21 julho 2003

VITAMEDIAS
Google hogged by blogs: The self-obsessed nature of many blogs, the incestuous relationships between them, the frenetic rate at which they are updated, and their obsessive use of links, have distorted the snapshots of the web that Google gives us. Blog culture has made links and idle comment into ends in themselves, irrespective of the merit or relevance of the content being linked to or commented upon. It is this failing of blogs, not any failing of [Google's] PageRank, that has meant that the assumptions which made PageRank work so effectively are no longer tenable.
Homage to Blogalonia: The blogger assumes his every spittle is of the greatest import, for why else share the daily meanderings of his mind? In fairness it is a question we should ask Orwell. Does the blogger's rose-buying adventure, even if it is George Orwell doing the buying and beforehand the sniffing, merit our attention? [acesso pago]
Bloggers Select The 20 Greatest Figures In American History