Following the conversations
posted in blogs, geography |I learned this evening from Alan Levine’s “Mindless, Time Wasting, Ego Chasing Vain Pursuit” post about bloginfluence.net. Yes, using this tool is a bit like “Googling” your own name, but I also think in a more positive than vain sense this is a very powerful tool for following the connected conversations in the blogosphere.
My own bloginfluence query this evening provided a wealth of other links besides Technorati (which I primarily use to find out who’s talking about and linking to things I’ve posted previously so I can read and comment on their ideas) to find folks who have linked to my posts recently.
My influence
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I still think ClustrMaps provides the most attention-getting visualization of global conversations related to blogs, but it measures blog hits, which are not broken apart between those reading and those commenting. It also does not include those writing about a person’s blog and cross-linking.
I would like to see a tool like Bloginfluence connected to geographic IP information, so conversations could be linked to from an interface like ClustrMaps. Sort of a clickable ClustrMap, which also includes crosslinks / pingbacks.
One of the most amazing things about the blogosphere is its organic nature. No single tool is comprehensively tracking all these conversations, and no one tool ever likely will. And that is OK! This sort of thing dramatizes the need we have to be dynamists rather than statists in our new media era. We need to be comfortable not being in control of the technology and the information, and empowered to be able to ride the wave of change into the 21st century.
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