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LARGE Expression Engine sites

Posted 27/01/2010 under blogging tools • research •

adding anything?

 

Web developers and Expression Engine (EE) experts, Hop Studios have researched what they believe to be the “largest” sites developed using EE as the content management system. The criteria for “largest” site was based on the monthly number of unique visitors + number of entries/comments + number of members/forum posts + awards/buzz (I really hate that word, “buzzzzz”), plus Hop Studios own good judgment.

This eventually led to a list of the 32 sites deemed “very large”, and who could fail but to be impressed with some of the figures they have unearthed. change.gov, Obamas presidential transition site leads the way, but if a confirmed ranking of 20,000,000 page visits per month for iLounge (an iPod & iPhonesite) is impressive then try the unconfirmed number of 31,000,000 pages per month for All K Pop (a Korean celebrity news site). Staggering.

Anyway, you can view the results and criteria here.


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Blogging - a book by Dr. Jill Walker Rettburg

Posted 30/12/2008 under research •

Dr Jill Walker Rettburg has been a research blogger since October 2000 and this year saw the release of her latest book which is titled simply, “Blogging”. There is no prize for guessing what this book is about, but if you are interested you can visit Amazon and search through the table of contents and some extracts as well.

image The book earns glowing reviews from such well known luminaries as Howard Rheingold, “Blogging is a landmark in social cyberspace studies and much more than that”, Axel Bruns, “Jill Walker′s Blogging is set to be a key text in its field” and danah boyd “Walker′s book brilliantly documents, analyzes, and situates blogging”.

I’ve just ordered a copy and I’m looking forward to reading it when it arrives.

 

 


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Sifry’s Alerts: State of The Blogosphere, March 2005, Part 2: Posting Volume

Posted 20/03/2005 under research •

Possibly a more interesting set of stat’s than in my previous posting as it relates to the number of postings that Technorati track each day. According to Sifry they are currently tracking about 500,00 posts per day or 5.8 post every second. This is compared to about 400,000 posts per day in October of 2004.

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The “event spikes” are particularly revealing.

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000299.html

 


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Sifry’s Alerts: State of The Blogosphere, March 2005, Part 1: Growth of Blogs

Posted 20/03/2005 under research •

In September of 2003 I noted in my thesis on blogging that Technorati, an independent weblog tracking service, were watching over 900,000 weblogs and tracking almost 78 million links. Now, according to this report from David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati, his company is tracking over 7.8 million weblogs and 937 million links. The Technorati data shows that the blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 months, something that it has done four times in the last 20 months.

According to Sifry, this growth rate appears set to continue with the significant growth of popular popular blogging and journaling tools like Google’s Blogger, SixApart’s LiveJournal, AOL Journals, the proliferation of software like WordPress, Expression Engine and Movable Type and the launch of MSN spaces.

I wonder if there is there an increase in the amount of “meaningful” dialogue that is commensurate with this phenomenal growth rate or is there simply an increase in the amount of babble that is repeated endlessly over and over (as I am doing in my reporting of Sifry’s log right now)??? Does this increase in the amount of “authors” and “points of view” just mean that it becomes increasingly more difficult to disseminate all of this data? I think so.

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000298.html


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Why I Hate Personal Weblogs

Posted 10/03/2004 under research •

That’s not me that hates personal Weblogs, but is the title of this essay by somebody who professes to hate them. This person makes some good points and the article is worth reading, and in parts is very witty, however if bad language offends you, don’t click on the link below. (Of course, by saying that every person who reads this weblog entry will automatically click on the link to discover what foul words have been written there!!).

Everybody is entitled to there opinion and the beauty of the Web is that every person can publish an opinion, as a Weblog perhaps, and who cares whether others agree with it or not.

Anyway, here’s a sample;

There are, I’m sure, as many reasons to keep weblogs as there are weblogs authors, however, some common threads surely exist between them. What could motivate someone to keep a public journal of their innermost thoughts? What possible reasons would someone have? Are some legitimately insightful or original, of course! Are most? No, probably not. So why? Well, I think most can be classified into one (or many) of several basic categories.

The Reverse Voyeur. This person suffers from a serious personal attention debt. I think this probably accounts for the majority of weblog authors. Not so much an exhibitionist, they aren’t making a spectacle of themselves in order to attract attention, no these people simply wish to be spied on intimately. They crave attention from someone else in their lives, they wish that someone would see them for who they really are and want to spend real time with them…

Go to the site here

 


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Blogoscope - a description

Posted 08/10/2003 under research •

Blogoscope - an instrument used to conduct a Blogoscopy.

Analogous to a microscope;
1. the light source, or the ontological underpinnings of a blogoscopy, illuminates the subject matter under investigation.
2. the objective lens, the primary lens that magnifies the subject matter so that it may be seen.
3. the ocular lens or eyepiece, re-magnifies the image formed by the objective lens and signifies the methodological approach to the study.
4. application of the focusing wheel, signifies the practical application of the methodologies employed in the blogoscopy.


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plasticbag.org | weblog | (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything…

Posted 11/09/2003 under research •

This is the sort of article that makes me think, “I wish I’d said that!” A very thought provoking and, especially for me, timely article on weblogging and social aspects of what I would refer to as authoring.

This follows on from Clay Shirkeys October 2002 article entitled “Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing”

Before the world of the weblog was the time of the homepage. Back before we knew any better, it was the homepage that was going to transform the world. Everyone was going to have them. They were going to democratise publishing. Together we thought we were going to change the world. But we didn’t..

After you have read the article you should read the follow up by Tom at bbCity.

go to article here


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Seblogging: Paper Draft for BlogTalk 2003

Posted 14/07/2003 under research •

Sebastian Fiedler has written an interesting paper on the pros and cons of personal Webpublishing tools as reflective conversational tools for self-organized learning.

I need to read it again before I make any further comments, but Sebastian does raise questions and discuss issues that I have been thinking about for some time.

I do believe that a personal weblog qualifies as a reflective space. Any time that a person writes about the events of the recent past, has to qualify as such.

If the Roman Emperor and stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius had been able to use our current technology, he quite likely would have been an ardent blogger and his ‘Meditations’ would have been speculated, discussed and disseminated on a daily basis. I wonder if that would have cuased them to be any more or less relevant today?

seblogging - paper


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blogging - writing or discourse - have I answered my own question?

Posted 18/06/2003 under research •

Having just finished the marking of my student?s on-line journals, I need a bit of self-reflection. Not that the task was an odious one mind you. Actually, in the main it was just the opposite.

It’s just that, some of the students embraced the weblogging idea with extremely reflective writing. Not only did they reflect upon the course itself, but some managed to find time to pursue other lines of thought and commentary as well.

Most students, who really ?got into it?, had some great discussions with themselves. The strange part is, in their feedback sheets, I now realise that in nearly every case I complimented them on these ?discussions’ without even thinking about it.

And I have been pondering as to whether weblogs are writing or a form of social discourse? Maybe I have inadvertently answered my own question.

It seems as though Barthes may have been right when he said that writing in a journal is not a text but a discourse. Mind you, that sets him at odds with his theory of the author being killed off in the writing. Doesn?t it?


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blogcount

Posted 21/05/2003 under research •

Blogcount asks:
How big is the blogosphere? What is its shape, color, true nature? Blogcount catalogs efforts to answer these questions. We collect and organize the best reports and analyses on this subject.

http://dijest.com/bc/


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