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Blogdex
was originally conceived as an online resource for
monitoring topics for discussion that were in vogue at that time,
throughout
the blogosphere (which consists solely of blogs and their interactions
with each-other.
The term identifies the fact that blogs can exist as an interactive
community,
or as a collection of interactive communities, as well as a social
network in
which authors, regardless of their background and experience, can put
forward
their opinions for universal scrutiny).
The
website made available a list of links to online content
which had been referred to recently by more than one of the regularly
monitored
blogs. Every one of the links received a score on the basis of the
number of
different blogs that made reference to it, as well as and the frequency
of the
references. The list of links typically featured both items that were
popular
at that moment in time, as well as informative together with
controversial
original material relating to current topics of interest to the public
at
large.
Notwithstanding
its central focus on blogs, it may still be
regarded as the original memetracker (which is a tool for keeping track
of the
movement of memes, or fashionable ideas, throughout a group of people.
The term
normally refers to websites that either interpret blog posts to
evaluate which
web pages are being talked about or mentioned most frequently on the
web, or
that permit users to vote for links to web pages that they find of
interest).
Apart from this, Blogdex was, in fact, the seed for the development of
subsequent commercial websites, such as tailrank.com, Digg.com, and
other
social networking sites.
Since
he was the owner of the domains blogdex.com,
blogdex.net and blogdex.org, Jimmy Wales (an American Internet entrepreneur)
offered the domains to MIT, at no
charge, for use in the blogdex project. At this point, blogdex then
transformed
itself from the original blogdex.media.mit.edu location to blogdex.net.
The
blogdex project was instigated by researchers from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in order to crawl the web and accumulate data
from
thousands of blogs with the purpose of investigating their social
characteristics. It gathered data for over 4 years,
and duly tracked all types of
information flowing through the blog community, ranking it in terms of
frequency and popularity. Although the project is no
longer in
operation, the ideas have, to some extent, been replicated in the
social
network website, tailrank.com.
Technorati
is an Internet search engine used for blog
searches. It is the leading search engine in its field and, by June
2008, it
had indexed 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million items of tagged
social media.
Web indexing involves allocating keywords or phrases to web pages or
web sites
so that they can be retrieved using a search engine.
Blogs
are ranked by Technorati on the basis of the number of
incoming links they receive. In August 2006, Technorati discovered that
the
blog with the greatest number of incoming links on the internet related
to the
Chinese actress Xu Jinglei. The Chinese news agency Xinhua stated that
the blog
received more than 50 million page views. On this basis, they claimed
that it
was the most popular blog in the world. Technorati’s rating of the
weblog Boing
Boing made it the most-read group-written blog.
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