I don’t check the TTLB game all that often. It’s mostly an insiders game with little point but bragging rights among a very small portion of the blogosphere. Yeh, that’s right: Technorati does a moderately decent (sometimes) job of tracking more than 20,000,000 blogs—dead and alive. The TTLB ecosystem tracks what, about 50,000? A small number, in any case.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think the TTLB Ecosystem’s a bad game, and it does seem to track links among the blogs it tracks more quickly than Technorati. And in fact, the TTLB thing can be quite useful finding folks who link to me, so I can go check out what they are doing on their blogs (I feel it’s only right that I do so when I can, cos, after all, they did link to me, right?). And Technorati, possibly because of its size, is much less responsive to inquiries about problems—or at least it has been in my case.
Be that as it may, TTLB is mostly a pissing game* that does have some very useful features, and every now and then I check my “ranking” on the way to seeing who TTLB says is linking to me.
And then I also sometimes check the Ecosystem’s front page to see where buds at STACLU or some such are floating.
OK, so ‘splains me this:
Huh?!?!?
do you yahoo?!?!?!
CLUE: It’s. Not. A. Blog.
*sheesh*
*You guys remember the pissing game from grade school, right? Oh, and those of you guys who never matured beyond gradeschool probably played it in high school, too. *sigh* Hope you aren’t still stuck in grade school immaturity, though… Anyway, it is a simple game: who can piss the farthest/longest/highest. That’s all. Whoop-dee-do.
Scratchin’ my head at MacBros Place.
OMG! Weird!
And yes TTLB does update a little more often than Technorati. More so nowadays. Did you mail TTLB?
No, Rich, I haven’t emailed him. I figure, given the number of blogs still listed?some in the top ranks?that haven’t even been posted to in a year or more (and yes, after seeing the lil thing above, I did spend about 30 mins running down a few that I had a feeling had become inactive), I just figured, what’d be the point?
The number three “blog” in the TTLB ecosystem is… nothing. Just a “add my yahoo” link on folks’ pages. But since James Taranto’s NON-blog (“OpinionJournal – Best of the Web Today” not a blog and never has been a blog) is also listed in the top 100, I just figure it’s TTLB’s playtoy/game and he makes up the rules as he goes along.
Notaproblem. It’s just a game, after all. I figure, when ya subtract the notablogs and dead blogs listed above me, I’m Superman or something. *LOL*