{"id":2395,"date":"2008-05-05T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:17:03","slug":"techmeme-and-the-a-list-canard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/05\/05\/techmeme-and-the-a-list-canard\/","title":{"rendered":"Techmeme and the “A-list” canard"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a fan of Techmeme, I try to stick up for the site whenever someone writes about how it’s just an “echo chamber,” or how it’s dominated by the “A-listers” — so it’s nice to see a little empirical data<\/a> from Yuvi, the 17-year-old data guru behind Statbot. Yuvi and his statistical abilities were recently re-discovered by the now-ubiquitous Louis Gray<\/a> (who himself is living proof that Techmeme and the so-called “A-list” can be broken into by just about anyone if they are determined enough).<\/p>\n

Yuvi tracked the data from Techmeme’s headlines and found that while 30 per cent of those headline links come from what might be called “A-list” blogs, another 30 per cent come from blogs<\/a> that are probably on the C or even the F-list. It’s easy to complain about that first 30 per cent — and perhaps it’s even valuable to point out that a certain proportion of the blogosphere gets more than its share of attention. <\/p>\n

That’s a good thing to remind ourselves of, even just so that we can all keep our eyes open for new and worthwhile blogs, like Corvida’s SheGeeks<\/a>, or Sarah in Tampa<\/a>, or the next Louis Gray. But I still think not enough attention gets paid to the other 30 per cent that Yuvi talks about — the blogs that are just being discovered. They are there — all you have to do is look for them. And when you find them, link to them.<\/p>\n

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As a fan of Techmeme, I try to stick up for the site whenever someone writes about how it’s just an “echo chamber,” or how it’s dominated by the “A-listers” — so it’s nice to see a little empirical data from Yuvi, the 17-year-old data guru behind Statbot. Yuvi and his statistical abilities were recently … <\/p>\n

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