A couple weeks ago I went over to the Weblogs Ping Form and manually entered in a couple of websites including The Inquirer and The Register. For those unfamiliar with how the Blogshares market simulation works, here's a quick breakdown: a program (bot) scans each of the sites that ping Weblogs.com and then adds new ones to an ever growing database.
This database in turn places each weblog into the Blogshares marketplace and is within a few weeks time, a publicly traded entity (the value of each blog is dependent upon how many other blogs link to it and unsurprisingly, The Register is quite popular among geek bloggers).
Sure you can say I was pretty damn bored, but it's poetic justice -- individuals like Mr. Orlowski continually bash weblogs as a terrible, rotten nymphomania disorder, yet the very site he publishes such diatribes is by definition, a weblog.
Now that I have an inkling of your attention, here is a simple explanation for what a weblog is: a site that publishes content in reverse chronological order, some of which includes hyperlinks to other content/sites/blogs/etc. It can be topical or entirely helter skelter and is usually updated once a month or so (the word "often" comes to mind).
The Register runs about a dozen stories each day, all in reverse chronological order. Many of the stories include links to other content/sites/blogs/etc. And, it is geared towards management information systems and technology.
Sure it might not be as community oriented as Slashdot or Kuro5hin, but there are other ways to tell how popular it is from a blogging perspective. Look at the Technorati, Organica, Popdex and Google results.
That's right, holy beeping scheise batman.
Maybe all this time Orlowski has been trying to hint to his editors, to allow more teenage girls to freelance for them... or maybe Andrew Orlowski is Andrea Orloudski, an average 16 year-old gal from the suburbs of the Midwest.
It's elementary my dear Watson.
Posted by Tim at July 31, 2003 11:58 PM | TrackBackhmmm...most girls I talk to don't even know what a blog is. oh wait...
Posted by: Bob Parker at August 1, 2003 06:12 PMI'm not thinking Robin ever said scheise but go with it man I dig that you make up your own language :P
hey btw in all your linky loving you do I know you've had to come across the fix for the comments remembering info right?
so get on it babeee!! don't make me bust yo ass :P
*mwah*
Posted by: gnome-girl at August 1, 2003 11:46 PM