Comments on: KnittingFriends.com Launch

By: Pioggia

Pioggia — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:31:03 +0000

This was a very interesting post indeed. I never really got interested in the internet until knitting blogs sprung up a few years ago, and I love the idea of further tools that reinforce all this knitting networking. I’ll go check those sites.

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:25:06 +0000

Links to posts are one thing, but I sincerely hope you’re not posting photographs without permission from the owners of said photographs.

By: scout

scout — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:15:12 +0000

Huh….. veddy interesting!

By: lola

lola — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:43:24 +0000

I’ve had this post bookmarked forever in my Bloglines! Finally. Thanks for doing all the blog searching work. I love the idea.

By: Gaile

Gaile — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:25:02 +0000

Interesting. I guess I’m in the wait and see camp as to how this all pans out. The interview was enlightening, it’s always good to see all sides when something comes along that not everyone (myself included) totally understands. Thank-you.

By: Lolly

Lolly — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:55:32 +0000

Jody, I am thrilled to see such a high quality informative interview. Thank you for putting this content out there. Thank you to Vishen for answering the questions too!

By: Kate A.

Kate A. — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:18:59 +0000

I still don’t see what basis they’re using to judge the content…what makes ‘hot’ ‘hot’? They say “we don’t look at the traditional factors…. only the quality of your content matters.” – how is a bot judging content? I’m sorry, but this is *not* how the NY Review of Books operates – not to mention that I personally don’t agree with NYRB or most other mainstream filters very often about what’s worth my time – how many people’s tastes really and wholly overlap with the top 3 on the Nielson count?? To me this sounds like the antithesis of Web 2.0 – asking us all to run back into the same old ruts created by others rather than creating our own pathways. But I didn’t mean to be all negative and I don’t want to rain on the parade – I’d just really like to know how the content is being judged and according to what criteria – with specifics rather than (I’m sorry) empty enthusiasm. Short of human reviewers who sit and read every post (and, btw, this is already done, and done well, and it’s called Yarnival) – I don’t see how it could work.

By: Eve

Eve — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:33:06 +0000

This is a great idea! I’ll definitely check this out, being a web geek myself.
Just fyi, the first link to knitting friends is sans http://.

By: Vishen

Vishen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:57:49 +0000

HI Glenna
Good Questions….”Do hot bloggers get hotter and cool ones get cooler?”
We do the exact opposite. We create a level playing field.
SocialRank, by nature, studies only the content on your blog and does not take into account any metrics that come from how long you’ve been blogging.
Think of this as a form of “Brand Dampening”. We dampen the influence of brand-name bloggers from skewing the data.
For example, we know that long established blogs tend to score better in terms of bloglines subscribers, technorati rank, google page rank etc. If we followed just these criteria, a new upstart blogger with some great content but little history in the field would have a hard time gaining attention.
So we don’t look at the traditional factors. With SocialRank, only the quality of your content matters.
Look at knittingfriends.com and make a note of the list of links in the sidebar. You will notice these change daily and include many smaller blogs.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:30:42 +0000

This looks good! We need something a littlebetter than Bloglines! Or, they could be used together.