February 11th, 2006
Northern Voice: Notes from Sifry on the Blogosphere
Currently sitting in on Sifry on the Blogosphere session at Northern Voice.
Amusing quotes from Dave Sifry:
- "I immediately became a stats whore."
- "We are leaving little droppings on the web."
- "Authority does not denote veracity.
Ideas:
- Blogs allow others to observe someone else's attention, interest and world view over time.
- Wanted technorati to pick up the immediacy of conversation.
- Web search engines search archives, but don't index by time.
- Popular bloggers are forced more towards being one-way, that is - they can't easily engage in all of the conversations that they start.
- The interesting emergent behaviour in tagging is that, as enough people tag, the semantic relationships between the tags emerge.
- Tim Bray asks Dave what can go wrong in the blogosphere (and remarks that if the current growth rate continues that everyone in the world will have a blog by 2008.)
- Dave gives a quote from Cory Doctorow: "All healthy ecosystems have parasites." - comment spam, splogs, spings, …
- A key thing is that blogging is accountable - you need to set up a blog and give it an address. For a blog to reputable, it needs time and trust (but not necessarily identity).
- Dave comments on Net Nuetrality, categorizing it as the current greatest threat to the Net. "In the US and around the world, there is increasingly consolidation between service providers. Local jurisdictions have granted de-facto monopolies to these providers. These providers plan to use their monopoly to artificially restrict access to resources, and then profit by allowing users to pay to remove restrictions.
- How do we fight spam blogs? Solve with the ecosystem. Technorati has a hotline with all of the major hosting companies to help report spam.
- Think about the catalogue model as a model for successful online advertising - people want good catalogues (Lee Valley, L. L. Bean, Victoria Secret, etc.)
- Google Bowling - the process of using stupid SEO techniques to sabotage your competitors (by making them look like the stupid SEO'r).
- Idea: Using the prisoner's dilemma for solving spam issues.
Interesting Stats:
Tags: Blogging, Cory Doctorow, Google, Media, Net Nuetrality, Technorati, Tim Bray, Uncategorized
- Blogosphere is growing about one blog per second.
- ~50% of bloggers are still blogging three months after they start blogging.
- ~11% blog once a week or more.
- About a million bloggers post daily.
- Technorati tracks about ~1.2 million posts per day / ~50,000 posts per hour / ~15 posts per second.
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February 13th, 2006 at 18:46
Thanks for the summary, very helpful!