Crunching The Numbers
Since I've been at this blogging thing for almost two years now, I figured I had it down. I mean I'm a sophomore. I know what a blogroll is and how to use it. I actively use my site meter as a delurking "come out, come out wherever you are!" like tool. I added Haloscan to my blogspot blog that has since been somewhat deblogspotted. Ok, so maybe I had help. That's not important now.
Then I was having an innocent conversation with Tommy a few weeks ago about blog status. This is when I came to the harsh realization that I still had so much more to learn.
If you must know, the conversation was inspired by the do's and dont's of blogging nominations specifically related to the BOB's. He was "campaigning" for a particular blog to make it to the top 10 even though he admitted he never really read it. His plea was on principle since he was told that said blog was not eligible, basically because it had too many hits.
So I started to defend this rationale. But anyone who knows Tommy knows it is sometimes hard to differentiate when he is being serious and when he is being seriously silly. So when he started talking about ecosystems, rodents and whatnot I just assumed he was being cute in the way only Tommy can.
Then I realized he was actually referring to something. Something I somehow knew nothing about... until now.
The something, or more specifically somethings are rating systems such as Technorati and Truth Laid Bear. Now most of you are probably thinking how can she NOT know about this? This is when I tell you that not knowing about it is only half true.
I mean I've seen the words Technorati and Truth Laid Bear on blogs before. But to be honest, I didn't think anything of it. I see lots of things on blogs I don't question. If I questioned everything on every blog I see I would have plenty of time to blog because I'd also be something we like to call U-N-E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-D.
What I did next is exactly what I tell my third grade students not to do all the time.
I copied.
I copied other bloggers and signed up for Technorati and Truth Laid Bear because everyone else was doing it. Yes, when it comes to blogging, I am a "if he jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge I would, too" kinda gal.
Then again, the best way to learn about something is to learn by example. So now I'm listed in Technorati, not to be confused with a Maserati, although the system does go pretty fast. I'm also in Truth Laid Bear. Both of these systems do a bang up job of keeping you abreast of the who's, what's and where's of people who are linking to and reading you...or not reading and linking to you...as the case may be.
According to Truth Laid Bear I am currently an "adorable little rodent". The system, however, is not without imperfections (i.e. I think it only tracks blogrolling links or at least it doesn't track all links) I mean I knew I was adorable and little but a rodent? Come on now. That's not nice.
Which makes me wonder, now that I wrote about such tracking sites, this post would come up under the tracking systems searches themselves, right? Neat.
Of course, I still can't wrap my head around trackback--- though people have tried to explain this to me before. All I know is that it apparently has nothing to do with eight tracks.
Then I was having an innocent conversation with Tommy a few weeks ago about blog status. This is when I came to the harsh realization that I still had so much more to learn.
If you must know, the conversation was inspired by the do's and dont's of blogging nominations specifically related to the BOB's. He was "campaigning" for a particular blog to make it to the top 10 even though he admitted he never really read it. His plea was on principle since he was told that said blog was not eligible, basically because it had too many hits.
So I started to defend this rationale. But anyone who knows Tommy knows it is sometimes hard to differentiate when he is being serious and when he is being seriously silly. So when he started talking about ecosystems, rodents and whatnot I just assumed he was being cute in the way only Tommy can.
Then I realized he was actually referring to something. Something I somehow knew nothing about... until now.
The something, or more specifically somethings are rating systems such as Technorati and Truth Laid Bear. Now most of you are probably thinking how can she NOT know about this? This is when I tell you that not knowing about it is only half true.
I mean I've seen the words Technorati and Truth Laid Bear on blogs before. But to be honest, I didn't think anything of it. I see lots of things on blogs I don't question. If I questioned everything on every blog I see I would have plenty of time to blog because I'd also be something we like to call U-N-E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-D.
What I did next is exactly what I tell my third grade students not to do all the time.
I copied.
I copied other bloggers and signed up for Technorati and Truth Laid Bear because everyone else was doing it. Yes, when it comes to blogging, I am a "if he jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge I would, too" kinda gal.
Then again, the best way to learn about something is to learn by example. So now I'm listed in Technorati, not to be confused with a Maserati, although the system does go pretty fast. I'm also in Truth Laid Bear. Both of these systems do a bang up job of keeping you abreast of the who's, what's and where's of people who are linking to and reading you...or not reading and linking to you...as the case may be.
According to Truth Laid Bear I am currently an "adorable little rodent". The system, however, is not without imperfections (i.e. I think it only tracks blogrolling links or at least it doesn't track all links) I mean I knew I was adorable and little but a rodent? Come on now. That's not nice.
Which makes me wonder, now that I wrote about such tracking sites, this post would come up under the tracking systems searches themselves, right? Neat.
Of course, I still can't wrap my head around trackback--- though people have tried to explain this to me before. All I know is that it apparently has nothing to do with eight tracks.
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