Daypop

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <9p0rfu+o76v@eGroups.com>, Bill Kearney
<wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes
>http://www.daypop.com
>
>This looks cool.

I think he's parsing the html and stripping all the
links out. The links are then ranked by how often they appear with an
algorithm with a fast decay rate. Very similar to Blogdex. The main
difference is that he's focussed on news sites instead of blogs.
(Although there are lots of blogs on it). 

Rather cool is to click on the little w on the end of the top 40 bar
graph. It gives you a google style display of the sites that had that
link.

This and Blogdex have come up with a rich set of metadata about the web
zeitgeist. I think a very similar effort could be applied to all known
RSS. I also half expect Google to leap on the idea and expose similar
stats from their spider. They've already tuned it to pay more attention
to rapidly changing sites and they get way more data than the rest of
us. 

The RSS of the top 40 list (http://www.daypop.com/top.htm) is at
http://myhome.mystuff.net/myweblog/daypop.cgi I've added it to Syndic8
(http://www.syndic8.com).

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