5 responses to “Keep an eye on them aggregators…”
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Great post! As you can imagine, we at Blogniscient agree that categorization and ranking of blog information is the way to achieve our goal of getting hundreds of millions of internet users as hooked on blogs.
To get an idea of where we see things going, check out our blog ( http://blog.blogniscient.com ). In particular, I wrote an article a few weeks ago entitled ‘A Vision For Blogniscient’ which outlines our goal of becoming the portal to the Blogosphere for millions of users ( http://blog.blogniscient.com/2005/10/30/a-vision-for-blogniscient/ ).
Ben Ruedlinger, PhD
President, Blogniscient, Inc.
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Thanks for the comment and the link, Ben. I look forward to hearing more about Blogniscient’s Article Ranking System (ARS)and how it works.
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Interesting thoughts. For me, the fundamental question is one of content credibility. I will happily listen to/read a blog from a journalist or an accepted independent ‘expert’. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there’s any way of assigning credibility to an author, currently. Yes, the memes are out there but what can we rely on for the information we need to retain and share?
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“Don’t believe everything you read on blogs”, eh? has a familiar ring to it…
I think that just as people take into account the bias of the paper they are reading they will take into account the bias of the blog.
Blog content for the time being is complementary to mainstream media in the way that many consume it.
For instance, I have a “news” folder in my RSS aggregator, but it’s mainstream media that feed into it. The other folders bring together TV, telecom, mobile, PR, marketing, and other blogs and I go to them for interesting finds and conversations.
I wouldn’t necessarily rely on any old blog for facts – not without checking its source. But then again, if I was really being thorough, and I had a lot riding on the judgement I was making based on those facts, I would check veracity of important information from any media.
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I agree, in part. But at the moment I see blogs as a group of conversations. Don’t get me wrong I love conversations and we all learn a lot from having them. However I quite like to be told the facts from sources I trust (generally in mainstream media). And I believe that a lot of people will continue to consume media in that way.
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