{"id":692,"date":"2002-06-03T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2002-06-03T18:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/06\/bear-fiction\/"},"modified":"2002-06-03T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2002-06-03T18:48:06","slug":"bear-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/03\/bear-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— A new blog, The Truth Laid Bear<\/a>, claims to be measuring links to blogs:<\/p>\n

Therefore, I decided to try to develop a way to measure, somewhat more objectively, where the most “interesting” spots in the blogosphere were. One measure of doing this would be to capture who is being linked to by other bloggers the most. Easier said than done — but not impossible, as it turns out. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It turns out his method leaves a lot to be desired: according to him, there are 49 links into bennett.com, but according to my server log, there are 1877, and I can tell you exactly what each one of them is. He says there are only two links to Jerry Pournelle, ridiculous, and only 7 to Jason Kottke, one of the top five blogs in the entire universe, and Dave Winer’s Scripting News, the biggest tech blog, isn’t on the list at all.
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\nBack to the drawing board, Bear – Alexa rankings are more accurate than this crap.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— A new blog, The Truth Laid Bear, claims to be measuring links to blogs: Therefore, I decided to try to develop a way to measure, somewhat more objectively, where the most “interesting” spots in the blogosphere were. One measure of doing this would be to capture who is being linked to by other bloggers … Continue reading “Bear fiction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-ba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}