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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: Roll Your Own Blog Leaderboard With Google Reader Trends

  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
    Thanks so much for supporting me and bloggers like me through your efforts of sharing posts you find interesting, having guest posts, and highlighting new people and products. There are people who do the things you do but they usually get paid for their work.

    I know all the work you do here, up to and including your blog posts, are due to your genuine interest and enthusiasm for us and social media in general. As hard as it may be to believe, your career and living are made outside of this sphere. Add to that the busy private life of a new father and I absolutely have no idea how you manage to maintain your pace.

    So, thank you. For everything.
  • Jesse Stay · 1 year ago
    Wow - I'm honored. Top 20! Thanks for sharing so much, Louis.
  • gregorylent · 1 year ago
    you and yuvi should start a company, or at least a stat service side business... amazingly analytical minds ... and the intuition (ha, analyze that!) to feel what to look for
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    I have encouraged Yuvi before to use his Stat efforts to start making real money. I for one, would pay real cash to have him do some custom analysis. I even made some recommended price bands. Hopefully, when he wants to do it, we'll see some real effort there. As for me, I'm not a statistician. I just play one on TV.
  • gregorylent · 1 year ago
    a very fine actor you are. i am going to go see yuvi when i next go to chennai. maybe it will be girls before business for awhile, but don't tell him i said so.. amazing guy .. enjoy, gregory
  • Hank Williams · 1 year ago
    wow... #11 thanks!!!!
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    Hank, it wasn't that long ago that I sent you an e-mail and said I've admired your work on your personal blog and on Silicon Alley Insider. I'm glad the data here proves it true in a big way. Keep up the excellent effort.
  • techdude · 1 year ago

    congrats to the top 40! http://blabtech.blogspot.com



    sent from: fav.or.it
  • Rishabh Mishra (possible248) · 1 year ago
    I never thought I'd see the day that I was on a leaderboard of any sort. :D #19 FTW!
  • Scabr · 1 year ago
    Probably,shortening LG isn't so good http://tinyurl.com/5nuyxf
  • Jeremy Toeman · 1 year ago
    Thank goodness you didn't make this a Top 38 list!!

    39 FTW! YES YES YES!

    :)
  • Svetlana Gladkova · 1 year ago
    Louis, that's a great idea, another one that may help not only discover new sources but actually demonstrate what matters. What bothers me a little is that even you with your bias towards small individual bloggers still have the top 10 dominated by larger multi-author blogs. I guess that's another proof of your recent post supporting Techmeme and Techcrunch - the individual bloggers may try as hard as they might but the news will still be dominated by Techcrunch simply because they know how to produce tech news blog.
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    I have no issues with the fact that TechCrunch, the Inquisitr and Read/Write Web are featured as high on this chart as they are. That's due to two things: # of total stories and quality or interest of stories. Until individual bloggers are producing more total posts than multi-author blogs, it will be typically weighted this way.
  • Svetlana Gladkova · 1 year ago
    Louis, I have no issues with their positions as well, my question is do you think it is only determined by the number of daily posts or by the quality. I tend to think that while quantity is important since people simply tend to notice more of their pieces, without quality it does not matter since 10 creepy posts are worse than 1 good one.
  • Aaron Brazell · 1 year ago
    *Sob* Louis doesn't read my blog.... *Sob*
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    So VentureFiles at #34 doesn't count? That's what I've had instead of TechnoSailor since day one. Should I change it?
  • Aaron Brazell · 1 year ago
    Ah I missed VF... Cool. :-p
  • 1001noisycameras · 1 year ago
    I discovered this yesterday, and liked the idea so much that I created one today! It's a fun exercise! I combined shared+starred+reads, but gave the reads a lower weight.

    @Svetlana Gladkova, how about a normalized leaderboard, where the number of shared posts is divided by the total number of posts during the month? That way a blog with 500 monthly posts and 50 shared would be equal to a blog with 50 monthly posts and 5 shared?
  • Donz · 10 months ago
    1, It is difficult to read the Leader Board (sideways),the
    2, Where are the more recent LB's?