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Technorati undercorrects, Sina to blamePosted by Joel Martinsen, May 5, 2006 9:16 AM
After various sources pointed out that Technorati was seriously undercounting Chinese-language blogs (among other non-English pages), the blog indexing service quickly took action to make sure that China's most popular blog, written by celebrity Xu Jinglei, was included. Xu Jinglei's blog now tops the list, outpacing even BoingBoing. This is a serious undercount, says tech blogger Keso. Xu Jinglei's blog is hosted on Sina, whose system draws no connection between a blog's front page and the individual comment pages below it. Front pages are of the form http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/xujinglei, while pages are indexed as http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/46f37fb501000317. Keso says:
So Technorati's figure of 28,151 sites and 45,700 links to Xu's blog are to her front page alone. Links and Sources
There are currently 4 Comments for Technorati undercorrects, Sina to blame.
Comments on Technorati undercorrects, Sina to blameEr, you know, the celebrity blogs on Sina seem to me a bit un-bloglike to the degree that they are practically advertised ad nauseum on the Sina home page and the By the way... WHAT IS "TECHNORATI"? I've heard people talk about this mythical site, but because I've never actually been able to venture out side the Great Firewall, I'm not sure what it is. My browser tells me that Technorati is something to which it "can't establish a connection." Awesome! So, there's a big debate among Chinese bloggers about the ranking of a celebrity blogger on some mythical site rumored to exist "beyond the wall" but which can't really be proved to exist because we can't access it? Intriguing.
One of the biggest uses of Technorati is to provide information on which blogs are linking to which other blogs - the rankings really don't mean anything, I don't think, but many people use it to quickly find out (a) what other blogs are commenting on and (b) if anyone has commented on one of their own posts. It's been available in Beijing up until a short time ago, so you must just be behind the curve there.... What did make blogs cool in the first place? Remember when no one would shut up about Kottke or one of the other blogebrities and what they had for lunch? Sure, Sina's front page is a huge billboard in some respects (and that's pretty much by design), and yes, there are lots of vapid blogs plunging into the maw, but I have just two words for you: LiveJournal. MySpace. There's nothing unique about the China situation, really, except for the current breathless reporting about it in the media. Interesting that Technorati changed their ranking system, rather than Sina changing their messed-up URLs. I suppose it's part of the "current breathless" pandering to all things Chinese. |
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