Joe Crawford on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:42:18 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> More blog aggregators worth looking at |
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Francis Hwang wrote: > More fruitful, I think, would be to beat the drums loudly for the rising > blogosphere, and ways that non-obsessives can start following along with > this sort of chatter. Me, I used Blogdex for a while > (http://blogdex.media.mit.edu), which counts links across the > blogosphere and then tells you the most popular. These days, most of > these links are straight war stories, of course, but there's also the > Gulf War Drinking Game, and some guy in the National Guard who had his > name legally changed to "Optimus Prime". Roll out! > > Blogdex isn't the only blog-aggregating service out there: There are > lots of different approaches, all imperfect. The main problem with > Blogdex is that one story can show up in the same form at ten different > sites, each being heavily linked to. When the bombing started, for > example, the front page was flooded with different stories on it, though > they were all pretty much saying the same thing. More sophisticated > aggregation would be great, to help truly novel stories stand out, but > it would take some seriously heavy lifting to pull that stuff off. And people are working the problem even now. One supposes, yes, Blogger/Google is working on such a system, but check these: blogdex: (the first one i remember, but not as useful as it might be) http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ popdex: http://www.popdex.com/ popdex: "War on Iraq" http://www.popdex.com/s/War_On_Iraq popdex: "Anti-war" http://www.popdex.com/s/Anti-War popdex: "Protesting the protesters" http://www.popdex.com/s/Protesting_The_Protestors technorati: http://www.technorati.com/ technorati: last 3 hours: http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/currentevents.html technorati: top 100 recent interesting blogs http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/interestingblogs.html daypop: http://www.daypop.com/ daypop: top 40 http://www.daypop.com/top/ daypop: top news bursts http://www.daypop.com/newsburst/ (and more inside-baseball links, about who's linking to whom) blogrolling: top 100 http://www.blogrolling.com/top.phtml blo.gs: most watched blogs http://www.blo.gs/most-watched.php myelin: blogging ecosystem http://www.myelin.co.nz/ecosystem/ truth laid bear blogging ecosytem http://www.truthlaidbear.com/ecosystem.php - Joe -- Joe "ArtLung" Crawford San Diego California USA: http://artlung.com/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net