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12/03/2003 Entry: "Blog Ranking"
If you keep a blog, does its "ranking" matter to you?If you're a blog reader, does the popularity of the blog make a difference to how you read it? Are "rankings" useful tools, fun games not to be taken seriously, or just an irrelevance?
Questions, questions. But not, for now, any answers.
Replies:
There are always going to be people that need to perceive themselves at the top of some heap.In Canada broadcasting is rated by BBM (Bureau of Broadcast Measurment) - the bible for any station. It defined our workplace; our pecking order as online personalities. I got a paycheck so I had to pay attention.
I think that's part of the reason I get my back up like Ali and others in the blogosphere.The ranking and alpha mentality seems anti-blog, commercial, and controlling.
Posted by Bene Diction @ 12/03/2003 11:56 PM CST
It bugs me when someone gets obsessed with their ranking, that knocks a blog off my "to visit" list for good (I have one site in mind here). It strikes me as pompous, "look at me, I get so many hits!" Being a backwater blog can be good for the ego, in a "spinach is good for you" way.
My blogroll is for my own use, so I can hit my blog page and Ctrl-click a pile of tabs open in Mozilla.
Posted by Ali @ 12/03/2003 02:34 PM CST
1. No. I couldn't care less.2. No. But it helps me find them.3. Irrelevance. Do people rely more on kitsch than reading? I hope not. That's not why I write.
I blog therefore I am. Being unpopular does not make a person not a person. Get to know a person and there is great wealth.
(My next job is going to be at a fortune cookie factory!)
Posted by timsamoff @ 12/03/2003 02:22 PM CST
