Comments on: The Healthcare 100 will never be perfect — but we won’t stop trying!

By: Cary Byrd

Cary Byrd — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:55:44 +0000

John,

The algorithm does weight Technorati more heavily, not because its data is more reliable — but because what Technorati measures (recent inbound blog links) is the best single indication of influence.

That said, measurements like subscriber totals and PageRank help fill out the picture.

By: John W

John W — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:35:41 +0000

Cary,

I’ve just come across Healthcare 100 and it’s clearly a valuable resource.

Maybe this has been said before, but let me say it anyway. Your algorithm adds up four scores with different maxima (10, 20, 30 and 10) and either 0 or 1 as a minimum. Surely that means that the component score with a maximum of 30 (Technorati) is three times more influential on the Total Score than the two with maxima of 10 (Google and edrugsearch), with the Bloglines score having an intermediate influence?

Is there an implicit value judgment in the algorithm that Technorati is more reliable than the others?

By: August Top 100 english written medblogs Â» MedBlog.nl

August Top 100 english written medblogs Â» MedBlog.nl — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:56:38 +0000

[...] Last month MedBlog.nl collected data from 593 english written medblogs. Number 1 of August is KevinMD. Runner up this month is Medgadget.com, yeah those guys. The solution of Technorati problems probably causes their steep advance from 137 to 2. Third on the list is Bad Science. Number 1 of the sneak preview Healthbolt dropped three positions to rank 4. Gruntdoc at position 46 makes the biggest improvement (+336). The number between the brackets displays the rise or decrease of rank (1). Below you can see the top 100. [...]