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write4u
I always have time for you, Doll.  Thank you for coming along for the ride, and fasten your seat belt!  I'm jus gettin' started with scatter shots all over tarnation.  Yeah, livin' in the middle of redneck country does rub off on you after a while. 

posted by notapoet on April 10, 2004 at 2:23 AM | link to this | reply

Not, once again thank you for explaining...these things are beyond me!
Thanks for your time.

posted by write4u on April 10, 2004 at 1:51 AM | link to this | reply

Kay-Ren
I feel that it takes a combination of both, rank and comments, to evaluate how well a given blog or post is doing.  I've had blogs crack the Top 100 with little or no comment.  I've had others that generated several comments without going beyond the 300s.  Its particularly difficult to evaluate readership in the Mature Audience categoy.  The hidden nature of the category, and its very name, means that many bloggers will never see your post unless it is recommended to them via self-promotion, or throughinterest generated by reading the comments of others on your most recent post.  This can also be discouraging because many readers may enjoy your MA blog yet refrain from commenting simply because they don't want to admit they are reading anything in the category.  If these obstacles did not exist, you could probably divide your blog's rank by 2 or 3.  In addition, it would be safe to assume that your readership is much higher than it appears because so many bloggers are reticent to comment on MA posts.

posted by notapoet on April 10, 2004 at 1:44 AM | link to this | reply

Looking forward to it, beachbelle
My curiosity is piqued.  I'll try to contain myself until you're ready to post.  I'm always fascinated by how different people analyze similar data.

posted by notapoet on April 10, 2004 at 1:30 AM | link to this | reply

Elementary, my dear littlemspickles. Elementary.

At the bottom-center of the home page, just above "New Comments -- Most Popular Today" is a link labeled "More in New Posts."  Clicking on this will bring you to a long list, 25 blogs per page, of the last post to each blog from most recent to...well, I don't know how far back it goes.  Each entry tells you how long ago it was posted.  Keep going back until you run out of posts that were made within the last 30 days.  A little quick math (this is where the 25 blogs per page comes into play) will give you the number of posts made within the last 30 days, or any other period of time you care to investigate.  Clicking on the name of the blogger for a given post will take you to that blogger's member profile.  Here you can find the current overall rank of the blog.

As for the lowest ranked blog, this will vary at times.  It is quite simply the blog with the oldest post that has not been clicked on recently.  People like myself and Tamara99, who love to investigate and poke around in old things, keep changing which blog is the lowest ranked blog on any given day.  It can be found by going to the last blog in any of the older categories, such as Poetry, Opinion, and Everything else.  You might be able to find it by continuing back in "More in New Posts," if it goes all the way back to the beginning.  I'm a patient man, but I don't know if I've got that much patience.  Since there are now over 8,000 blogs on Blogit, that would involve going back over more than 320 pages.   

posted by notapoet on April 10, 2004 at 1:27 AM | link to this | reply

This was very interesting information. I've got five or six people that I know for sure are reading my Erotic Novel as it progresses. That's better then I hoped for. I judge my Blog more on their comments then on their rank. If I get just a few comments I know that I was able to reach people. If I don't get any, I feel that the Blog isn't interesting to people.

posted by Kay-Ren on April 10, 2004 at 1:26 AM | link to this | reply

Notapoet
I have been conducting a study of my own and will write about it in a day or two.

posted by beachbelle on April 10, 2004 at 1:22 AM | link to this | reply

Navel gazing?
I hadn't thought of it that way, Darlin', but I suppose you could say so.  I'm just trying to put a few things into proper perspective on my way to showing people that it isn't necessary to be in the Top 10 or Top 100 to make your mark.  I've also been following your posts with a great deal of interest.  That old "like minds" cliche again. 

posted by notapoet on April 10, 2004 at 1:03 AM | link to this | reply

I like this analysis...
but where and how did you find out the number of active blogs? and what pray tell is the lowest ranking blog?!

posted by littlemspickles on April 10, 2004 at 12:51 AM | link to this | reply

R U Navel gazing too my friend?

posted by beachbelle on April 10, 2004 at 12:44 AM | link to this | reply