't know. May be I just don't like the current layout of Slashdot.
Nathan Weinberg
· 2 years ago
Robert, since you are doing more to promote Google Reader than perhaps anyone else, maybe you can get them to fix this: I subscribe to the RSS feed for your link blog, and it doesn't use the RSS spec correctly, putting a link to the blog, not the article, where the title should be. As a result, when I want to blog something you've linkblogged, I have to click the link, which brings me to the front page of a blog, and then find the article in question.
With Digg, it is the worst, since the article is never on the front page. If Digg is the number one linked-to source in the linkblog, then that means that a ridiculous amount of the time, subscribers to the link blog have no hope of finding the main article. Talk to the Reader team, and get them to use RSS properly. God knows I've already tried on this.
Social netowrking is one of the best things you could do online,i really like the concept of virtual conncetivity all over the world.
Guy Pelletier
· 2 years ago
@13 Yuvi, What Google gives here is nice but what you bring to the table is a feast. You may have kicked the idea (Google Reader Trends) off.
Don't sweet this, you are still on a roll.
Guy
Guy Pelletier
· 2 years ago
That should be: Don't Sweat this
Guy
David Dalka
· 2 years ago
When someone invents something for quality metrics about links or readership instead of just quantity, I'll be amazed!
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
David: I only post things to my link blog that reach a certain bar of quality in my mind. Only 1 out of every 25 posts I read gets shared with you. So, look at this list as "best of the best."
Michael.NET
· 2 years ago
Here's my top five: Robert's shared items 53 MSDN Blogs 35 Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger 11 The Daily WTF 11 TechCrunch 9
Look whose number 1 AND number 3. And yes Robert there's alot of feeds I don't subscribe to because I know the best of them will come my way via you. Though there's a number I've subscribed to because you've featured them at some point or another.
Tris Hussey
· 2 years ago
Geez, I don't even make the top 40 ... guess I gotta write more interesting stuff! ;)
This is how OPML files cab be converted to a web page.
Tara
· 2 years ago
Hey, what about MY blog?! I'm so hurt...
thinkmobile
· 2 years ago
Hi YC,
Thanks!
no_tv
· 2 years ago
what about cartoonnetwork.com?
Ben Scoble
· 2 years ago
Well I am suprised that there are more comments to your "list" than your whacko political views. Dosen't anyone care anymore?
Michael.NET
· 2 years ago
Ben,
I do wince occasionally now at a few of the less tech items that have been on his link blog lately :)
LayZ
· 2 years ago
@22 Not only do you dictate HOW bloggers and companies should blog,but now you determine THE BEST of the blogosphere? Wow! How do you handle the responsibility. I had no idea you were the designated filter for the blogosphere. :-)
Juan
· 2 years ago
I'm looking forward to some cypher-punk (yes, cypher) dystopian future, blade runner kind of Internet where Scoble will be blogging for the Tyrell Corporation and socialism will be the dominant form of government. There will be cameras everywhere and the government will be blogging us. Google ads for offworld ho's and escapes to other planets.
Brian
· 2 years ago
Where's Prezza Technologies?? We make some damn good survey software (high end stuff, not like the monkey).
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
LayZ: where's your link blog? Seems you only like to throw bombs but you don't actually do anything of your own.
I bet your boss really loves you if you carry this attitude toward work. I wonder if you actually do ANYTHING? How do you survive at work?
Stephane Rodriguez
· 2 years ago
Why bother AOL massive user search query leak when you have a tool like this? It should be pretty obvious that any blogger does vanity read (for validation sometimes), and this pretty much gives his identity.
Of course, since anyone sharing his read items pretty much gives his identity anyway (as in Robert Scoble's link blog), this does not seem to matter much at first sight.
But, look the bigger picture, and see how all this information from Google Reader users could be aggregated by Google (or some other company) yet still retain the finest granularity level. This my friends competes with AOL massive user search leak.
It smells a bit ironical that so much people careful of their privacy would want to give it away like that...
pramit
· 2 years ago
I was planning something similar but I am finding it tough to get the programmers in New Delhi.
Also find it interesting that of your top 20, only two are single author blogs (Rubel and Web Strategy by Jereimiah). If I mislabeled another single author blog in your top 20, please correct.
Not a criticism, but an observation based on this data: seems like you prefer to link/share content from firehose publications -- those with multiple authors and many, many posts per day -- versus those from single authors.
This provides value to those who would rather get someone else's view of the best of these overactive pubs. I see this as a benefit that people like you, Robert, are helping to filter these signals.
Harshad Joshi
· 2 years ago
Does that mean these are the heavy duty blogs that link back at you and make you stay at #1 in wordpress list or any search engine with good traffic?
;-)
Brian T.
· 2 years ago
This is a grea service...
Would love to see it more dominant in the industry specially for the online networker.
The questions on how to deal with the search engines, how to increase our rankings and get to the top of search lists are serious and actual to everyone. It is good to read fully open sharing of personal insights on that theme. However, one thing worries me. It looks that the most are concern just with increasing the publicity but not the level of personal relationships. I am deeply convinced that the search engines are just tools to meet with each other, but not our primary goals. The design of the letter is always the secondary; the main thing is our relationships. I am interested not so much in increasing my mailing list (that is good of it self) but in building on friendship that was already made.
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My Top Ten (Look who's #3)
Techmeme 31
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 24
Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger 23
TechCrunch 21
Sactown Royalty 19
GigaOM 17
louisgray.com: live 16
AMERICAblog 14
AppleInsider 14
Athletics Nation Stories 14
When I saw the phrase "google trends" i thought WOO WOO GOOGLE IMPLEMENTED A PERSONALIZED MEME
Then I clicked and was horribly disappointed.
Hmm Robert, why would you include Digg in your shared feed? I thought you only linked through to original articles there.
Your shared list does appear in my own Top20, but only because of the number of items posted.
I read a "river of headlines" rather than a "river of news", thus whilst I have read a lot of posts in your shared list, it only accounts for 1% of all posts.
There doesn't seem to be a way to sort by % read
Could we convince you to improve your own signal-to-noise ratio by adding tags to your posts? The "Blogging" category doesn't differentiate much for tag-savvy users and analytic tools.
Chris Prillo does a great job of tagging (insert peer pressure here), and WordPress has some nice plugins to make it pretty painless to implement.
One of the few oldies but goodies on the list was /.
Now, if this poll was taken just two years ago, it would probably have been much higher up on everyone's lists - and Geek Forums (like: Channel9 ) would have been well represented
Can't you share an OPML file? We can play with them like playlists.. ;-)
Scobleizer (the blog) is somehow much more personal, more approachable. Slashdot seems to be in fire-and-forget mode, whereas Robert really cares about the issues he posts about.
Heck, I don't know. May be I just don't like the current layout of Slashdot.
With Digg, it is the worst, since the article is never on the front page. If Digg is the number one linked-to source in the linkblog, then that means that a ridiculous amount of the time, subscribers to the link blog have no hope of finding the main article. Talk to the Reader team, and get them to use RSS properly. God knows I've already tried on this.
I really, never expected this to turn up:) Atleast, I don't do only the last 30 days:)
http://www.tablane.net/yc/opml/
Maybe miss one or two.
What Google gives here is nice but what you bring to the table is a feast. You may have kicked the idea (Google Reader Trends) off.
Don't sweet this, you are still on a roll.
Guy
Don't Sweat this
Guy
Robert's shared items 53
MSDN Blogs 35
Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger 11
The Daily WTF 11
TechCrunch 9
Look whose number 1 AND number 3. And yes Robert there's alot of feeds I don't subscribe to because I know the best of them will come my way via you. Though there's a number I've subscribed to because you've featured them at some point or another.
http://www.tablane.net/yc/opml/scoble.htm
This is how OPML files cab be converted to a web page.
Thanks!
I do wince occasionally now at a few of the less tech items that have been on his link blog lately :)
I bet your boss really loves you if you carry this attitude toward work. I wonder if you actually do ANYTHING? How do you survive at work?
Of course, since anyone sharing his read items pretty much gives his identity anyway (as in Robert Scoble's link blog), this does not seem to matter much at first sight.
But, look the bigger picture, and see how all this information from Google Reader users could be aggregated by Google (or some other company) yet still retain the finest granularity level. This my friends competes with AOL massive user search leak.
It smells a bit ironical that so much people careful of their privacy would want to give it away like that...
So, I am down to writing for the MediaVidea blog for the moment.
http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/two-basi...
http://www.nik.com.au/archives/2007/01/04/lies-...
Also find it interesting that of your top 20, only two are single author blogs (Rubel and Web Strategy by Jereimiah). If I mislabeled another single author blog in your top 20, please correct.
Not a criticism, but an observation based on this data: seems like you prefer to link/share content from firehose publications -- those with multiple authors and many, many posts per day -- versus those from single authors.
This provides value to those who would rather get someone else's view of the best of these overactive pubs. I see this as a benefit that people like you, Robert, are helping to filter these signals.
;-)
Would love to see it more dominant in the industry
specially for the online networker.
Brian.
http://adsenseeliteteam.com
It is good to read fully open sharing of personal insights on that theme. However, one thing worries me. It looks that the most are concern just with increasing the publicity but not the level of personal relationships.
I am deeply convinced that the search engines are just tools to meet with each other, but not our primary goals.
The design of the letter is always the secondary; the main thing is our relationships. I am interested not so much in increasing my mailing list (that is good of it self) but in building on friendship that was already made.
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