Here are the top 10 Nashville blogs as determined by blogelo users (all 10 of em) for the week ending 10/22/05 (so I'm a bit late with the post).

It's a bit early to put much stock in these rankings, after all Don's site, Atomic Fireballs, is somehow at the top of the list (he is also #1 in the curmudgeon category) and SGnTN didn't even make the cut.. sniff. But I thought it was interesting to see the results just the same.

Hopefully this coming week blogelo will have a little more activity and we'll start to see the list sort itself out.

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Posted by Casey at 1:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (1)

Tonight I added search and finished the popular duels buttons. I'm really happy with the way the latter turned out. blogelo is starting to feel a little more like a functional site and maybe it's time to start trying to popularize it.

Off the top of my head, the things I need to work on in the coming days are:

• The ability to add a site to the duel box by entering a url or name somewhere
• RSS feeds for top N tagged (or overall) sites
• Daily featured match up (first up digg vs slashdot!)
• Top users and adding users to search, which means allowing you to view another user's top sites, tags, recent duels, etc. Just like you can view on your own profile page
• Speaking of which, there is no way to edit your profile at the moment. That might be useful :)
• Lost password retrieval, other boring stuff like that
• Tag unions: some way to find a group of sites that share a set of tags and present an averaged rating of them
• List navigation: All the lists have a fixed range and offset right now.
• The only list that updates dynamically right now is the "top 20 sites" list on the main page
• Each site should be displaying it's own favicon. This works on locally, but not with Dreamhost. I'll have to figure another way to do this. Until then we're stuck with a boring globe icon for every site
• Popular duels on the tags page should be popular duels for the tag in question, not the overall popularity
• Make it less ugly for Internet Explorer users... curse them

That's all I can think of at the moment. Time for bed.

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Posted by Casey at 1:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

There's a story on digg today about Slashdot losing it's edge to digg.com lately. A link to an Alexa graph presenting the evidence accompanies the story.

While I personally have felt the same way for some months, the general population has to wait for the traffic to build before figuring out that digg.com is worthwhile. This is a bit of a catch-22 and exactly the sort of thing that I'm hoping blogelo will help eliminate.

Of course first I have to get the word out about blogelo (oh and maybe finish it) the old fashioned way first.

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Posted by Casey at 3:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It's really way to soon for me to take the wraps of of this, but I'm not really the patient type.

A little over a week ago my wife and I had a idea that we thought was pretty cool. Wouldn't it be cool if you could pit one blog against another, in a sort of blog death match, and based on the the winner of these matches assign rating that could be used to figure out what sites are good and which... um... not so much?

Well, that's pretty much what blogelo is. The hope is that lots of people will rate various sites, by way of comparison to others, and that a dynamic, living, breathing web ranking system that is useful will be born. Who knows how it will actually turn out. At the very least, hopefully we get enough folks using it so I can watch the purty colors as the rankings update.

Now there are several sites out there that show you the "rank" of web sites, but I wasn't really satisfied with any of them. These sites typically derive a rating based on the number of people linking to you. That's okay I guess, but new or niche sites will have a hard time working their way into that list. That and SGnTN maintains it's rank of 775,745 on technorati.

Anyway, pop over to blogelo and see what it's all about. Keep in mind that it is missing a bunch of needed features, but hopefully in the coming days I can get most all the missing bits added. Search being first among them. Be sure to look at the about page for an introduction to how blogelo works too.

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Posted by Casey at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

... and if not for IE it would be here by now.

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