QuackTrack
Steven Cohen writes about QuackTrack, a blog index he recently discovered. It seems there are more than three library weblogs in it.
The top 200 library weblogs are supposedly sorted by the number of incoming links, a way to measure popularity. The blogs you might expect to find on top are there: ResourceShelf, The Shifted Librarian, and Library Stuff. Garrett is at 31. None of the blogs I contribute to are on the list.
A few of the German weblogs deal with Wikipedia.
(What? You didn’t really expect me to stop blogging, did you?)
Addendum 12/7: Blogshares help documentation explains how to correct some multiple listings for the same blogs, a problem Steven mentions. I don’t think the problem they describe matches the problem with the list, though.
December 7th, 2004 at 11:22 am
Maybe you received more incoming links overnight because I see scratchpad at #33
December 7th, 2004 at 11:26 am
That’s wild. I wasn’t in their system last night–at least I couldn’t find the scratchpad using their search and by browsing for it.
December 7th, 2004 at 11:30 am
Ah ha! I didn’t think to search under a different name for this weblog. I wonder why they don’t use the name of my blog or the name that’s in my feed. (Yes, I checked.) I’m kinda irked by that. How is anyone going to find this blog if they don’t use its name?
December 7th, 2004 at 2:04 pm
In order to try to get them to change the name of this blog in their system, I had to join Blogshares to report the error. I noticed many other Harvard-hosted blogs in their system have the wrong names, too. I wonder why they point potential subscribers to feeds in Syndic8 instead of using the feed generated by the blog.
I’m trying to claim the scratchpad in their system (which is why I have their graphic at the bottom of my blog). Maybe I can get additional benefits/privileges associated with my feed by doing so. In Feedster, I control my blog’s name and a few other things associated with my feed there.