Hey,

Cool work man! Did u query each one of them individually or did u run some program?

• said Kaps at 3:28 a.m. on 7th August, 2005 ¶

quote>Thanks to Technorati's developer API, it was easy to get the required information.

When someone who codes for a living says that, you can be sure there's no individual querying involved :-) Of course, the API is slightly flaky, so had to manually fill in details for a couple of entries.

I could even set this up to automatically create a 'State of the Desi Blogosphere' report every month.

Assuming, of course, there's interest in that.

• said deepak at 5:13 a.m. on 7th August, 2005 ¶

I noticed that Rashmi Bansal (Youth Curry) is missed out. her rank is in the 6000 range.

• said Kaps at 11:28 a.m. on 7th August, 2005 ¶

you know, at BlogHer last week (which featured Dina as a guest speaker), the inaugural session discussed/debated/ranted about how technorati is useless when it comes to rankings, too because of entrenched links and other complaints i don't remember right now. guess nothing pleases everyone.

• said reshmi at 11:14 a.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

When I use http://ashish.typepad.com/ in technorati search it only shows 28 inbound links. But with http://ashish.typepad.com/ashishs_niti, it shows 71 inbound links. Could you please change the URL to latter.

• said Ashish Hanwadikar at 12:17 p.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

That's a neat piece of work !

But I guess Technorati's days are numbered...folks are gunning to get the 'authoritative' blog search engine out...did you know that someone offered a $10 k reward to beat technorati?

Why don't you try for that?

;-))

Regards, Gautam

• said Gautam at 4:15 p.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

But who cares about rankings? Just sounds like a big circle jerk to me.

Oh wait, the advertisers.. they need to know who are the top bloggers!

• said deepak at 4:58 p.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

Check again, the stats listed here are indeed for http://ashish.typepad.com/ashishs_niti.

• said antrix at 5 p.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

Why don't I try? 'Cos I do this out of interest, not money :)

And writing a rapidly updating crawler really isn't interesting. Everyone knows Yahoo is building a blog search tool and I can bet you a drink that Google is also crawling blogs in some Alpha product which will soon be Beta.. hence public ;-)

• said deepak at 5:04 p.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

aah ! that explains it....

Have you tried http://www.icerocket.com ? Mark Cuban's behind this one (and he's plugged it on his blog) and seems to be a nifty tool !

Am wondering...any way we can build in bloglines subscribers to the table you made?

Ok ok, just kidding!

• said Gautam at 9:58 p.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

How does one find one's own Technorati cosmos ranking?

• said Ravages at 10:13 p.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

How does one find one's own Technorati cosmos ranking?

• said Ravages at 10:21 p.m. on 8th August, 2005 ¶

Hi Deepak Thank you for linking to my post. I think technorati is a good way to rank blogs but not necessarily bloggers. If you could get a comment on your blog from any of the above bloggers, who would you like to see comment here? That could be several different people depending on your preference. For most people, I think Amit Varma of India Uncut would be most prestigious blogger you could find.

• said Michael H. at 8:33 a.m. on 9th August, 2005 ¶

170 links from 130 sites, and a cosmos rank of 8445. Is that good?

• said Ravages at 10:49 a.m. on 9th August, 2005 ¶

Nothing new in icerocket. And it is opaque to developers. Really, unless you provide an API, you aren't creating a web platform. And if you aren't creating a platform, you don't count.

AFAIK, Bloglines doesn't provide a clean query mechanism for this. Let me dig a little more and see what's possible

• said deepak at 12:38 p.m. on 9th August, 2005 ¶

That's pretty good I would say. Then again, beauty lies in the eyes....

• said deepak at 12:39 p.m. on 9th August, 2005 ¶

If most people would like a comment from Amit, then it is extremely likely that all those people have blogrolled him, no? So his inboundblogs count goes up and hence his cosmos rank goes up. Simple :-)

I don't mean to say this is a perfect system. But it's the best a quantitative system available now.

• said deepak at 12:43 p.m. on 9th August, 2005 ¶

LOL.

• said Ravages at 3:34 p.m. on 9th August, 2005 ¶

What is cosmos ranking? As in, is a greater number good, or a smaller number?

• said Ravages at 3:35 p.m. on 9th August, 2005 ¶

The data would be even more useful if the list of URLs is vetted slightly. For e.g., Jivha doesn't blog anymore, and neither are his posts available anywhere.

Another thing you need is a serial numbers column.

• said Deepak at 1:16 a.m. on 10th August, 2005 ¶

Oh ya! cool stuff btw :)!

• said Deepak at 1:17 a.m. on 10th August, 2005 ¶

When I said, 'you don't count' I meant 'you aren't interesting' i.e. 'you don't count in things I should explore'

• said deepak at 10:13 a.m. on 10th August, 2005 ¶

Detecting inactive blogs is on my todo. But I am still thinking about how to handle additions to the list of blogs to track.

Why serial numbers? The columns can be sorted on the fly.

• said deepak at 10:20 a.m. on 10th August, 2005 ¶

It's a rank. Just like school, smaller is good.

at least for most people, smaller is good ;-)

• said deepak at 10:21 a.m. on 10th August, 2005 ¶

Serial numbers because I was thinking you could have a relative ranking of Desi bloggers that way.

Even when the list is sorted, right now there is no way of finding out exactly how far down in the list is a certain blog located.

• said Deepak Jois at 10:53 a.m. on 10th August, 2005 ¶

No no! Are we giving out prizes here? ;)

I think, 'You know, I am pretty far down in the list. I better blog more!' is good enough :-)

If possible, help me out with the initial sort by inbound blogs on load problem please.

• said deepak at 11:03 a.m. on 10th August, 2005 ¶

Could you please add me to the list

• said arZan sam wadia at 7 a.m. on 27th August, 2005 ¶