Comments on: Mapping Lines of Influence http://mindlace.net/2006/06/09/mapping-lines-of-influence/ a necessary absence Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tony conrad http://mindlace.net/2006/06/09/mapping-lines-of-influence/comment-page-1/#comment-263 tony conrad Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:30:02 +0000 http://mindlace.net/archives/2006/06/09/mapping-lines-of-influence/#comment-263 hi ethan - thanks for mentioning sphere in your post. i thought the conference was very interesting, lots of cool discussion on the value of links. being monofocused does help a blog to build an audience. building an audience helps a blog post to be recognized as a highly relevant piece of a conversation. it also is a key variable in being recognized as one of our Featured Blogs on a topic. but in sphere blog search results (not the Featured Blogs section in our site), you can get noticed in a lot of different ways. in search results, it doesn't really matter if you're monofocused or not. as an example, if you're post initiates a conversation, that gets recognized in our algorithm. if you're post gets widely read or commented on, that helps too. there are lots of checks and balances in our algorithm to help make sure that new voices can surface tot he top. thanks again for mentioning us - i'd appreciate hearing your feedback on our site and especially, the sphere it bookmarklet. best, tony hi ethan – thanks for mentioning sphere in your post. i thought the conference was very interesting, lots of cool discussion on the value of links.

being monofocused does help a blog to build an audience. building an audience helps a blog post to be recognized as a highly relevant piece of a conversation. it also is a key variable in being recognized as one of our Featured Blogs on a topic.

but in sphere blog search results (not the Featured Blogs section in our site), you can get noticed in a lot of different ways. in search results, it doesn’t really matter if you’re monofocused or not. as an example, if you’re post initiates a conversation, that gets recognized in our algorithm. if you’re post gets widely read or commented on, that helps too. there are lots of checks and balances in our algorithm to help make sure that new voices can surface tot he top.

thanks again for mentioning us – i’d appreciate hearing your feedback on our site and especially, the sphere it bookmarklet. best,

tony

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