Just released version 0.2 of BlogCompare, which adds some more goodies for helping to compare Technorati stats between blogs. These are the changes and additions:

• added minimum source stats with a default of 10 incoming sources - this can be adjusted back to zero in the dropdown menu or up to 2,500+
• added comparison checkboxes - easily compare any group of blogger stats in the database by checking the box next to their name
• colorized and fontified - for easier readability and to make it look a little nicer. Includes the logo shown above with the caption “forever beta” — which follows the current trend.
• added blogcompare category to MakeYouGoHmm - for changelog and instructional posts like this one. Those interested can subscribe to the RSS feed for only this category, just like any other category here (shown as #7 in picture below)

Screenshots and Examples
Let’s say I wanted to compare the blogs stats from some well known bloggers like Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Chris Pirillo and Doc Searls.

Navigate to the BlogCompare homepage. When you first arrive you’ll see a v0.2 screen that looks like this (minus all the red numbers and arrows, of course):

Here are the important numbers explained (1-6):
1 - Sort by field. There are several choices to sort the data by here including blogger name alphabetically (A-Z), reverse alphabetically (Z-A), number of *Inbound Links by the lowest number of links (zero) to highest (low->high) and highest to lowest (high->low), *Inbound Sources by low to high and high to low, *Technorati Cosmos rating by lowest (best) to highest (worst) and highest to lowest and finally a custom BlogCompare quality score which is based in v0.2 on the ratio of links to blogs. A perfect ratio would be 100% which would 1:1 ratio of sources to links. Therefore a blog with lots of links from a lower number of sources would have a lower quality ratio. Note: ‘quality’ doesn’t have anything to do with how good or bad a blog’s content actually is or not.

* these figures come via the Technorati API

2 - List field. The list field provides four choices: Top 500, A-List, B-List, C-List. The A,B,C lists are pulled from Blogebrity’s TheList OPML files and are not chosen by me. Anybody who adds their own blog through BlogCompare, will go on the ‘o’ther list. The ‘o’ther list is sorted within the Top 500 list. In fact when you first visit, currenly there is 1 ‘o’ther blogger listed, 3 C-List bloggers, 4 B-List bloggers and only 1 A-List blogger in the Top 10 with sort by Quality Rank high->low. So it is quite possible to make the default top 10 as an add-in with a relatively small number of sources and links. In this blogger’s case, there was 35 links from 34 sources for a Quality Rank of 94.2857%. #11 is also an ‘o’ther link, added by the blogger.
3 - Minimum Sources. This was added in v0.2 to add some sort of minimum sources threshold to the default Top 500 list. Users can still sort by 0 (the v0.1 default) which means that 0 links / 0 sources can still be viewed. There are options for 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000 and 2500+ sources. By using this option you can limit the list considerably.
4 - View List submit button. Once you’ve selected your comparison or view choices, press this button to run the query.
5 - The Database (Top 500). This section will change based on the dropdown menu choices made. For the least amount of results you could set: quality rank high->low, list: A-List, Minimum Sources: 2500+ and you’d only see 27 of the A-Listers make the cut (as of this writing, anyway).
6 - Comparison area. This is where bloggers you choose by checking the boxes will appear. You can choose any bloggers on the list, so find the ones you want to compare, check the boxes, and then press the View list button and you’ll see these bloggers compared in this area sorted and ranked by the criteria chosen.

Search for the aforementioned bloggers using the Find command in Internet Explorer and Firefox (CTRL + F). Just enter in the last name of all the bloggers mentioned: Scoble, Winer, Pirillo, and Searls.

Now press the “View list” button and look in the Comparisons section (colored cyan in the center) to see the bloggers you’ve chosen stats ranked. You’ll note that the boxes are checked by default in the comparison section so you only need to change the dropdown menus and click “View list” to resort/rank based on the new criteria.

Voila! That’s the easy three step BlogCompare process. If you add your own blog (shown as #8 in the red numbered screenshot) it should appear in the Newly added area just below the Comparisons and then you can compare. You must appear in Technorati and have at Technorati API key (free) to be added to the database. It’s all automated at this point, but if it is abused a moderation queue can easily be added.

If you want to learn more about this experimental tool, then see the original post: Resorting and reordering the Blogebrity A-B-C blogger list

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