Technology, Politics, & Celebrity - What’s an Entrepreneur To Do?
I’ve already commented on the rampant spread of celebrity throughout the blogosphere, and on the fact that technology, politics, and celebrity are by far the most popular topics.
I was searching through Technorati’s popular news section and noticed something interesting. While technology takes the prize as the most popular subject, the vast majority of news articles linked to on the popular section relate to politics (the war in particular).
Why?
It could be that politics is playing a bigger role in today’s news then it did a few months ago, but I doubt it. The real reason seems to be that the blogosphere is actually the one making the news in the realm of technology and celebrity, so there’s no real need to link to outside news sources. When it comes to politics, that’s still the foray of the old-line establishment like the NYTimes and Washington Post.
We can thank the tech geeks and national voyeurism for successes in those fronts. When it comes to politics though, it looks like The Huffington Post liberalism parade is just not cutting it. Now don’t get me wrong… Ariana Huffington is not the only one to blame.
Why does Technorati only include links to outside news sources when it comes to sourcing popularity? Technorati IS A BLOG AGGREGATOR. It should aggregate the links to particular posts and incorporate them into these results!
More on Technorati’s confusing site upgrade another time… I’d rank it slightly worse than the new Google Analytics, after all there’s one person that likes it…
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May 29th, 2007 14:35
Hi Mark,
The upgrade is certainly an improvement. What don’t you like about Google Analytics?
It’s better than any of the other services I’ve seen.
I mean, you can pay a lot of money to get a worse product than the free Google Analytics.
It’s difficult to present such a diverse range and large quantity of data in a usable manner - I think they’re done a great job.
Cheers,
Dan.
May 29th, 2007 19:53
I’m not taking anything away from what Google has done. It has certainly done a great job in distributing and designing its free tool. It’s the process of change that’s confusing and sometimes perplexing. Obviously, this is a big change for many website owners and I was merely commenting on that.
Mark