BlogCode helps you find blogs similar to…

by on February 13, 2006

Ever find a blogger you really like and wonder “are there other blogs similar to this one?” Well, that’s what BlogCode is trying to do. Mine will be indexed shortly (I filled out a short “code” about my blog and at the end of it I learned that Matt Cutts of Google is similar to me. I already subscribe to Matt, but that does demonstrate that this is a good way to find out if there’s other bloggers who are similar to your interests).

Oh, and Matt, if you ever wanna sneak onto Microsoft’s campus (it’s just half a mile from Google’s in Mountain View) let me know. Our cafeteria isn’t as hip, but I’ll buy you lunch and show you around. Why did I say that? Well, he took photos of Ask Jeeves’ corporate offices today and wondered if he could get access to other Silicon Valley offices for his picture-taking exploits. After all, Google let me onto its campus with my camcorder a while back so turnaround is fair play!

Update: the list of blogs that are similar to mine is up now. Neat, some cool new blogs that I didn’t know about!

Oh, while we’re talking about blogs similar to mine, I see there was a dustup over on Doc Searls blog (and others) about the fact that the Z list is being kept out of the kingdom by the A list bloggers. I guess by linking to Doc’s blog I’m a gatekeeper and I’m just working to keep the Z list down. Hey, it’s a conspiracy. If we only link to each other you’ll never be able to find any new voices, right?

Here, let’s play a game. Everyone in the world say “brrreeeport” on your blog and you’ll be listed on this Technorati page automatically. Heh. There are also no pages on the Internet linked to for that term on Google, Yahoo, or MSN.

So, now you too can take down the man! Get your due! Get around the gatekeepers. Tell all those A list bloggers to screw off and die! Heheh. Or, you can let me own that term all bymyself! Heheh.

  • /pd
    "Here, let’s play a game. Everyone in the world say “brrreeeport” on your blog and you’ll be listed on this Technorati page automatically"

    it will take 12 days or more for "brrreeeport"to be listed in the index of technorati...
  • Well, this was a disappointment - I thought it would somehow analyze the source blog, but the only input seems to be the few slider settings ... or have I missed something?
  • Sweet! You'll share a page on someone else's server that nobody will look at in a couple of days with the Z-list? How generous!

    Rob, when people tell you that you don't get it, that you don't hear what they are saying, it's only because you don't.
  • brrreeeport

    lets hope it doesn't take 12 days :-)
  • not 12 days, more like 12 minutes, fame and fortune awaits all us Z listers
  • ninefish: you're famous! To me. :-)
  • Phil: what do you know? We all know you're an evil A lister who won't play the Z list game.
  • OK Robert what is the difference between an A lister and a Z lister, how does one identify ones status with this listing?
  • Dave
    Jeez. There are people who lead, people who follow.... and others who fool the rest of us.

    Think: Hollywood versus reality. Think - where does integrity fit in and, think, where does coolness fit in.

    Robert, where do YOU fit in?

    Well, you certainly don't lead. It took quite a few posts using this supposedly new term (meme for those who pretend to be cool) called "gatekeeper" before you decided to chime in.

    How about follow? Well, to your creidt you don't quite fit there either.

    Fool the rest of us? Only in the sense that Hollywood does.... for where exactly do that place fit into the real world?


    Hey! There you go Robert.... I should call you a HollyGatekeeper!
  • Dave: I grant you entrance into the HollyGateLand.
  • Fearless: hmmm, I grant you a pass to at least the m-level. ;-)
  • Glad to see I'm not the only one taking pictures of famous Silicon Valley spots! I have full photo tours here http://www.ageekstour.com. Also includes a visit to Microsoft's main Redmond campus, as well as a fun picture of Bill Gates from Seattle's fish market here: http://www.ageekstour.com/wiki.cgi?BillGates
  • You can check out the number and order of blogs inputted into BlogCode by referencing the resulting URL for each blog. The first blog inputted: Wonkette.

    More observations here: http://euroross.blogspot.com/2006/02/just-like-...
  • Just managed to get 5mins of free time to try the blog code thing... was anyone else's closed match in the wrong language ?!?!?!?
  • it's a feature for portal integration, not as useful for individuals like me
  • try this search - @runb@laj! on google yahoo microsoft or any other search engine.

    and i am sure u will find my website and webpages related to me in that search results.

    why cant u try with say bill g@tes and all

    becos email addresses were harvested using the @ symbol
    so all search engines decided to exclude @ symbol in search results

    the only keyword to survive is mine.

    u will find many results some of which link to this keyeword which misuse this keyword.

    when i created it and used it my website was the only result on any search engines results.

    now after this post the keyword will be deleted from all search engines.

    now i am writing a post which will contribute more words like brrreeeport and all.

    that post will read like its trash and unless u know ur englisgh we;ll and net well ur will reafd ;ike trash

    bye
    @runb@laj!
  • Do you think that this is a better way than Technorati to categorize blogs? brrreeeport...
  • To aid in this I have set up www.brrreeeport.org which lists the top referrers to it.
  • Great service!! Noted.
  • I will try my best to get you onto Slashdot! Nothing like a new fad to try :)
  • I visited BlogCode, and it seems to be a variation on the Alexa theme of getting lots of blog reviews. It is an upstat on Alexa, in that the sliders cause people to be descriptive, instead of just saying "This blog rocks!" or "This blog stinks!" However, they should just say "Describe this blog," instead of "code this blog." It took too long to figure out how to give them what they wanted, and it wouldn't hurt for them to say how to contact them, either.

    BlogCode's top 3 matches for my Minnesota blog aggregator were 1) a software development blog in the UK, 2) an intellectual property lawyer's blog in Canada, and 3) a software developer's blog in Liechtenstein, in German. I kept wondering ".li? What is .li?" There seem to be still a few bugs in the system, but it's interesting.

    I was talking to someone about BlogCode last night, and they said, "I would like for it to tell me about blogs that are wildly unlike my blog." BlogCode doesn't seem to have that feature yet.
  • This is almost as much fun as the miserable failure googlebomb.
  • Brrreeeport! Bah! Humbug!!! or Humdinger of a Humbug!!!


    Brrreeeport!


    Mary

    http://www.greatbodyatblogspot.com
  • This is very clever. Now it's working like "virus marketing" to promote some lesser known sites. I wonder if it could help promote a local music event, too?

    I'll add it to our site, just to see what happens.
  • Here is my posting at http://www.rogerbetagold.blogspot.com/ for

    Brrreeeport - Scoble's Keyword Experiment.


    What is brrreeeport?

    It's a new experiment on keyword relevancy suggested by Microsoft's employee blogger, Robbert Scoble.

    The theory that A-list bloggers only links to each other, thus preventing less-influencial bloggers to ever get a chance to rank high for highly competitive keywords. Robert "coined" this word, brrreeeport and invited less-known bloggers to post it on their blogs in order to track the results and at the same time to help them finally get good ranking.

    In a matter of days this word, brrreeeport, was not only listed on Technorati's blog listing, it's actually became one of the Technorati's most searched keywords.

    It's now listed on Google and Yahoo
    Also we can even see pay per click advertisement for this keyword.

    One person already registered brrreeeport as a domain name
    To learn more go to...............
    http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/02/13/blog...
  • Hi! Nice site!
  • Very interesting, signed up too and thank you for the tip.
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  • Personally, I never use more than one life on this if I understand this correclty. I just wonder why so many do not understand how this is. I guess that is the beauty of it all. Good post though!!
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