Blogrolls, RIP
Duncan Riley laments the demise of the blogroll. Once upon a time in the land of the blogs, the blogroll reigned suprmeme. Everyone had a blogroll, and it was a great way to discover new and interesting blogs. But somewhere along the way blogrolls fell out of favor, and you don’t seem them much at all today. [...] Unlike other areas of blogging, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 9, 2008 11:26
Spencer Ackerman’s New Blog, Same as the Old Blog
Spencer Ackerman has been absorbed into the Think Progress collective and will henceforth by blogging at Attackerman. Update your blogrolls, feeds, and whatnot accordingly.Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 14, 2008 07:54
Ezra Klein Takes the Boeing
Ezra Klein's blog has been assimilated by The American Prospect. Redirect your RSS feeds and blogrolls accordingly.Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 10, 2007 10:13
Respect My Authoritay
The folks at Technorati quietly implemented a change to their metrics that has ignited quite a buzz in the blogosphere. Dorion Carroll explains: On Fri. May 4th, we updated Technorati.com to include the Technorati Authority for blogs listed on the Blog page and in search results. This update changed the earlier references of "N blogs link here" and "X ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 7, 2007 12:26
Blog Assimilation: Resistance is Futile
Dave Schuler, who occasionally contributes here and at Dean's World in addition to maintaining his own site, laments a trend he's seeing among his favorite blogs: Brilliant bloggers who posted once a day, maybe two or three times a week, are linking arms as associate bloggers on blogs with larger readerships. They’re still posting once a day, maybe two or three ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 4, 2007 13:08
Professor Bainbridge Relaunch
Steve Bainbridge has made his return to the blogosphere with a new design and three blogs instead of two: Professor Bainbridge's Business Associations Blog This is my professional blog, which serves as an extension of my academic scholarship. The subjects about which I post here - law, business, and economics - will be of interest to lawyers, judges, law students, and legal ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 26, 2006 08:14
Alphabetical Tyranny
Alex Tabarrok points to a new study showing that, "Faculty members in top [economics] departments with surnames beginning with letters earlier in the alphabet are substantially more likely to be tenured, be fellows of the Econometrics Society, and even win Nobel prizes." This is because, "In economics there is a norm that authors are listed alphabetically" and "Citation counts, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 14, 2006 10:54
Fixing the Ecosystem
Jay at Accidental Verbosity has some good ideas that might make Bear's goals for fixing the Ecosystem easier and more achievable. Two of them, purging non-blogs and spam blogs from the list, are obvious but difficult. Bear has indeed pruned tons of them including, finally, the Drudge Report (which I personally added as a joke over two years ago), but ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 3, 2005 08:36
Ecosytem and the Value of Links
N.Z. Bear asked for my 2 cents' worth on an question he posted a couple days ago: [S]hould a link from a blogger who has hundreds or even thousands of links to anyone and everyone on their page be worth exactly the same as a link from a more reserved blogger who only has a small number of outbound links? In the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 25, 2005 08:45
