aggienaut | Entries tagged with technorati

   Every year in the general area of mid-June I've examined the statistics of blogology. I hate to let traditions die, so I ran the numbers again this year.
   Additionally, it has come to my attention that many blogs see rankings on a webpage called Technorati.com as the premier measure of how successful they are. As far as I can tell these rankings are entirely based on how many blogs have linked to your own blog in the last six months. Anyway, I included technorati rankings in my latest compilation so as to compare the usefulness of the technorati rankings.

Control Group
   Since my original sampling of statistics consisted only of livejournals I thought would give interesting results, it is far from a random sample. This is unfortunate, since a random sample is exactly who you need in order to get a blogosphere-wide "average" to compare things to.
   Fortunately livejournal has a "randomly select a livejournal" feature. I recently used this to create a 20 blog sample group.
   In assembling this I came across 5 that lacked friends-of or other information in their profiles, so we can assume approximately 25% of the lj-blogosphere would fall in this group. I discarded these livejournals. These ljs looked like they probably sucked though anyway. =D
   Seven of the 20 were written entirely in cyrillic. Theoretically this would imply 35% of ljs are Russian. (I did not discard these)

Medians: The Control Group had the following medians:
( How do you compare to the average blogger? )