Did you notice the new widget over here on the right sidebar, “Ranking”? Yesterday morning amidst all the flurry, I had an email from someone at Blogged.com (a new one on me), announcing that
Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it an 8.3 score out of (10) in the Society category of Blogged.com.
This is quite an achievement!
http://www.blogged.com/directory/society
We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.
After carefully reviewing each of these criteria, your site was given its 8.3 score. …
Please accept my congratulations on a blog well-done!!
Sincerely,
[somebody in the marketing department]
Well, I had no spare attention to pay at the moment, so I sent it along to webmaster riddenword to check out. His report:
In ‘blogged.com’s’ formulation, a ‘society’ blog is a catchall term – Reuters is in there, as is the HuffingtonPost, also Treehugger, the Nation and SCOTUSblog. They rank 33,768 blogs in their ‘society’ category, and folo is ranked number 304, ahead of Pajamas Media (310) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (375) blogs, putting folo into the top 1 percent of blogs they’ve ranked.
I’d say that looks pretty good. blogged.com started earlier this year as a way of helping people find blogs worth reading.
“Wull gee,” I responded, “I figured it was just some marketing ploy.”
“There’s some marketing in it,” he wrote back,
they want to become a go-to place for people to find blogs worth reading, so they can sell ads to their audience of searchers.
But content is king on the internetif they don’t offer good recommendations to their searchers, nobody will use them. If nobody uses them, they won’t be able to sell ads, so they’re putting some effort into finding good blogs.
Therefore: I’m fixing to write a nice thank-you to Blogged.com for the ranking and another to riddenword for slapping their badge in the sidebar (and for all the things he did and does to account for its landing here).
Of course for me, the thing that most makes folo Great is the conversation — you guys are ever our secret sauce. But now that we know about it, we can all go browse Blogged.com for fresh goodies to slather it on, hey?
Lotus,
So if we’re the collective “Secret Sauce,” does that make you “G. Love”?
Uh, um, I’m a little behind on my pop culture, Phantom. Who?
Top 1 % of all blogs? I agree. Congrats on a well-deserved honor.
Glad to have your seal of approval, MC. Thanks so much.
If it weren’t for me, you likely woulda got a 9.5 or better. That’s what you get for letting me on here.
Congratulations anyhow. You run a good show here.
Indeed, well-deserved rating.
Lotus,
That’s G-Love and Special Sauce, a band from the 90s I think. I can’t believe they haven’t rated their own music post by now. NMC is falling down on the job.
But seriously, this is a wonderful blog and you folks are brilliant.
“Nineties” R.Wilco?? Come on now, their last release was just a few years ago…not to mention G. Love’s solo album in ’06. I guess I’m getting older than I feel.
Lotus, they’re in the same “jam band” genre as The Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, etc.
Ah, many thanks, chappies 5 through 8.
Okay, firecrackers starting around here. Good thing all three of my feline overlords are pretty mellow about sudden noises (Florida-breds, doncha know, used to thunder).
Phantom @ 8, I must be down on my pop culture too. Time flies, you know, 80s, 90s, now…
Katie Couric’s blog rates a 9.0 on that site. By that standard, I’d say you’re vastly underrated.
Well thanks, Cujo. I checked out a few of the upper listings too, noted Katie’s, and must say I didn’t quite get the drift of these ratings either. Oh well.