The Top 30 VoIP Blogs According to Technorati

Filed under: Uncategorized - 31 Aug 2006 12:37

Luca took the whole "Top 30 VoIP Blogs" discussion and instead of making it subjective, put the question of ranking to Technorati. Technorati Ranking relates to the number of sources that point to a particular weblog relative to other weblogs. The more sources referencing a weblog, the higher the Technorati ranking. This is similar to how Google ranks pages in their search engine and is believed to be a fairly objective measure.

I am gratified to be on this list, along with the nice comments Luca made about me as a writer. I find it a strange coincidence that I showed up as #19 on both the Smith and the Technorati list. Maybe my Technorati ranking would be boosted if I could get the 13 or so blogs Technorati says are still linking to blog.phoneboy.com to change to www.phoneboy.com, or somehow convince Technorati to combine the rankings for both sites.

For me, there were three surprises: Andy wasn't in the Top 5, Ken Camp's Digital Common Sense and Realtime-VoIP blogs rank in the top 20, and the presence of several blogs I never heard of. I'm not surprised that Ted Wallingford's Signal to Noise blog is lower on the list, since he started blogging under a new URL recently. It takes several months to (re)establish your blog and I fully expect his blog will raise in ranking over the next few months.

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as a measure. I was a bit surprised to find that both my personal Digital Common Sense blog and the Realtime VoIP Conversation blog rank in the top 20. There are some obvious oversights, but that’s to be expected in some ways. Phoneboy did a great job of identifying why, for example, Technorati rankings for his site and Ted Wallinford’s might be skewed a bit. Beyond that, rankings are flawed at best. Technorati ranks on keywords, so you
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The List and Counter List
Garrett’s is totally subjective, while Lucca used the number of posts from Technorati.

What’s flawed with that? A bit. Om’s post are not all VOIP, nor are Alecs, nor Jeff Pulver so unless you discount that percentage it will skew the numbers.

As for any rivalry, let me equivocally state that without any of you all I would be just another blogger. You all give me purpose and direction, especially OM who I call “coach” from time to time. He’s the journalist here, lest us not forget that. So is Rich T, Greg G, Tom K. Some of us, Ted, Dameon, Alec, Ken are accidental journalists and I’m the recovering PR person who just likes to be able to be able to tell it like it is, even to clients, which is why I am so happy so many of you help keep me, and them in line…..

As for rankings, like I said, the San Diego TMC event will be my buying, or supplying wine at one very cool dinner for the Bloggers and some select friends and locals…
Comment by Anonymous

VoIP is not only VoIP
As long as we consider VoIP a collection of technologies that enable users to communicate in a multi-media environment, every technology gadget that we can produce (or even imagine!) is to be considered “matter of investigation”. Mobile phones, PDAs, PCs, iPods, USB drives -everything is portable, connectable, with earphones and a mic can be a VoIP-related gadget.
That’s why I think VoIP blogs that talk only about VoIP “as is” are close to be just… nonsense.
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