Nice. A "nice to have" would be the ability to assign a qualitative value/vote as there is the danger that high-frequency blogs end up dominating, and the less frequent but high value blogs get pushed to the bottom
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
That could be a third tab
bijan
· 8 months ago
Thanks!
I need to add blogrollr too.
álvaro ortiz
· 8 months ago
Don't know if actually they are tracking which posts you read through Bloglines/Google Reader or other aggregators, but that info should ideally be also included, shouldn't it? It would be great, as I am sure many of us read a lot of posts without visiting the sources.
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
Good point
Since I don't read through a reader, it doesn't impact me
Scott Yates
· 8 months ago
I had the same thought. The only time I ever click on your blog or most of the others is if I'm going to comment. That's useful, but if I read something in my Newsgator reader, it doesn't mean I didn't like it if I don't click on it.
Newsgator/NetNewsWire would be wise to set up a similar sort of tool.
ppearlman
· 8 months ago
lindzon?
flash in the pan.
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
Agreed
Just like twitter
howard lindzon
· 8 months ago
i am kvelling. thx fred. high praise and made my week.
George Nimeh
· 8 months ago
Did the same person do your and Howard's avatars?
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
Yes, howard did mine
howard lindzon
· 8 months ago
too funny. i can fire you. could'nt live without you though so good one.
kevinmarks
· 8 months ago
Normalizing by the number of posts they make might give a better signal for which blogs you really like (Google Reader offers both versions, and they are interestingly different).
Jared O'Toole
· 8 months ago
Actually never heard of blogrollr. Will have to check it out. seems like an easy to way to keep my blogroll up-to-date.
Adam Wexler
· 8 months ago
what about Fred Wilson Dot VC? Don't make your own cut?
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
i read most tumblogs on the tumblr dashboard so that is an issue with this list
Corvida Raven
· 8 months ago
Thanks for the info on your Blogrollr widget. I'll be taking it into consideration to put up on my blog. I'm constantly reading new stuff and sometimes I don't want to share certain blogs that I read. Is there a way to edit those blogs out?
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
yes, you can blacklist blogs, either one time or permanently
Mark Essel
· 8 months ago
Each of the blogs I subscribe to help to filter the unrelenting information stream.
Does this apply to the blogs I subscribe and read religiously: "You’re the Average of the 5 People You Hang Out with Most" (Jack Canfield?)
Just discovered Venturebeat this weekend, I'm falling behind on one of my favorites KevinKelly (http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/), he dropped two evolutionary bombs this weekend (incredibly detailed thought inspiring posts). It takes me some time to take it all in and there's so much out there I want to read.
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
Yup
Our scare resource is attention
MG Siegler
· 8 months ago
Appreciate the kind words Fred.
mcluhead
· 8 months ago
Thanks for this.
RacerRick
· 8 months ago
Where is Hacker News? RSS?
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
I read hacker news daily
Just forgot about it
I don’t use RSS readers
I prefer smart aggregators
facebook-201963
· 8 months ago
+1 on the reader integration...this is the first time I can recall in the last few weeks that I've actually gone to a blog directly, I consume everything through GReader.
Interestingly your last post was all about aggregators...why not one for RSS? (your comment below says you don't use one). I don't comment much, which I thought might be your reason?
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
I like to read on the web, not in a reader
jsepoch
· 8 months ago
I was wondering why i got crazy traffic on a sunday? now i know. thanks for letting me ride your coattails.
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
You EARNED it baby!
chrsoz
· 8 months ago
FYI Fred, unless 'Most viewed' and 'Recent' are genuinely the same (doesn't seem as though it can be the case, since I understood 'recent' to be about specific posts) there's a problem with the operation of the tabs (in all the browsers), as there's no change as you flick between them (infact, the tabs in the sidebar version of the widget don't appear to be active).
Infact, think I'd change the tabs to 'Top blogs' and 'Recent reads' to clarify what's behind each one.
Nice data though. And thoroughly agree re Broadstuff. Great content that Alan churns out.
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
I noticed that too
It was working fine but I might have messed it up by putting the same widget in two places on the same page
chrsoz
· 8 months ago
Yep, that seems to be the problem. The widget's fine on other avc posts (when they'e being viewed in full), but is messed up on this one, and on the homepage (since the second widget is visible in the lead part of the post on the homepage).
There, my random act of testing is done for the day :)
Cameron
· 8 months ago
Except for some edge cases, the extension should track the stuff that you are reading in your Google Reader. We will be working on other popular readers in the future.
Cameron_BlogRollr
· 8 months ago
So the widget is broken on the home page (and this individual post) because of a css ID issue. We're looking into ways that this can be fixed. For now, though, you can just click into another of Fred's posts to see it in action. Any other questions, problems, or suggestions, don't hesitate to email me. cameron@blogrollr.com
Cameron
fredwilson
· 8 months ago
I love it when my blog breaks stuff!!!
jpmarcum
· 8 months ago
great to see this working. would be fun to see a layer showing your visits to trad media sites...
vincetastic
· 7 months ago
This is a really great list, I really like TechCrunch, don't know why you are so hard on it. Anyone can post their own top ten list to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list. Thanks for narrowing it down to 30.
fredwilson
· 7 months ago
Techcrunch writes things that are not true and they don't care that they do that. I think that's a problem and they should stop doing that
jpayne8
· 7 months ago
other than techmeme, what other smart aggregators do you use?
fredwilson
· 7 months ago
I listed them in another comment to this post. I left out hacker news and real clear politics though as other's pointed out
leigh
· 7 months ago
Jessica's got an amazing eye for portrait photography.
All Comments
I need to add blogrollr too.
Since I don't read through a reader, it doesn't impact me
Newsgator/NetNewsWire would be wise to set up a similar sort of tool.
flash in the pan.
Just like twitter
Does this apply to the blogs I subscribe and read religiously: "You’re the Average of the 5 People You Hang Out with Most" (Jack Canfield?)
Just discovered Venturebeat this weekend, I'm falling behind on one of my favorites KevinKelly (http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/), he dropped two evolutionary bombs this weekend (incredibly detailed thought inspiring posts). It takes me some time to take it all in and there's so much out there I want to read.
Our scare resource is attention
Just forgot about it
I don’t use RSS readers
I prefer smart aggregators
Interestingly your last post was all about aggregators...why not one for RSS? (your comment below says you don't use one). I don't comment much, which I thought might be your reason?
Infact, think I'd change the tabs to 'Top blogs' and 'Recent reads' to clarify what's behind each one.
Nice data though. And thoroughly agree re Broadstuff. Great content that Alan churns out.
It was working fine but I might have messed it up by putting the same widget in two places on the same page
There, my random act of testing is done for the day :)
We will be working on other popular readers in the future.
Cameron
Butch Decossas
Shouldn't be too hard for BlogRollr to extract at least the feed source from http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed/...