Comments on: Blog analysis

By: Joerg Kurt Wegner

Joerg Kurt Wegner — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:44:50 +0000

@John: I took the genderanalyzer test and now I know that I am to 60% a woman. Mmmhhh, I got to talk to my wife about this.

By: walt

walt — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:35:33 +0000

As I understand it (which ain’t a whole lot), Technorati’s “authority” represents the number of blogs with links in the past six months (I keep saying “90 days,” which is wrong), while the link count is the number of posts within the past 90 days–and, I think, blogrolls can influence both counts, depending on how the results are gathered (now there’s a handwave for you). (At least I know I see links where my blog only shows up in the blogroll.)

But that’s just my understanding, and may not have much to do with what’s actually going on.

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:06:25 +0000

Ah… maybe it has a “I don’t want boy germs” function built into the algorithm and my obvious maleness makes me slip further down the scale

As an aside, I get annoyed with Technorati rankings because it tends not to account for repeat links from blogs. So, none of Michael Stephen’s links to my blog have shown up for over a year, although anyone who links to me who never has done so before is counted. With the small number of llibblogs out there, one would think that after a couple of years there were no new libblogs to link to me so my T ranking would plummet…

By: walt

walt — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:39:19 +0000

Kathryn: The kind of numbers behind that value rating are way beyond me. Based on Google Page Rank and Technorati, your blog should be worth more: Same GPR (5), but you have a Technorati authority of 96 (which should mean 96 blogs have linked to yours in the last 90 days) while mine is a lowly 50.

On the other hand, popuri.us shows me as having more Google links and Yahoo links. (The latter figure may be meaningful; the former almost certainly isn’t.)

The site says it uses Technorati’s API. You should show more value. So, no, I have no idea what’s going on.

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:59:05 +0000

Um… Walt…it’s really, really embarrassing to admit, but my blog comes out as worth the same bizarre value as yours… $28227 (but I have to use the URL http://librariansmatter.com/blog for it to pick up anything). You’re the guy with the numbers, can you pick up any reason *why* we would come out so similar???

BTW – According to Gendalyser I’m also 81% male . I’ve tested the same on an analysis of my twitter stream too.

By: walt

walt — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:15:17 +0000

Hmm. Still ESTP. Guess I need to write some deeply philosophical, antisocial, introverted posts. But that would be gaming…

So maybe I have a blog persona that’s [becoming] more outgoing than my real-world persona? Possible.

By: John Dupuis

John Dupuis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:26:50 +0000

I checked again today and it’s still INTP. I’ll be putting weekly tests at the end of my Friday Fun posts for the next few weeks to see what happens. Btw, Wayne, the AL is ISTP so I guess he/she/they can’t be you

By: walt

walt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:43:08 +0000

Mattias: If I do a “small sample over time” thing–which depends on whether John and Dorothea send reports–it will be just that: An amusing anecdote.

I really wasn’t planning to add this facet to the liblog analysis I do already: it’s just not central to anything else I’m doing. If I hadn’t been so startled by what I regard as an implausible move from Introvert (which I am) to Extrovert (which I’m not) based on the addition of three or four posts, I wouldn’t have commented as I did.

Maybe someone else would take this up as an actual study; I already have more potential things than I have time or energy for. Sorry.

By: Mattias Ã–stmar

Mattias Ã–stmar — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:43:31 +0000

Dorothea Salo: IÂ´ve spent an awful lot of time (INTP/INTJ myself…) training a simple classifyer with examples based on books and Jon KÃ¥gstrÃ¶m (INTJ) have developed his classifier over and over again to get these results. I thinki itÂ´s wise not to over-interpret the results from the Typealyzer, since, as Walt says, it needs much data over time to se the “normal” type preferences. And I personally believe that people might use their blogs as a way of extraverting a certain persona rather than how “they” are. But IÂ´m very exited about the results you guys get!!

@walt: maybe we could provide you with an easier and quicker way to do such tests (we would love to get help to evaluate and improve the system) – weÂ´re thinking about an API (needs som programming skills), a box for you to put in your RSS-feed to automatically analyze and track your own or others blog posts and weÂ´re also developing a reserach tool wich uses blog aggregators such as http://www.twingly.com to let people and companies analyse a lot of posts at the same time. What would be helpful for you?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:25:51 +0000

This is eerie. Mine came out INTP as well, which is also my M-B type. It’s at a high school level, but unfortunately only worth $14,678.04. I would have guessed $14,678.12, so that’s pretty close to my own calculation.