I’m just a little leery about doing anything to blo.gs directly, after suggesting something (can’t even remember what) that ended up putting Shannon in blo.gs purgatory, having pings via weblogs.com ignored.
And having accidently (no, really) clicked the ”most-watched” link just now, I’m not going to be able to face going back there for a while. Good Lord, what are people thinking? Sure, I spiked the results by doing that blogroll.php code, but out of 58,122 choices they can only find two better than me? Tied with MeFi? That’s so completely wrong I can hardly even joke about it.
]]>Since many people who set up favorites will read that page (and find out what a great guy you are ;), you’re likely to be in more peoples favorites list.
]]>the purgatory that shannon went into was temporary, and is explained (but perhaps not in the right places) on the site — once you ping blo.gs, information about the site from the other sources (weblogs.com, pitas.com, whatever) is ignored for three days. the idea is to prevent spurious updates caused by those other sources reporting different times.
what fascinates me about the most-watched list is the total absence of any of the warbloggers. i wish i’d thought ahead enough to snapshot the listing each day. it would be interesting to see how it has changed over time.
]]>Now that I think about it, though, I do remember reading you saying something about supporting RSS autodiscovery before long, don’t I?
From vague memory, the sites in the top ten or twelve have been pretty much the same, in different orders, for quite a while, but there’s quite a bit of movement in the next ten.
Also interesting about the warbloggers is how many of them are using the javascript from blogrolling.com – are they indifferent to Google PageRank, or do they not realize that they aren’t doing their linkees any favors that way?
]]>i hadn’t considered the effect of a javascript-based blogroll on pagerank. that’s interesting.
yes, rss auto-discovery is on the way (for sites that ping blo.gs directly, and maybe for ones which only ping the other sources), along with other similar things. (blogchalking and foaf stuff seem like they’d be interesting.)
]]>Note to self: steal this code: ”Just a reminder to me that I want to steal Mark Paschal’s blo.gs RSS ping for Movable Type code and convert all the lovely Python into somewhere between three and ten times as much PHP.” Source: Phil Ringnalda I just tri…
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