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This blog has been created for the class of "Public Journalism in the Digital Age" taught by Dr. Jinsun Lee in the Spring semester of 2011 at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. Each student will develop his/her own blog and network with bloggers.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Mark Owens Simpson In Class Writing 2/25/10

The ways in which technorati.com and digg.com evaluate blogs are considerably different. Digg.com relies on users directly rating blogs by clicking on the "digg" icon, representing that the reader approves of a certain blog or an individual post of that same blog. Technorati.com, however, uses a different approach. Depending on the most popular subjects being discussed in the blogosphere, and how specific blogs relate to those same subjects, technorati rates a blogs popularity. The blog rating site also incorporates the activity that an individual blog receives along with how often the information is updated on it. Technorati offers a listing of the top five "risers" and "fallers" based on the same criteria.

On Digg, the top 5 "Offbeat" blogs are:
1) 6 Soldiers Who Survived That Would Kill a Terminator
2)Sex Poll: Women Want Sex More Than You Think
3) Top 5 Ways to Not Be Annoying on Twitter

On Technorati, the top 5 "Political" blogs include:
1) The Huffington Post
2) Think Progress
3) The Corner on National

Determining the overall quality of the both top 3 blogs, I came to the conclusion that Technorati seemed to have more authority in blogs as a whole, whereas Digg may be able to decipher the most interesting individual posts, which users rate as good. Although I think the Technorati top blogs were appropriately rated, I believe that Digg.com's rating system is more effective, as it is more user oriented.

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