This is no case of sour grapes. No, we didn’t get on CMU’s list of the 100 newsiest blogs, which is based on such factors as which are first to pick up news and gossip.
But the list is a bit odd. Finding Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit on top isn’t too surprising given the blog’s high profile.
But next on the list is a site called Don Surber that has only been updated twice since the start of October and one of those posts is about being on the CMU site. CMU does note that its list is based on 2006 data, but still.
Next on the newsiest blog list is a site called Science & Politics . It also boasts of being on the CMU list, but with a twist:
This Blog Is Dead!
Apparently some computer geeks at Carnegie Mellon came up with a complicated mathematical formula to decide which blogs should one read to be most up to date, i.e., to quickly know about important stories that propagate over the blogosphere?
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And how useful it is to read a dead blog – this one you are at right now, my old blog ranked #3? I abandoned it in June 2006. I occasionally use it for testing stuff or for Google-bombing 😉 If you want to read a really useful blog, go check my current blog, not this one!
I’ve made it through about a quarter of the list and so far, so good on the rest.
Of course, my interest in the list is from a journalistic standpoint, checking out the topics and styles. But CMU is making another point with its blog list. The algorithm its researchers used to come up with the list can also be used for other diverse uses, such as detecting contamination in water supplies .
