Ecosystem

[Sifter]

"The TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem is an application which scans weblogs once daily and generates a list of weblogs ranked by the number of incoming links they receive from other weblogs on the list."

Sounds a bit dry? Possibly, but the piece of code you get for your site is very neat - a little classification from "Higher Being" down to "Insignficant Microbe"... (guess which one I am !!)

>> http://www.truthlaidbear.com/ecosystem.php

Have implemented the code on my blog, if you want to see (bottom right):
http://thewiredjester.blogware.com

[abacquer]

As near as I can tell the "truth laid bear" ecosystem is dependent on a database of speculative accuracy. I have a significant number of incoming links on my site, but my site doesn't appear in the list because I (a) never physically entered my site into the list and (b) most of my incoming links are from sites which are also not entered into the TTLB database.

Doesn't really sound like it is worth it as a means for representing blog popularity. The "Daily Visits" information, for example, comes from SiteMeter... another site you have to sign up with if you want that information in their database. BlogHarbor tells me I had 661 visits last night, but SiteMeter doesn't know who I am.
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-- Abacquer, A.K.A. Chuck Seggelin

[Sifter]