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Sneak Preview ranking english written medblogs
Geplaatst door: Jan Martens in MedblogEN, english | Het artikel is in totaal 19342 x gelezen, 3 x vandaag
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The official rankings for August are published!
My algorithm for ranking english written medblogs did get some attention. Some comments were postive, others more neutral. Other medbloggers were more critical of the used algorithm. As I pointed out it was not my intention to publish this ranking every month, but since it seems to fulfill a need I decided to publish this list every month. For now I publish the preliminary result for August. This list contains 356 medblogs. I did not change the original algorithm, but David Rothman’s comments make sense. So I am looking into changing the algorithm. The preliminary list is published below. The official list will be published on the MedblogEN-page.
1-15 August 2007
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15 augustus 2007 om 22:40
Nice list! Don’t you plan to create nice widgets for the blogs?
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?16 augustus 2007 om 07:50
I already created a widget for the Dutch list, as you can see in the right corner of this website. I can also make one for the english-written list. So send me a mail at jan @ medblog.nl if you want such a widget for your site. Then I will mail you the code.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?20 augustus 2007 om 04:00
[...] Ranking of english-written medblogs (Medgadget nl). [...]
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?20 augustus 2007 om 22:21
Hey!!! You overlooked one of the oldest on the web – http://www.sciencebase.com/sci.....ry/health/
db
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?21 augustus 2007 om 10:23
Hi David,
I added your blog to my list. Do you have by any chance have a separate rss for your health related articles?
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?22 augustus 2007 om 00:58
[...] Sneak Preview ranking english written medblogs: a nice list of medical blogs based on the number of comments, posts, feed readers, incoming links. You can see a nice widget about it in my sidebar. Scienceroll’s rank is 14 out of the 356. [...]
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?22 augustus 2007 om 04:58
I don’t know what your criteria for listing are, but if you would like to add my specialized web Journal to your list, be my guest.
My web Journal highlights the 30 years I spent as an ophthalmic industry consultant, and the 25 years spent consulting and writing about medical lasers and their applications.
More recently, I have presented the latest information about Avastin and Lucentis for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration. When people search for info on these two drugs, my web Journal usually appears among the top five sources for information.
For over 20 years, I wrote “technical update” columns for Ocular Surgery News, Medical Laser Report and other publications. I have recently posted a list of my columns, articles and reports on my web site.
Thanks for your consideration.
Irv Arons
Irv Arons’ Journal
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?22 augustus 2007 om 08:52
Irv, I have added your weblog to the list. Your ranking will be available after the next update. You can also display your ranking with a nice blogger widget. Let me know if you want to use this.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?24 augustus 2007 om 00:17
[...] Ost writes and runs http://www.healthbolt.net (the #1 health blog on the web (as per MedGadget) and edits and contributes to http://www.marksdailyapple.com (#38 of the top 100 health [...]
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?24 augustus 2007 om 21:47
Does my blog has a chance in this list?
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?25 augustus 2007 om 15:25
[...] “behind-the-scenes” interviews. The seventh blogger in this series is Sara Ost who runs the #1 health blog on the web, [...]
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?25 augustus 2007 om 16:08
Gyanish, I have added your blog to the list. Your blog should appear in the list after the next update.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?25 augustus 2007 om 23:33 (subscribed to comments)
Cool list. Is there any chance that you can include my 10 health blogs into your list?
I could email you the RSS and links if you want!
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?26 augustus 2007 om 06:10
Here’s something that might help with your [impressive] undertaking. A very good example of the “Authority/Accuracy” David Rothman was talking about: Well Woman Blog is ranked #62 while The Blog That Ate Manhattan is #77. The problem? Here’s an actual line from a WWB post: “A variety of [birth control] pills are available as well as injections and patches. None have proven safe for a woman to use.”
That last statement alone should disqualify WWB from inclusion in any medblogger ranking. Of course, the key question is how do you design an algorithm capable of distinguishing authoritative content from nonsense?
I look forward to the new algorithm.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?26 augustus 2007 om 09:56
@Ema: Thanks for your help. I agree with you that WWB should be excluded from the list on the basis of the post you mentioned. But even for a human it is very hard to conclude what is true and what is not. I wrote an article about that, unfortunately for now only in Dutch. I have some faith in the ‘Wisdom of the crowds’. If WWB writes nonsense, then less blogs are going to link to that site. As a result of that their ranking will increase, i.e. at a lower position.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?26 augustus 2007 om 15:48
Jan,
Good point about the “Wisdom of the crowds”, but only as a measure of popularity. Now, if you could combine that with a way to measure accuracy I think you’re on to something.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?29 augustus 2007 om 04:31
I like your list! Please don’t change your algorithm too much.
And thanks for going to all the effort to put this together.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?29 augustus 2007 om 11:36
@Crabby: Why should I not change to much in the algorithm? Are you perhaps afraid to drop a few positions
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Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?29 augustus 2007 om 19:23
Jan, exactly!
I like your list because it likes me! Cranky Fitness is a sometimes silly blog, so I’m very happy to be included.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?1 september 2007 om 13:28
When is the next update for this list?
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?2 september 2007 om 15:15
I just updated the list. You can find your weblog at rank 210.
Zou u dit commentaar, indien u dit nog niet gedaan heeft, willen beoordelen?2 september 2007 om 15:52
I’ll see if I can install some multi-language tool for WordPress. If you have a good suggestion, let me know.
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