Perhaps influence is measured more effectively through ideas than it it is through links. Is there not a way to understand what kinds of thoughts in the blogosphere are influencing change? Maybe tag clouds can help. Maybe meme tracking or something. But if you could get a sense of how ideas translate into influence or how they drive change and then match that with what kinds of people talk about those things, then that would help me decide who to pay attention to and when. I don't care what a Top 100 blogger has to say about music, as I already know who the music influencers are in my life...and their blogs are small.
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Re: Where are the blogs that matter to me?
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Rex Hammock
on Tue 16 Aug 2005 05:12 PM EDT rexblog
Strange, those link measuring approaches. On Feedster, I have nearly 1,000 links (and thus make "the list"), but on Technorati, I've been below 200 links for the past year. One reason for that is I had over two years of links vanish due to my blog being closed down by its original hosting service. I was able to retrieve the blog, but not the Technorati mojo created by incoming links.
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Re: Where are the blogs that matter to me?
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rafer
on Tue 16 Aug 2005 06:23 PM EDT rafer
John U is a special case of our not differentiating blogs that do not have their own subdomains -- which isn't a great state of affairs, but we'll fix it.