The A-list is dead! Long live the A-list! Long live the — ! … ahem.
Guy “I can’t believe somewhat someone bought Truemors” Kawasaki has added yet another subdomain to his endless list of Alltop (what popURLs would be if someone decided to aggregate feeds of all kinds) categories, and this one is the top 100 (or so) “friendsters” on Friendfeed. Its called Frienderati.
As Erick Schonfeld notes, we don’t really know how the top 100 (or so) were put together, but it may have to do with the number of subscribed “friends”, or some other metric. I suspect that it must be this, because *I* am on that list, and by any other meaningful metric, there is nothing about my profile on Friendfeed that is really remarkable, save that I was kind of around when the buzz started, so I have a few people following me.
(in fact, according to this list, there are probably a few bunch that are way ahead of me in terms of numbers)
This is just a round about way of saying that if *I* am on that list, one of the problems with the list is that it doesn’t really measure “interest” or “activity” or “engagement”. I’ve barely put a comment down on Twitter or Friendfeed for months. That hardly qualifies to me to be top 100 in anything these days.
Lists do have a role in the blogosphere (and the internets at large), there’s no doubt about that (or their popularity for that matter — please see Cracked.com, which seems to pay the rent exclusively with lists submitted to Digg) … but I think in all cases, its important to know how these lists are compiled.
In the vast majority of cases, its implicit and understood. in this case, however, I think it’d be interesting to see Frienderati show what kind of factors they’re using in compiling this list. Engagement *should* be high on the list, as an implicit function of how “interesting” or “important” someone is. I’m not sure, however, if it really is, and perhaps, it should be.
(addendum: should I be taken off? I’m conflicted! My id says “hell no! take what you can get, and run for the border!” and my super ego, of course, is slapping the hell out of my id as a result)
July 14th, 2008 at 12:28 pm | Permalink
“I can’t believe somewhat bought Truemors”
You mean “someone” I think. Frienderati feeds that aren’t refreshed within 28 days automatically fall off. Presumably, you may not post often, but what you post is important.
Or, I’d be happy to take you off Frienderati if you being on there offends you.
Guy
July 14th, 2008 at 12:37 pm | Permalink
@Guy — thanks.
If its all the same, however, I’d be interested to know in how you figure what’s “important” in putting together that list.
As for being taken off, see the addendum above. I’ll get back to you on that. ;)
July 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pm | Permalink
[...] generated; but one thing’s for sure — it wasn’t based on how active they are. Tony Hung doesn’t get it [...]
July 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pm | Permalink
[...] the problem Sean and I (and many other bloggers found): most of these folks are largely inactive on the service. As such, we think that [...]
July 17th, 2008 at 1:18 am | Permalink
[...] the problem Sean and I (and many other bloggers found): most of these folks are largely inactive on the service. As such, we think that [...]
January 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pm | Permalink
[...] by themiesha2008-12-25 - Do Top 100 Websites Actually Use .Mobi? saved by Richarxxxxx2008-12-25 - The Problem With Frienderati saved by SwiftandFlash2008-12-22 - Wordpress Popurls Clone saved by ponyisland2008-12-22 - 30 Day [...]