Comments on: Musing about rankings

By: Silence: Is it the way? « Joy Of Innovation

Silence: Is it the way? « Joy Of Innovation — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:19:32 +0000

[...] 2007 · No Comments Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev often stresses the importance of silence. Now Google is also says so, thanks to JP of Confused of Calcutta. Now with so many post mentioning about Flow, I’m wondering if the Blogosphere is very close [...]

By: Stephen Smoliar

Stephen Smoliar — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:05:47 +0000

JP,

Like devangshu, I would be interested in your “musing” (which seems to be a favorite verb for you these days) on the Kathy Sierra story. The BBC certainly decided that it was important. My own take would be to issue a challenge to your “four pillars,” which is that they can only stand if they are supported by a firm foundation of governance. My thoughts on what the Sierra case can teach us about governance are at:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/03/does-unthinkable-come-after-farce.html

I then supplemented them with my “reaction to the reactions” that the BBC released this morning; you can read the follow-up at:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/03/reactions-to-kathy-sierra-story.html

I think this is an important story for anyone interested in the real-world consequences of prevailing Web 2.0 ideals!

By: devangshu

devangshu — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:57:13 +0000

Hi JP,
What the hell is on with Kathy Sierra getting death threats??
DD

By: JP

JP — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:58:29 +0000

Lars, I prefer John’s view! And while I accept that scarcity creates demand, I don’t think my rankings did anything but go south when I lost my blog last year. No posts, no links, no eyeballs, technorati takes you down. I know of no ranking system that measures ” attempt to reach a site that isn’t there at the time”.

My suspicion is that Alexa concentrates on MS IE only, that technorati has high-speed decay of ranking when a site goes dormant (the six-month old links drop off daily with nothing to replace them) while Google, on the other hand, still tracks all the links. So Technorati thinks I am 300 sites linking in against a peak of 420 or so,looking at the last 6 months, while Google thinks I have over 3000 links, which is confused’s lifetime number.

I still prefer the suggestion that people value my keeping quiet. I’ve been told to shut up by too many people for too many years :-)

By: Lars Plougmann

Lars Plougmann — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:43:33 +0000

Scarcity creates demand? A few years ago when we were running into capacity problems with a collaboration service we started telling people to hold off using it, and usage… surged.

Didn’t “Confused of” climb in the Technorati rankings during the time it went completely off the air for a few days last year due to a technical glitch?

By: John Dodds

John Dodds — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:14:45 +0000

Google clearly acknowledges the eloquence of your silence!

By: JP

JP — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:19:23 +0000

Thanks Dave. Will get around to that conversation with you sometime soon. Learning a lot about lifekludging right now….

By: Dave - lifekludger

Dave - lifekludger — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:12:57 +0000

Hey JP. Great to see any post from yourself and to know that the delay means you’re taking care of yourself. Part of why I like having the podcast is as a way of expressing more without the effort and complexity of formulating something written. When everything doesn’t work as it should, or even as it used to, we need to find a way around it – a lifekludge even! :)

Dave