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September 06, 2006
Link analysis
Link analysis: Please 'scuse me while I act small for a minute, but this weekend's flurry of bounces off of Ross Mayfield's request for finding common links among personally trusted writers included a line from Memeorandum founder (and public benefactor) Gabe Rivera: "(Just for the record, the first round included requests from Jeff Clavier and Ted Leung nearly a year ago!)" I predated that... believe I also introduced Robert Scoble to Memeorandum (in comments to some difficult-to-search post of his where Robert said he used Google News as his homepage, probably summer 2004), and also had the first requests for a similar link-analysis engine among techbloggers. (There, I'm done being small now. :) These days I'm not sure on a straight "find the most frequent links today among bloggers I trust" line -- for dream feature requests, I'd like to adjust a slider among bloggers I trust and bloggers at large to avoid cocooning and to increase surprise. I'm generally more jaundiced about Memeorandum and TechMeme these days, after seeing how they've been gamed, at how much namecalling there is among some political bloggers, and how so many of the writers in the pool seem to be making nominal links to increase their own inbound traffic without offering compensating original content to the reader. Still a great tool, though, and I appreciate what Gabe has given us all here.
Posted by JohnDowdell at September 6, 2006 01:23 PM
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Hi John. Yeah, I see what you mean. Good call.
I did suspect people asked for this BEFORE I came along, so my trick was to only consider people who asked *me* for such a filter, and that began a year ago!
[jd sez: Cool, I read you, thanks for the notice and the work, Gabe!]
Posted by: Gabe at September 7, 2006 12:13 PM