Comments on: Blogstorm Shows Blogs’ Most Popular Posts

By: A Guide To How Not To Do Web 2.0 Design (And Tech Reporting)

A Guide To How Not To Do Web 2.0 Design (And Tech Reporting) — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:29:54 +0000

[...] other day I was interested in a company that was profiled on TechCrunch. I’m a stat junkie so this company had a product that interested me. I looked over the [...]

By: hjqoooangx

hjqoooangx — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:36:54 +0000

Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! dstkwsured

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:22:22 +0000

Awesome! Although I have a pretty good handle on all of my top entries, this tool could be useful in helping me get specific information.

By: foobar

foobar — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:39:25 +0000

Kind of annoying that you have to install a php script on your server. Still not clear on why this is necessary. I’m not thrilled about installing others’ scripts on my servers without much more detail.

By: W.Medina

W.Medina — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:21:15 +0000

devils advocate for the simple man, —- what benefit would I receive from this? Or what can I do with it that would benefit readers and visitors?/???

By: Erwin Feldhaus

Erwin Feldhaus — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:34:18 +0000

Full of enthusiasm I went to try and fill our the form. I would have even gone farther than Rob and Eric, but… surprise, I cannot upload any php code to my blog as I don’t host it…

Too bad that this does not have a less intrusive mechanism.

Yet the idea is not bad.

By: Eric Marcoullier

Eric Marcoullier — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:37:55 +0000

@Rob — I had the same response. Got very excited, started filling out the form, got to the php page and figured “yeah, I’ll put in that much effort” then got to the API key and figured “nah, not that much.”

@Blogstorm / Patrick — Gimme a shout at eric at MyBlogLog dot com and I’ll hook you up with someone at YDN. Maybe you can get them to lift the limits.

By: Timoty

Timoty — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:38:04 +0000

Cool stuff, i think it`s very usefull. Thnx )))

By: Rob La Gesse

Rob La Gesse — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:38:14 +0000

I love the idea – but you lost me at “Go get A Yahoo API key…” Sorry, not signing into two things to get one thing.

If you figure that out, email me – I would love to join… One thing.

By: Gary King

Gary King — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:22:09 +0000

Two things that annoy me on the site though:

1. Beta in the logo. Self-explanatory.
2. The .co.uk domain name. I’m personally against domain names that are country TLDs and aren’t actually country-specific, but that’s just me

By: Gary King

Gary King — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:21:04 +0000

This is a very nice and easy tool to use. Very cool!

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:19:37 +0000

Justin – this is a service that launched today. I believe the headline is fairly descriptive. Perhaps this just isn’t the blog for you.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:08:32 +0000

“breathless over blogstorm.”

Hey Michael, ok “breathless” is my shorthand for what I really wanted to say which is this, in long form: if you’re going to put up something, like an entry on jobvent, or alexa data on a rising social network, or this one, is it wrong to expect that you do a little basic digging first from a default position of kindly skepticism?
Basically I consider almost every headline as probably an exaggeration (typical secondlife publicity is a choice example). If you don’t dig a bit, then you end up doing unpaid PR.

By: patricia

patricia — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:08:11 +0000

Aw, come on – anybody here knows that these kind of things (like all sites) are an ongoing development. It’s kind of silly to pick it apart knowing fully that all of us with sites launched with limited features, bugs, etc.

At least the IDEA is good. I think a lot of bloggers would get into this type of thing.

By: Cristian Mezei

Cristian Mezei — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:41:03 +0000

Patrick, a very warm congrats ..

I wanted to blog about it first, but got hang up with other stuff..

I guess Michael made the most of it

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:34:42 +0000

Justin – Yeah, that’s me. breathless over blogstorm.

By: BlogStorm

BlogStorm — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:23:56 +0000

Justin: The link data we get is from Yahoo so we can’t really exclude links from splogs without spidering the web ourselves, something which isn’t really feasible for this kind of service.

You will find that the Weblogs Inc blogs get a lot of links to start with and the figures reduce to a proper level after a week or so once the posts are no longer being syndicated across every page on the network.

And yes, we don’t implement nofollow but if the site is being abused then we might take action.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:15:45 +0000

and further ..
http://www.blog....uk/tracker.php
shows the top entry as an “autoblog” post with a ridiculous 398 thousand inbound links. Investigating this example shows most of them are splogs, or semi-splogs, and blogstorm is being fooled by entries like these across their network:
“Other Weblogs Inc. Network blogs you might be interested in” which list this post.

So basically blogstorm can’t tell a real blog from a splog, and can’t tell a real mention from a blogroll mention, and xml feed shown on a blog, or even an advert!

Sorry to be cynic, yet again, about a breathless news post on techcrunch.

By: Hornswaggled

Hornswaggled — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:12:11 +0000

It doesnt look like the links pages are using the nofollow attribute. Hopefully you wont get a bunch of spam submissions though I guess you guys are looking for as many users as possible.

Pretty neat tool and takes the Yahoo link data a step further.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:09:13 +0000

I’m not sure it is working that well.

eg, this page
https://siteexp...mo=d&bwmf=u
shows a bunch of urls from the same blog, blackrimglasses are inbound to the techcrunch article

and when I view source from any one of those listed links, it doesn’t show techcrunch at all.
The same issue with some of the other supposed “linking to” pages that I randomly tested.

So I’m not sure the “number of links” entry means much of anything at all, and it appears to suffering hyper inflation.

By: BlogStorm

BlogStorm — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:43:44 +0000

Thanks Michael.

The Flash charts can all be embedded in your sites and we are in the process of creating some widgets to add a list of popular posts to blog sidebars.

All feedback gratefully received, I will personally look at all the blogs that are submitted to make sure the tracker is picking them up properly. It can take a few hours for the link data to start showing.

Patrick

By: matthew

matthew — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:39:37 +0000

very cool…i’m going to use this on my blog.

By: Michael Vu

Michael Vu — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:27:19 +0000

It’s about time!

By: Kevin L.

Kevin L. — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:26:25 +0000

I think there’s something wrong with the site. Apparently my blog has no readers….

I have got to teach my mom how to link.

By: netmuse

netmuse — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:12:18 +0000

Pretty neat!