{"id":93,"date":"2002-11-29T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2002-11-29T15:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2002-11-29T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2002-11-29T15:06:44","slug":"blog-prom-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Blog Prom Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New blog database shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/links.html?rank=&amp;amp;url=levin.blogspot.com&amp;amp;sub=Get+Link+Cosmos\">who links to your blog<\/a> and lets you watch your rank in the blog hierarchy; and provides a for-pay service to track your blog ranking.<br \/>\nWhat I like: lets you discover inbound links.<br \/>\nWhat I don&#8217;t like: treats blogs like a high school popularity contest.<br \/>\nThe single-peaked popularity ranking obscures &#8220;subcommunity&#8221; patterns &#8212; there are knots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellbeattie.com\/notebook\/\">java bloggers<\/a> and <a href=\"www.instapundit.com\">political bloggers<\/a> and <a href=\"www.aprendizdetodo.com\">Austin bloggers<\/a>; and plenty of bloggers who participate in multiple communities (like physical life).<br \/>\nWhen Blogdex started picking up a lot of Persian blogs in its top rankings, the designer considered reducing his coverage to english-language blogs only. That&#8217;s exactly wrong. The right thing to do is to reveal blog blogcommunities, and identify leading voices in those subcommunities. Hmm&#8230; Valdis Krebs probably knows how to do this&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd raw popularity seems beside the point. Some of my favorite blogs are low-traffic blogs from people who don&#8217;t do much self-promotion. This blog is a place to write about the various topics I&#8217;m interested in; not filtered by which topics are most popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New blog database shows who links to your blog and lets you watch your rank in the blog hierarchy; and provides a for-pay service to track your blog ranking. What I like: lets you discover inbound links. What I don&#8217;t like: treats blogs like a high school popularity contest. The single-peaked popularity ranking obscures &#8220;subcommunity&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=93\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog Prom Queens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}