Comments on: Looking at Liblogs: How you can help http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/ The library voice of the radical middle. Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-13210 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:50:00 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=326#comment-13210 Hi Laura,

Pardon the delay in this comment appearing: Spam Karma flagged it as spam (probably because of the six-week lag), but with a low enough level to show me the content. So I rescued it from spam: I’ve now done that twice in the last month, for different reasons.

I continue to welcome new figures, and just got one today, but that sub-investigation is separate from the general look at liblogs anyway (for one thing, something like half of the figures I’ve received are for blogs that are too widely-read for this year’s “great middle” look). I think I have about a dozen sets of figures; I’ll work with whatever I have when it’s time to do that work. Nobody should go to more than five minutes’ work to send me figures!

As to the heat wave, the promised general relief has apparently been delayed, but right around here we got a little relief, at least: Looks like it’s just breaking 80 now outside, which is a WHOLE lot better than, say, 97 or 98 or 100.

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By: Laura http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-13206 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:25:32 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=326#comment-13206 This post has been sitting in my “keep as new” pile for, gee, over a month and half, reminding me to look at my statistics. . . which I just did, only to realize that, since lis.dom is hosted as a part of my larger website, I don’t have separate statistics for it. There’s probably some way of ferreting them out, but one I’m going to pursue–and from recent posts, it sounds as though you have your work cut out for you as it is.

Hope it cools off there soon!

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By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-10636 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:37:14 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=326#comment-10636 Thanks. And, by the way, I should note that this comment is #1000, apparently. Milestones should be appreciated (and much preferred over millstones).

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By: Donald E. Carlo http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-10537 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:40:28 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=326#comment-10537 I am doing a blog now on blogspot. It is not syndicated as far as I know. I was the head of Reference at the Bloomfield New Jersey Public Library and now I have a librarian job in state government. I have a dry sense of humour and my blog is mostly a dry look at our profession from a middle aged librarian.

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By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-10427 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:24:42 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=326#comment-10427 Steve, I used Technorati as one of several factors last year, and probably will again this year. But Technorati and several other “ratings” look strictly at links, not readership–and are heavily affected by blogrolls and echo-chamber effects.

I agree that Technorati is as bad a way as any.

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By: Steve Lawson http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-10426 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:53:50 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=326#comment-10426 Any reason not to use Technorati ranking? That seems as bad a way as any, and has the benefit of already existing.

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By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-10381 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:54:00 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=326#comment-10381 Steve,

That’s true–and Bloglines isn’t the only aggregator by far. Last year, I tried to deal with that by temporarily subscribing to all of the distinct feeds and adding up the numbers; I might do that again. Any set of numbers is no more than indicative, and this year’s study will certainly not be “in order by reach” (been there, done that, don’t believe the significance of the results, won’t do it again).

Is there any such thing as “good data” when it comes to blog popularity? I sometimes wonder.

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By: Steve Lawson http://walt.lishost.org/2006/06/looking-at-liblogs-how-you-can-help/comment-page-1/#comment-10379 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:20:03 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=326#comment-10379 Damn, I knew I shouldn’t have set my stats tracker to ignore my own hits to the site!

A more serious problem for getting good data: people subscribe to my blog through at least three different feeds, leading to at least three different feeds to add together to get my total Bloglines subscriber base. I expect mine is not the only one to have RSS1, RSS2, Atom, and Feedburner from the same site.

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