{"id":714,"date":"2006-07-19T02:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=450"},"modified":"2010-03-25T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:36:15","slug":"is-tail-a-metric-of-blogpost-quality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/714","title":{"rendered":"Is &#039;&#039;Tail&#039;&#039; a Metric of Blogpost Quality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>*X-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/mozdawg.blogspot.com\">MozDawg on DAV and Docs<\/a>*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>see my homepage: <a href=\"http:\/\/bentrem.sycks.net\/index.html#tailrank\">AlphaDawg AT DreamHost<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In my previous post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mozdawg.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/birthing-ultimate-feed-reader.html\"> Birthing the Ultimate Feed Reader<\/a>&#8221; I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/2006\/07\/14\/the-river-versus-folder-rss-approach\/\">the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153river\u00e2\u20ac\u009d versus \u00e2\u20ac\u0153folder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d RSS discussion in the Scobleizer blog<\/a> and wrote, &#8220;what something is worth depends on how much of it there is and how fast it&#8217;s moving&#8221;. In what I do I&#8217;m challenged to manage whole families of technical documents (herding cats, yes?) while attending to minute details, even while things are in flux (hence &#8220;nailing jello to the wall&#8221;). So finding axes of differentiation \/ categorization (semantic web anyone?) is something I worked on before WWW came into being.<\/p>\n<p>So the notion of a quality metric that manifests as ?what? longevity &#8230; seems to me that has face validity. <a href=\"http:\/\/tailrank.com\">TailRank.com<\/a> operates on such a supposition: that the number of branches springing from a post represents some quality. I&#8217;ll buy that.<\/p>\n<p>I just spliced some TailRank output into my frankenstein homepage (see the link above) &#8230; turns out to be good reading!<\/p>\n<p>From my list of something over 200 blogs I&#8217;ve requested that TailRank filters out those that have more than 25 ?what? spawned threads. Koolio. Really.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tailrank.com\" border=\"3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tailrank.com\/images\/logo-new.gif\" height=\"18\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"55%\">\n<p>This just in: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.infoworld.com\/t?ctl=1317547:1F5093A\">IT Gets Drafted to Babysit the Blogs<\/a>, by David L. Margulius at InfoWorld.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have time to read Weblogs. There, I said it. I&#8217;m not saying the blogosphere&#8217;s emperor has no clothes. I&#8217;m just trying to be realistic about how much time I can spend in life reading other people&#8217;s musings. According to the latest Jupiter Research study, however, I may be bucking an unstoppable trend.<br \/>Nearly 70 percent of all large companies will have deployed a Weblog authoring system by the end of this year [&#8230;]<br \/>The immediate upshot, says Jupiter, is that IT needs to &#8220;figure out how to leverage existing Web content management best practices and functionality [&#8230;]&#8221; These best practices include workflow, single-source content repositories, security and permissions, and content auditing and analytics.<br \/>But on another level, I wonder whether there&#8217;s a bigger picture that IT should be thinking about.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good that the InfoWorld crew is wondering about it &#8230; very timely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*X-posted from MozDawg on DAV and Docs* see my homepage: AlphaDawg AT DreamHost In my previous post &#8220; Birthing the<a href=\"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/714\" class=\"searchmore\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}