Blogdex was an online resource for understanding hot topics of discussion in the
blogosphereThe blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions....
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The site offered a time-weighted list of links to online content cited by more than one monitored
blogA blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order...
in the recent past. Each link received a score based both on the number of different blogs citing it and the recency of those citings; the list thus typically features both popular oddities of the day as well as informative and/or controversial source material for current topics of public debate.
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Blogdex was an online resource for understanding hot topics of discussion in the
blogosphereThe blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions....
.
The site offered a time-weighted list of links to online content cited by more than one monitored
blogA blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order...
in the recent past. Each link received a score based both on the number of different blogs citing it and the recency of those citings; the list thus typically features both popular oddities of the day as well as informative and/or controversial source material for current topics of public debate. Despite its explicit focus on blogs, it can be thought of as the original
memetrackerA memetracker is a tool for studying the migration of memes across a group of people. The term is typically used to describe websites that either:#analyze blog posts to determine what web pages are being discussed or cited most often on the World Wide Web, or...
, and the inspiration for later commercial sites such as
tailrank.comTailrank.com was a site that provided a feed of content on the World Wide Web that's being discussed across the blogosphere. The site continuously scanned blogs that had been registered with it, and composed an index of "top stories" that had been cited by the various blogs it had scanned.The focus...
,
Digg.comDigg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying...
, and other
social mediaSocial media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media supports the human need for social interaction, using Internet- and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues into...
sites.
As the previous owner of the domains blogdex.com, blogdex.net and blogdex.org,
Jimmy WalesJimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia. •...
offered the domains to
MITThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research...
free of charge for use in this project. Blogdex then migrated from the original blogdex.media.mit.edu location to blogdex.net.
Blogdex was created to facilitate the academic research of site creator Cameron Marlow as a
Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated PhD , for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", or alternatively, DPhil, for the equivalent , is an advanced academic degree awarded by universities...
student at MIT. He now works for
FacebookFacebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and...
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Blogdex has been offline since May 2006.
External links
- http://www.blogdex.com/ (defunct)
- "Tracking Bloggers With Blogdex" Wired
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since March 1993, that reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
, Jul, 30, 2001