Academic Weblog Ranking Schemes
David Brake,
Blog.org,
Jun 16, 2004
Some commentary from Seb, who was ignored in this list of academic blogs" and from David Brake as well, who comments, "It occurs to me once again how people seem to have internalised the inequities that result from ranking schemes like these (which also help to drive Google). How could Alex think for a moment that one way to 'maintain quality' of a list of academic weblogs was 'only allowing blogs that had been linked to by other, already established blogs'?" Just for the record, a total of 474 blogs link to Stephen's Web, which would make me second on the list of "top academic blogs," or third, if the author also included Seb. In any case, I agree with Seb: "I guess I could sum up my thesis thus: if you're on a Quest for the Really New, you shouldn't act as if link rank is everything."
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