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Whoehaa! My girl made in to the top 100! Coo-hool.
Yet, according to that same girl: How come I made it, and not, let's say Eskimokaka (influence: 16)? Or Dykes and The City (influence: 9)?
She's quite modest (did you read her already?), I totally get why she made it into this list.
Yet I still don't get the algorithm of Metatale.
I am indeed missing Eskimokaka not to talk about Veerle (influence: 13, yet the only one with PR8), Tales From The Crib (influence: 13), Druppels (influence: 16, 13), Smetty (influence: 14).
So ok, their top 100 changed, with Kerygma and me and a bunch of others appearing into the first 100. But where did these others go? I mean, Veerle is certainly an influencer. No doubt about that...
Or am I the only one questioning this?
Update: I am not against Metatale at all, I support their idea of conversation between blogger/influencer and marketeers.
But I am left with some questions. Maybe Veerle has too many conversations worldwide instead of local, but it doesn't explain why an Eskimokaka, or iBert isn't in the top 100. Linked all over, and linking a lot.
Actually when reading 'Dus, voor degenen die graag wat hints krijgen: veel linken (van en naar), veel reacties geven en krijgen, veel posten... dit helpt allemaal om MetaTale invloed bij te krijgen.' makes me wonder why Netlash itself is listed yet not scoring higher. If anyone has an online life, comments on posts right away, frequently updates its site, links and is being linked, Bart is certainly 'active' I'd say ;)
If I dare to compare this to myself: no comment blog nor commenting myself, a link list, yet not an active linker, and ok my posting frequency is higher I guess. I just don't understand it, is what I mean...
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Posted on November 21, 2007
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The question you need to ask is not whether someone is an influencer per se, but rather whether someone is an influencer wrt a certain subject matter within a certain (geographical or other) area.
If Veerle posts something controversial on her weblog, is the Flemish blogosphere (however you want to define it) all over it in a matter of hours? Nah, not really.
The Top 100 is more or less useless and more of a teaser than anything else -- the guys have more or less admitted as much. I think of it as the list of sites where you'd want to get something published to generate buzz (urgh) in the Flemish (Dutch-speaking) blogoweb.
Posted by Michel Vuijlsteke | November 21, 2007 9:25 PMMaybe this will explain some things:
http://www.ondernemeringent.be/2007/11/over-metatale.html
(in Dutch however...)
And listen to Michel, he's a smart guy (except when it comes to SF).
As for Veerle: the list is about Flemish blogs. And if you look at it closely, the only thing that makes Veerle's blog Flemish, is the fact that she lives here. She's hosted in the US, writes in English, has a US fanclub, links to US sites...
Posted by Bart | November 21, 2007 9:56 PMSorry but without any details on the algorithm we can only rely on the image of the company behind MetaTale. Which basically means they're the biggest influencers because we take their list seriously. Although I believe they used some objective figures to calculate the ratings, I'm sure there would be much discussion if the details were revealed.
Posted by Bart | November 22, 2007 12:09 AMBart, you have a point.
Posted by Bart | November 22, 2007 9:02 AMBut let's make this clear: we will *never* reveal the algorithm behind MetaTale. We might discuss the aspects that influence it, but we will never give out the actual formula.
Perhaps because they aren't linkwhores? :P
Posted by Stijn | November 22, 2007 9:38 AM