Update on the Pulled Rankings Page
John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which hosts these Harvard blogs, posted a note earlier today about the status of the rankings page and why it has been pulled.
I’m trying hard not to feel responsible for them pulling the page, but there was a recent discussion in this space about the page and the differences between what it tallies and what each blogs’ hourly hits counts. We talked about the differences at a blog meeting a while back, but I don’t remember there being a concrete answer to the question about the discrepancy.
As I’ve typed before, many of us Harvard bloggers would watch the page to gauge our own traffic since we could get a comprehensive count that way. I joked a lot about competing with others for rankings, but I certainly didn’t take the competition very seriously. I miss the rankings page because I liked being able to easily monitor traffic to this blog.
Maybe I can find a comparable tool in one John suggested or something else that will give me similar results. The Recently updated weblogs page has a list of about 100 blogs with the time or date of their last update. It could be a good resource for figuring out who has blogged on Harvard’s server recently.
August 10th, 2004 at 9:13 am
Traffic counts are interesting but it can be a little hard when you have different intended audiences. Easy for those who are aiming for an academic audience to feel their rank is under-valued when you have someone who is after mass media coverage and gets it. That’s really just a symptom of someone trying to read more into the numbers than there is to them, though. They aren’t “ego” or “reputation” scores. Just hits.:)