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Coordinating announcements in the blogosphere, Techmeme placement

From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:29:57 +0100
Message-ID: <1f2ed5cd0612160129y416b0bafx161847163fe9463f@mail.gmail.com>
To: "W3C SWEO IG" <public-sweo-ig@w3.org>

>From what I've seen, Techmeme [1] seems something of a must-read in
the Web 2.0 community (I mentioned it here before as a possible source
of influencer's names).

The entries that are displayed are sourced from a list of blogs known
to be on-topic, with linking (presumably within the source group)
providing the ranking. Length of blog post is a factor - longer is
better.

I'm not suggesting we game the system (like the recent Digg
controversy), simply that as and when SWEO has material to
release/announce it would probably make sense to coordinate posts on
blogs to maximise interlinking & the impact of sync'd publicity. I
don't know PR but I assume this is an accepted practice. Techmeme may
be worth treating as a rough measure of the impact.

I was reminded because a post of Ian's just showed up on Techmeme, see
the bottom of [2]. I'm pretty sure I've seen posts from Ian there in
the past, Shelley Powers appears regularly. Note that although I
linked to Ian's post (and have had things occasionally show at
Techmeme in the past) , my one-line quote isn't listed, presumably
fell below the length threshold.

Everyone here does have a blog, don't they?  ;-)

Cheers,
Danny.

[1] http://www.techmeme.com/
[2] http://www.techmeme.com/061216/h0305

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