I was absolutely astonished to discover that I am #22 on the Online Education Database‘s list of the top 25 bloggers. All grains of salt are required about the numbers. A bunch of blogs were not included in the study that could easily kick my pagerank backside. To name four: Information Wants to be Free (Meredith Farkas), LibraryBytes (Helene Blowers), Library Stuff (Steven Cohen) and Caveat Lector (Dorothea Salo).
The things that gave me a lead, I think, were 1) I have a relatively high page rank. I do not know why this is the case. and 2) Somehow I got a point in the Alexa ranking, which many blogs did not have.
Like all things rank-based, once you get down below #20, only the tiniest little advantage over the other blogs can bring you to the top of the heap. In fact, I think you can pick any of the blogs from the list and get a good read.
That said, if you think I’m going to take any of this data into perspective and shut up about the ranking, you are totally and emphatically wrong. :):)
I’m #22!
I’m #22!
I’m #22!
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Ryan,
I just want to say that you are great and you could be Higher in the rankings than stated, as I see they did not rank the number of people who use google reader,like me 🙂
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You know, I think you have the right attitude about this. Congratulations.
Which says I have the wrong attitude. So, I’m wrong. Oh, and also #…nah, never mind.
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Oh, and Sonja: The use of Bloglines count is because it’s discoverable. I can’t find out how many Google Reader subscribers Ryan has unless I ask him (and maybe not even then)–but Bloglines will tell anyone how many Bloglines subscribers he has. That’s why they use that one (as I do): It’s one of few discoverable metrics. (It’s also still the most widely used reader, apparently.)
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If you are hosting the blog or using feedburner you can find out the number of Google Reader subscribers.
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You’ve been doing some solid blogging of late, and your appearance on Uncontrolled Vocabulary http://uncontrolledvocabulary.blogspot.com no doubt helped just put it all over the top. 😉
You are a rising star, my friend. Keep up the great work!!
Cheers,
Connie
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Thanks Connie, though I think they did the ranking before I got in my ranty mood.
No one mentioned the preponderance of Canadians on the list either, so let me be the first.
I love uncontrolled vocabulary, though I think the late nights are killing me. But I want to do the next one, because I really want to show how far I can get my tongue inside my cheek with all my #22 bragging. 🙂
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