Nolan says Winer is “stingy” with links — is he? |
Speaking of Dave Winer (#22 Dave, so keep reading!) political blogger Chris Nolan recently posted that Dave is stingy with the links. Before I could disagree or agree with that on any sort of scientific basis, and not emotional basis, I decided to do a little research.
One of the neat things about this blog now being stored in a database is that I can much, much, much more quickly and easily run queries to see in how many different posts I’ve used certain words or links.
For example: “Dave Winer” as well as scripting.com queried against the 1,578 blog entries revealed 21 blog entries where Dave Winer was mentioned and 21 times scripting.com was linked. The word “Winer” by itself was used 4 more times for a total of 25. How many times has scripting.com linked to me?
Goose egg. Zero. Zilch. Nadda.
What about Scoble? I’ve mentioned him in 57 different blog posts, counting this one. He’s linked to me at least a dozen times in his link blog and a couple of times in his regular blog (thank you, Robert!). Once was for my opinion on Mark Jen, and the other time was Tablet PC related. Scoble isn’t stingy. He sends good traffic too when you get listed on his main page and the linkblog traffic isn’t too shabby either.
Tyme who recently used me as a bad example over our default checkbox experiment? I’ve linked to her 3 times. I didn’t realize Tyme was female until this recent exchange when someone in the comments said “she” — so that tells you how much I pay attention to the sex of a blogger.
“Chris Nolan” I’ve mentioned 2 times now and linked it this time. How many times has Nolan linked to MakeYouGoHmm? As best as I can tell, zero. Coincidentally the last time I mentioned her it was in reference to her arguing with Dave at Bloggercon III. The lady is feisty, it seems.
Chris Pirillo, another geek business owner that I admire: 22 times. His lockergnome publication has linked various entries here several times (thanks to the authors who did that, BTW) and when I met him for the first time he seemed excited and recognized me as being from this blog, but he’s never linked to this blog from chris.pirillo.com to my knowledge. I’m sure he’ll get around to that someday when I do something worthwhile or interesting. It’s cool that he’s in the same neck of the woods.
Heck, this blog has been slashdotted but not yet had Winer link to this blog. I’ve even met Dave in person at the local Seattle blogger meetup but apparently not even a face to face meeting could generate the holy grail of scripting.com links. Dave, when you going to spread some of that warm scripting.com link love this direction? Perhaps once I’ve written about him in a 100 or more entries I’ll make the grade. Is the content here that uninteresting and untimely? Can’t be that …
For example, Dave, you just mentioned StumbleUpon, but we’ve talked about it here 10 times with the first time on January 18, 2004. I’ve demoed it at a few local blogger meetups and I even showed it to Chris Pirillo in the hallway at Northern Voice. Furl was another thing Dave mentioned discovering recently. I’ve only posted about that 3 times but I’ve been using that over a year too.
What about Skype? All these folks talking about Skype today, but Stuart Henshall and I were talking about it way backwhen there less than 100k downloads in September of 2003. How many blog entries have had Skype mentioned? 60 times!
Yup, databases are mighty useful and informative.
I do realize that some of the MakeYouGoHmm website (blog) pages are loading slower than it was when it was static and that’s on the to-do list to fix all those queries, most of which I think are excessive. I’ve cut it down from the 24 it was running every time the front page was loading to 13, but that’s still too many queries. 99% of the front page can be cached and require zero database queries, which is on the to-do list, so please bear with us if the pages take a little extra long to load over the next week or two while we right the ship.
Thank you for your patience and for reading!
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Comment by Chris Pirillo — March 17, 2005 @ 7:24 pm PST
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, (wow, see it worked. You made me do that).
Dave Winer has linked to me twice from his main page at scripting.com. I think both times because I’d sent him an email with a link in it. He linked to this post http://scottkoon.org/archives/2004/09/13/survival-tips-for-dave-winer-while-in-seattle/ and this post http://scottkoon.org/archives/2004/07/19/eating-in-santa-fe/. Both had to deal directly with what he was doing at the time. I don’t know if that’s a formula for getting him to link to you, but I’d say if you are doing this to get the “A-list bloggers” to link to you, you’re doing this for the wrong reasons.
http://scottkoon.org/archives/2005/03/13/blogging-for-fun-or-profit/
Here’s to hoping all the links don’t get this comment marked as spam.
Comment by Scott — March 18, 2005 @ 3:06 pm PST
Hi Scott - yeah, you were flagged, ya spammer! j/k
Dave seems like an analytical guy and I’m guessing after meeting him that he’d get a chuckle out of my little analysis instead of taking anything I said personally or read too much into this. I don’t know how often he reads this blog but he has left comments here in the past.
If he does stop by, he shouldn’t take anything personally that I said above anyway. I really don’t want him linking to this blog unless we say or do something he finds interesting and without any pressure wants to share this with his readership.
Ms. Nolan, who IMO seems to care so little about her readers point of view that she doesn’t even enable comments or trackbacks, should feel similarly. Though I didn’t specifically spotlight the hypocrisy of that accusation, it’s there at the surface.
I am confident that there will come a day when we do or say something either here or one of our other websites that Dave finds worthwhile enough to acknowledge with a link. If not, then no biggie
It won’t change if I link to things he does or says. Or any other blogger for that matter.
I’m primarily looking for good content — news, opinions, links, tools, tips, etc — the source really doesn’t make that much of a difference to me.
Have a nice weekend
Comment by TDavid — March 18, 2005 @ 8:27 pm PST