26 April 2005Honey, the marsupials are maraudingEric Siegmund bids farewell to the TTLB Ecosystem, finding its priorities and his no longer in sync. Perhaps the Ethel the Frog Ecosystem might provide a closer approximation to what he's looking for and it's a lot faster than Technorati. (Via some blog which will probably be deleted by tomorrow anyway.) Posted at 2:31 PM to BlogorrheaCharles, that's pretty close to what I'm seeking, although a "Wilbur the Flatworm" ecosystem has a better acronym. As far as whether my priorities are out-of-sync with TTLB's, I really wouldn't know (despite what I might have written; I'm not responsible for that, of course) as, last time I checked, I had no priorities. Posted by: Eric at 2:54 PM on 26 April 2005I have found the TTLB Ecosystem to be inaccurate in tracking my inbound/outbound links. Posted by: Babs at 5:19 PM on 26 April 2005Hardly anything seems 100-percent accurate, but this is true of almost everything on the Net. Posted by: CGHill at 5:55 PM on 26 April 2005Woaaah...what's this inaccurate on the internet thing you speak of? Is it wrong/vain to want to measure the success of one's blog in relation to other blogs? And, other than TTLB, how would one do that? Posted by: Don at 12:05 AM on 27 April 2005There are other ranking systems. You might try signing up for BlogStreet, which rates, as of two minutes ago, 101,613 blogs. Still, this is only a fraction of the number out there; nobody has everything, not even Technorati, which claims to follow nine million. Posted by: CGHill at 7:45 AM on 27 April 2005But really, except for the top 20 or so, there's not much difference. It's the navel-gazing nature of the blogosphere, readers don't care about traffic or rankings, only other bloggers, but why? I know a well-traffick'd blogger who's always crowing when Reynolds links him & bitching when his traffic is down, but more or less traffic doesn't get you anywhere. The TTLB rankings in particular a just a game about how many blogrolls you're on. Posted by: jeff at 4:11 PM on 27 April 2005As are most such things, and so is the Blogshares game, which calculates values based on linkage. In TTLB specifically, I've never, so far as I know, made it more than halfway up the Large Mammal group; I try to avoid checking more than once a month. If I carried ads, I'd probably be more concerned about traffic, but right now I'm just surprised anyone reads this stuff. As the Onlie Begetter of the ETF Ecosystem, here's my rationale. I used TTLB for a bit, and like some of the commenters crept up,and then sort of stuck. Then I found myself doing things just to creep a bit higher. Which meant posting things I wouldn't normally bother with. Which I don't enjoy. So I decided on values-based categorization - if you're a Spiny, your a Spiny, whether you get a gazillion hits or none. And I can apply it to blog topics - moving the WaPo to from Kierkegaard to Dinsdale status for example. And of course Spiny is a true Epic Figure. Work in progress. Posted by: gandalf at 4:57 PM on 30 April 2005 |