Comments on: PostRank confuses me http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html Technology, leadership, and the future of schools Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ilya Grigorik http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html/comment-page-1#comment-10870 Ilya Grigorik Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html#comment-10870 Scott, thanks for the great feedback. 1) That's a duplicate feed in our system, we're working on resolving this issue. Good catch. 2) We are very lax in a definition of a 'blog'. In fact, our system can process any website with an RSS feed. We've tried to tippy toe around the blog concept but then decided to go with it as there is no other clear description for RSS-enabled websites. 3) Out of curiosity which list were you looking at? One of the things we're going to do in the near future is open up the editorial process of global lists (Education, etc), to our users. So you will be able to add other feeds and remove bad ones. 4)Good point on the top posts. Blogs are ranked by their week over week engagement. We're still playing with the right interval: week over week may be a little too unstable, we might have to move to a longer timeframe. Cheers, Ilya Scott, thanks for the great feedback.

1) That’s a duplicate feed in our system, we’re working on resolving this issue. Good catch.

2) We are very lax in a definition of a ‘blog’. In fact, our system can process any website with an RSS feed. We’ve tried to tippy toe around the blog concept but then decided to go with it as there is no other clear description for RSS-enabled websites.

3) Out of curiosity which list were you looking at? One of the things we’re going to do in the near future is open up the editorial process of global lists (Education, etc), to our users. So you will be able to add other feeds and remove bad ones.

4)Good point on the top posts. Blogs are ranked by their week over week engagement. We’re still playing with the right interval: week over week may be a little too unstable, we might have to move to a longer timeframe.

Cheers,
Ilya

]]> By: Greg Ritter http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html/comment-page-1#comment-10871 Greg Ritter Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html#comment-10871 Edu.blogs.com is in the PostRank system twice, because PostRank doesn't appear to be handling trailing slashes. E.g. notice the first entry's is <a href="http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs" rel="nofollow">http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs</a> and the second entry's URL is <a href="http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/." rel="nofollow">http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/.</a> PostRank is almost certainly treating those as two separate URLs because of that trailing slash. Edu.blogs.com is in the PostRank system twice, because PostRank doesn’t appear to be handling trailing slashes. E.g. notice the first entry’s is http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs and the second entry’s URL is http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/.

PostRank is almost certainly treating those as two separate URLs because of that trailing slash.

]]> By: Shelly http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html/comment-page-1#comment-10872 Shelly Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html#comment-10872 Does PostRank follow some sort of spider around the Net? Or is it based on people first entering in a feed as a suggestion to the PostRank site (like on Technorati or other places)? Does PostRank follow some sort of spider around the Net? Or is it based on people first entering in a feed as a suggestion to the PostRank site (like on Technorati or other places)?

]]> By: Joel http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html/comment-page-1#comment-10873 Joel Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html#comment-10873 Wow, I just signed up. It looks like the potential is there for this thing to be pretty powerful. I like that it tracks del.icio.us, Twitter, FriendFeed, Google Bookmarks, diigo, and no telling how many other social networking things. Wow, I just signed up. It looks like the potential is there for this thing to be pretty powerful. I like that it tracks del.icio.us, Twitter, FriendFeed, Google Bookmarks, diigo, and no telling how many other social networking things.

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html/comment-page-1#comment-10874 Ewan McIntosh Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/postrankconfusesme.html#comment-10874 No, Scott. I just think they liked my blog so much they put it in twice ;-) (The slash explanation sounds more likely, though :-) Hope you're well. No, Scott. I just think they liked my blog so much they put it in twice ;-) (The slash explanation sounds more likely, though :-)

Hope you’re well.

]]>