Technorati Indexing MySpace Blogs
I found this interesting from RSS Blog : "In the last few days, Technorati began indexing MySpace blogs. Aaron Brazell says "The quality of the Technorati results has diminished in my eyes" and "99% of MySpace blogs are not blogs"
There is alot of snobbery about MySpace. Firstly, on my estimate, honed by reviewing 5 figures worth of Australian MySpace accounts, approximately 8-10% of MySpacers maintain active blogs. Now in Australia we have 1m on MySpace, so thats still up to 100,000 Aussie MySpace blogs. And contrary to what those born after 1983 say, the writing does make sense, and in some cases is groundbreaking.
If it's technically possibly absolutely MySpace blogs should be included in search indexes. That is if they want to reflect the real blogosphere as opposed to some technical 40 something geeks paradise.
There is alot of snobbery about MySpace. Firstly, on my estimate, honed by reviewing 5 figures worth of Australian MySpace accounts, approximately 8-10% of MySpacers maintain active blogs. Now in Australia we have 1m on MySpace, so thats still up to 100,000 Aussie MySpace blogs. And contrary to what those born after 1983 say, the writing does make sense, and in some cases is groundbreaking.
If it's technically possibly absolutely MySpace blogs should be included in search indexes. That is if they want to reflect the real blogosphere as opposed to some technical 40 something geeks paradise.
posted by redbarren at 8:54 AM
7 Comments:
Agreed, the one issue I see with MySpace is that some of the best writing, rich media, and comments don't happen on the blog(RSS Feed), but on those beautiful stylesheets they allow their users to make. So how do you intelligently index and tie it all together?
JG
I saw a title go by somewhere earlier this morning that something like 200,000 blogs were deleted from MySpace because they weren't "real", take it for what it's worth lol.
filters have to be in place just like deleting splogs, but welcome MySpace.
here's what I was referring to earlier:
http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=16350
You know what? Your blog is way too good for Blogspot.
MySpace is crap. It has always been crap and the service is getting worse. So why would credible bloggers looking for an audience use it? It's not like there was anything going for it in the way of publicizing individual bloggers up until Technorati did its thing. What could possibly drive a realistic blogger to use it?
aaron, what is a "realistic blogger," or how do you define a "credible" blog? is it simply that which doesn't offend aaron brazell's sense of snobbishness? not that there's anything wrong with that for you personally, but such criteria are a little slim for technorati to rely on, methinks...
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