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« Uh ... huh .. uuhhhhh ... | Main | Dean » May 20, 2004
Please Answer This Question, Thank You
Posted by Bill Bad form, but petty Ecosystem bashing ahead ... Ok, the Ecosystem breaks down on the week of the blogosphere traffic surge, a week that was likely INDC's best ever, with an Instalanche and somewhere around 40+ inbound links (some tracked, some not). The ecosystem failed to scan these links for a week, and now that we have a new update, it registers only 9 new unique inbounds. Perhaps I'm petty - no, I KNOW that I'm petty, but it's a bit frustrating to pour blood and sweat equity into crawling from the primordial ooze, only to lose credit for your accomplishment because of a tech snafu. I've been told that the Ecosystem lacks reliability, and I know that NZ Bear provides the service without compensation, but I find it hard to put much stock in a system that so selectively measures my treasured blogress. Question - would bloggers pay a nominal fee (say $5 a year) to subscribe to a new-and-improved ranking service that had a few additional features and guaranteed reliability and accuracy? One that could be held accountable as paying service? Or am I the only one who cares? This is just a question; I'm curious. I would point out that this suggestion might include the idea of paying NZ Bear himself. Me personally? I think that rankings are essential motivators and lynchpins to the whole concept of a "blogging revolution." Merely a few years ago, the idea that someone could become a noted public commentator without spending a lifetime in Big Media or by achieving some type of alternate fame was ludicrous. Now, we can achieve success through hard work, networking and quality material. A requisite to achieving this success is a fair, consistent and accurate ranking system - NZ Bear deserves a great deal of credit for initiating one. But, seeing as the blogosphere has grown to thousands of blogs, perhaps it's time that we start paying a nominal fee to financially support a professionally accountable endeavor. The trends are clear, the demand will exist - are we there yet? Not trying to step on many toes here, but this is my opinion. What's yours? Yay or nay? Am I a whiny little behoortch that grows too large for his Sunday britches? UPDATE: looking at some other blogs that I'm very familiar with, it looks like I may be the only one that truly seems to have missed out on this last update; some folks post impressive gains. I choose to take this as further evidence that God hates me for not believing in Him. Posted by Bill at May 20, 2004 11:14 AM | TrackBack (0) CommentsI dunno about a yearly fee, but I'd pay once to fire and forget... Posted by: Matt Hurley at May 20, 2004 12:12 PM Sure, I'd pony up a few bucks. That assumes I'll be ponying up a few bucks for other stuff, too. Posted by: Jimmie at May 20, 2004 01:44 PM You do have a point... God does hate you. Posted by: Iraqi Intelligence at May 20, 2004 02:14 PM I have been wondering that myself. I have had the my biggest week in a year. Fee? Sure I think that is reasonable. Posted by: Scott B at May 20, 2004 03:52 PM I'd pay. Posted by: SS at May 20, 2004 04:32 PM No. Yes. No. Posted by: Jeff G at May 20, 2004 04:45 PM Sure, I'd cough up a few bucks (kind of a hypocritical answer from someone who still uses Blogger, eh?) Posted by: The Overlord at May 20, 2004 06:58 PM Not sure if I'd pay ... Technorati profiles the entire blogosphere for free, although that includes one hell of a lot of dross. (Needless to say, I'm ranked *considerably* lower at Technorati than at TTLB Ecosystem.) I'd probably kick in for $5/year -- I'll skip lunch one day -- and with about 3,000 blogs there, it would add up to something significant. Much more than $5 and you probably lose me. Like that would be a tragedy, I know ... Posted by: Captain Ed at May 20, 2004 09:45 PM I don't have a blog, so it doesn't really matter, does it? Posted by: Xoxotl at May 20, 2004 10:35 PM Perhaps, but not until I got enough traffic that I might begin to care. Posted by: FH at May 20, 2004 11:33 PM No. Posted by: dorkafork at May 20, 2004 11:56 PM no Posted by: urthshu at May 21, 2004 12:38 AM Yeah. Posted by: Matt_Rustler at May 21, 2004 01:11 AM Properly chastened, yes. Posted by: Paulie at May 21, 2004 04:41 AM Yes, but for 5 bucks they better hype my stats. Posted by: Val Prieto at May 21, 2004 10:37 AM Yea, I'd cough up a fiver for that. In spite of the fact it'd just confirm my low rent bloging robot status ^_~ Posted by: GT at May 21, 2004 11:40 AM I wouldn't have much interest. There are already multiple ranking services, and they're all wildly divergent. The best is BlogStreet, but no one uses it for some reason. WHat really matters to me is having regular readers. You get those regardless of your ecosystem ranking. Posted by: Dean Esmay at May 21, 2004 01:15 PM Hmmm ... but readership and rankings are circuitously reinforcing ... I've never even heard of Blogstreet ... Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at May 21, 2004 01:26 PM No. God hates both of us, Bill. --|PW|-- Posted by: pennywit at May 21, 2004 02:00 PM Gladly. Posted by: maura at May 21, 2004 09:11 PM I would pay a small, one-time fee. Posted by: House of Payne at May 21, 2004 09:51 PM no Posted by: nathan at May 22, 2004 10:54 AM 1. I'd probably pay $5 a year. Probably not $10. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but TTLB still says my SiteMeter average is 3 when it's really (brace yerselves, now...) ten times that. I like surfing the Ecosystem and randomly picking new blogs to read. OK, it isn't random. I look for names I like. I'm shallow; does that make me a bad person? Posted by: Chris from Dangerous Logic at May 22, 2004 12:05 PM How else would you do it except by name? It seems to be popular knowledge that sitemeter undercounts. Posted by: Bill from INDC at May 22, 2004 12:32 PM Being a Poor Oppressed Caribbean Native® I naturally couldn't afford the five buck fee from any capitalist ethnic cleanser who wiped out my ancestors. I'd do it if they had some sort of affirmative action program for Poor Oppressed Caribbean Natives® or if the colonialist American government gave me some sort of a grant or something... Wait! This is the Democratic Underground Site...right? Posted by: Rtfm at May 24, 2004 10:27 PM Yep. Posted by: Claire at May 26, 2004 08:30 PM |
