Comments on: J-Cal’s troops on the attack over Technorati critics: conflict of interest not in vocab http://www.blogherald.com/2006/02/15/j-cals-troops-on-the-attack-over-technorati-critics-conflict-of-interest-not-in-vocab/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.blogherald.com/2006/02/15/j-cals-troops-on-the-attack-over-technorati-critics-conflict-of-interest-not-in-vocab/comment-page-1/#comment-86781 Marshall Kirkpatrick Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:06:26 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2006/02/15/j-cals-troops-on-the-attack-over-technorati-critics-conflict-of-interest-no-in-vocab/#comment-86781 Hmmm...by this logic any blog in a network would have an unfair advantage, the larger the network the greater the advantage. To be honest this wasn't something I had considered. It makes a lot of sense though and seems to be another problem with the authority system. I also hadn't thought of it as keeping riff raff out (I'm a big fan of riff raff - my personal blog marshallk.com would get whacked by a high slider in most searches), but a way to selectively limit certain searches to blogs that were extensively engaged in the most communicative part of the blogosphere - sharing links from other blogs - relative to others in the discussion of that topic or keeping out search spam. Sometimes a slider based on inbound links makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. And I'm glad it's an option for when it makes sense. But point well taken about the effect of blog networks on this system. Hmmm…by this logic any blog in a network would have an unfair advantage, the larger the network the greater the advantage. To be honest this wasn’t something I had considered. It makes a lot of sense though and seems to be another problem with the authority system.

I also hadn’t thought of it as keeping riff raff out (I’m a big fan of riff raff – my personal blog marshallk.com would get whacked by a high slider in most searches), but a way to selectively limit certain searches to blogs that were extensively engaged in the most communicative part of the blogosphere – sharing links from other blogs – relative to others in the discussion of that topic or keeping out search spam.

Sometimes a slider based on inbound links makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t. And I’m glad it’s an option for when it makes sense. But point well taken about the effect of blog networks on this system.

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