There’s a new aggregation site that ranks learning-related blogs, called Learning Signal. It has some similarities with Technorati, and I’ve received a couple of e-mails from the company but haven’t followed-up, as I wasn’t sure if I wanted to add to their intelligence gathering (though it seems benign):
Just in case there was any confusion, I had one more thing I wanted to clarify with you…
The posts you’re seeing listed on LearningSignal.com are not random.
We’re actually assigning a score on every post based on a math algorithm.
Learning Signals could be a practical site for someone trying to get the pulse or zeitgeist of the field, but human-driven services such as OLDaily may provide more context.
Especially since, to his own astonishment, Graham Wegner’s Teeaching Generation Z comes out top of the list ahead of you, Lee Kraus, Dave Warlick and Tony Karrer in second to fifth places! Stephen Downes doesn’t even appear in the top fifteen.
Graham said on Twitter today “And apparently I outrank David Warlick, Jay Cross, D’Arcy Norman and even Doug Noon. Very interesting. Flattering but not very accurate”
Good points, Karyn, but my understanding of the LS ranking is that it is only for the current day, and Stephen hasn’t published OLDaily yet. I’m assuming that the rankings will keep changing, and may even start to showcase some lesser known blogs. I’m hoping, anyway.
Heh – in my case, I think they started with one of the lesser lights. It reminds me of the OEDb Top 100 Education Blogs from late last year which seemed to rub a number of edubloggers up the wrong way. Lists that rank always make me feel uncomfortable – even Technorati’s numbers seem to be make believe at times. It will be interesting to see what sort of service this actually provides – or whether it’s just a way to drive traffic to their Google Ads. In that case, my blog isn’t going to be much of a money spinner for them!!!