Medblogformule toegepast op Engelstalige medblogs
Geplaatst door: Jan Martens in MedBlogNL, MedblogEN | Het artikel is in totaal 7518 x gelezen, 1 x vandaag
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Update: The official rankings for August are published! At MedblogEN you can find the most recent list.
Zoals beloofd heb ik de formule die ik gebruik voor de MedblogNL top 25 toegepast op Engelstalige medblogs. Onderstaande lijst is het resultaat na een dag. Pas over een aantal dagen kun je met meer zekerheid zeggen hoe de lijst er precies uit zal zien, maar ik wil jullie het eerste resultaat niet onthouden. Ik heb de medblogs gebruikt die ook vermeld worden bij de Healthcare 100. Dat maakt het mogelijk om de lijsten te vergelijken. Ik zal hier de top 100 laten zien.
Update in English
I got the request to translate the algorithm for determining the rank of medblogs. In table at the bottom of this article you can see how the “value” of a medblog is determined. For the moment I use eight parameters i.e: the number of published articles, the number of comments, the mean Google pagerank of the homepage, the mean Technorati-rank, -inblog and inlink numbers. And finally I use the mean number of subscription to Feedburner (the circulation) and the mean hits of Feedburner.
These parameters lead to the algorithm: value = (# articles / 10) + (# comments / 20) + (pagerank / 2) + (100000 / technorati rank) + ( technorati inlink / 500) + ( technorati inblog / 500) + (feedburner circulation /200) + (feedburner hits /1000). So a medblog gets 1 point for every 10 articles, 1 point for every 20 comments, etc. I chose the numbers (10,20,2,100000, 500,500, 200,1000) in such a way that it becomes a dynamic ranking system (or at least that is what I hope it will become). So I still have to experiment with the parameters numbers but for now I will keep them fixed.
If you have suggestions or improvements please let me know. To construct the list below I used the medblogs from the Healthcare 100. Since I just started to collect the data, the result below are just an indication. I did not plan to construct the English-written-medblog-list on a regular basis, but … if I get a lot I requests to do so, I will consider it.
For the english readers : I also updated the about medblog.nl section.
Update 2
U kunt de OPML van de Healthcare 100 lijst downloaden.
You can download the Healthcare 100 OPML.
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31 juli 2007 om 15:23
Could you translate please the type of the algorithm? I’m curious.
Thank you!
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?31 juli 2007 om 16:00
@ Berci:
Thanks for the interest.
In table at the bottom of this article you can see how the “value” of a medblog is determined. For the moment I use eight parameters i.e: the number of published articles, the number of comments, the mean Google pagerank of the homepage, the mean Technorati-rank, -inblog and inlink numbers. And finally I use the mean number of subscription to Feedburner (the circulation) and the mean hits of Feedburner. The algorithm is: value = (# articles / 10) + (# comments / 20) + (pagerank / 2) + (100000 / technorati rank) + ( technorati inlink / 500) + ( technorati inblog / 500) + (feedburner circulation /200) + (feedburner hits /1000). So a medblog gets 1 point for every 10 articles, 1 point for every 20 comments, etc. I chose the numbers in such a way that it becomes a dynamic ranking system (or at least that is what I hope it will become). So I still have to experiment with the parameters but for now I will keep them fixed. If you have suggestions or improvements please let me know. To construct the list below I used the medblogs from the Healthcare 100. Since I just started to collect the data, the result below are just an indication.
I also added this text to the original article.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?31 juli 2007 om 17:33
Thank you for the fast reaction! I think this algorithm is much more accurate and comprehensive than that of the eDrug site. I’m going to write a post about it.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?31 juli 2007 om 17:37
@Berci: Thanks for the compliment. Now you make me curious. Please let me know when you have published your article.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?31 juli 2007 om 19:41
Mooi werk weer Jan! Opvallend veel verschillende invalshoeken binnen de medische blogs. Mooi overzicht.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?1 augustus 2007 om 11:35
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Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?1 augustus 2007 om 18:10
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Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?1 augustus 2007 om 18:11
Here is the promised article: http://scienceroll.com/2007/08.....cal-blogs/
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?1 augustus 2007 om 18:20
Thanks.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?1 augustus 2007 om 18:38
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Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?3 augustus 2007 om 03:48
How do you factor in medical/health blogs that do not have comments?
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?3 augustus 2007 om 09:05
@ SSandy: If you take a look at the algorithm [value = (# articles / 10) + (# comments / 20) + (pagerank / 2) + (100000 / technorati rank) + ( technorati inlink / 500) + ( technorati inblog / 500) + (feedburner circulation /200) + (feedburner hits /1000)] you see that a medblog obtains 1 point for every 20 comments. Thus, if a medblog does not facilitate comments it doesn’t get any points for the comment part.
In my opinion comments are an important part of the definition of a weblog. That is why I included them in the algorithm. I use the comment rss-feed to obtain information about the number of comments. A big disadvantage is that a lot of website do not add a link to the comment rss-feed in their header. So I have to check the website manually to check whether they have a comment-feed. I am busy checking all the international website on comment-feeds. If someone has a solution for this, please mail me at jan @ medblog.nl.
I have to admit that I did not add the comment rss-feed to my header yet :-(.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?3 augustus 2007 om 14:30
Yes, I noticed that blogs without comments are penalized, which is something I disagree with as not all professoinal medical writers can afford to spend full-time moderating comments and thus don’t have them. Many of these blogs are ones that are raising the bar for quality of content, as well. That should not detract from the popularity or ranking of their blog, if that is really what you are trying to determine in your algorithm. Just a thought to consider. Thanks!
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?3 augustus 2007 om 15:09
Thanks for your response.
Well I partly agree with you. I think that interaction with your readers is a good thing. Even if you are very busy you should have some time to moderate your comments. With respect to the time-consuming activities of medical professionals I found the following interesting comments from David Rothman.
But … I agree with you that it is unfair to give the comments too many influence. At the end of this month I will be able to determine the influence of the comments on the ranking of a medblog. If this influence is too big I will decrease it by adjusting the numbers in front of the parameters. The same point holds for the articles. If a medblog decides to publish a lot of advertorials it will gain points with “low”-quality content. It will be hard to get rid of these advertorials automatically. The current algorithm puts a lot of emphasis on the Technorati ranking. Again, I will consider this at the end of the month when I will be able to determine the influence of the individual parameters on the overall ranking.
It is my hope that by using the above defined parameters I will be able to create an overall idea about the quality of a site. Still it is very hard to define the quality of a medblog. Maybe I will add an opinion panel to the ranking, but I do not have the right infrastructure yet.
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