Comments on: Top 25 Librarian Bloggers?

By: Phil Bradley's weblog: Top 25 Librarian Bloggers

Phil Bradley's weblog: Top 25 Librarian Bloggers — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:43:01 +0000

[...] they’re not in the DMOZ listing. They also did a search in Google for ‘librarian blog’ which as one commentator has pointed out is a pretty silly and poor search. Maybe they should have asked a librarian to come [...]

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:55:36 +0000

Steve, thanks for checking! I didn’t have time to do a search and poke around, but I’m glad that you found those results.

By: steveb

steveb — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:31:36 +0000

hi nicole. i read your post and have to agree about the flawed ranking methodology (actually pretty ridiculous) – especially the search for “librarian blog” in google. I wondered where Kept-Up Academic Librarian would show up – well it doesn’t – at least not on the first 10 or 20 pages. But CoolLibrarian is on the first page. I then did a LINK: command search on both blogs. KUAL has over 700 sites linking to it, while Cool Librarian has a mere 133 sites linking to it. Which one sounds like it’s more popular to you? but coolibrarian is a “blogger” blog – so “blog” is in the URL – twice actually – and it has the word blog in the navigation. KUAL on the other hand doesn’t even mention the word blog anywhere on the site – and it’s on typepad. Flawed indeed. That’s why I think rankings are a bad idea and should be ignored – unless they are supremely quantitative – like baseball players’ batting averages.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:33:29 +0000

Also a good point!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:18:36 +0000

“I guess this just goes to show you that you need a librarian to do the search for you”

Well said.

My thought when I saw their criteria about DMOZ was, who uses DMOZ anymore?