Mayroon bang Pinoy A-List?

Pinong Libreryan ay nagtatanong, "Mayroon bang Pinoy A-list?"

Ang tanong na iyon ay itinatanong ko rin kay Marc sa aming huling pag-inom ng beer. Sinasabi niya na mas magandang sukatan nito ang "social currency" at binibigyang-diin ito sa kanyang lumang entry na "Trust is King".

Gayunpaman, nais kong tumugon dito sa ilang punto na inihain ni Vonjobi:

1) Pinoy Top Blogs. Ang proyekto na ito ay nagkukuha lamang ng bilang ng natatanging traffic bawat buwan at ihahambing ito sa iba sa listahan. Ito lang ang ginagawa nito at walang higit pa dito. Mayroon itong pagkakakilanlan upang i-rank ang mga estadistika ng traffic sa iba't ibang larangan - personal, pampulitika, teknolohiya, at entablado. Ngunit hindi ba't nagtatanong ang tanong na "Kung ikaw ay nasa A-list, nangangahulugan ba ito na karamihan ang iyong traffic?" Gayunpaman, ang traffic ay hindi katumbas ng mga regular na mambabasa. Ang traffic ay simpleng panghulog lamang sa ibabaw ng cake.

2) Ang Top 100 na Blog ng Pilipinas ni Technorati. Ang pagsukat na ito ay hinango lamang mula sa Top 100 na Pinopoblahang Blog ni Technorati sa blogosfera (pinakamalaking mga blog sa blogosfera, na sinusukat batay sa natatanging link sa loob ng huling anim na buwan). Ang listahang ito ay nakabatay sa kung gaano ka-popular ang iyong blog sa mga blogger at akala ko ay malapit itong maging magandang pagsukat para sa isang A-list.

Ang mga punto sa itaas ay tumutukoy sa dalawang anyo ng popularidad - ang unang isa ay popularidad sa mga gumagamit ng internet na nakakahanap ng blog sa pamamagitan ng search engines, at ang pangalawa ay tumutukoy sa popularidad sa mga blogger (dahil sila ang nag-link sa iyong blog) at bumubuo sa batayan kung paano tinuturing ng karamihan bilang A-list.

Ang dalawang pamantayang ito ay katumbas lamang ng kalahati ng buong kwento. Idinagdag ni Marc na ang social currency ay nananatiling pangunahing salik dito: Ayon sa aking diksyunaryo, ang tagumpay ng isang blog ay nangangahulugan na makapag-impluwensya at makapagmobilisa ng mga tao. Ang matagumpay na blogger ay makakapagpaikli ng mga tao na isaalang-alin o kahit tanggapin ang kanyang panig sa isang partikular na paksa. Siya ay taong laging pinag-uugnayan nang awtomatiko. Ito ang posibleng pinakasimpleng depinisyon ng isang matagumpay na blogger.

At sinabi ni Von, "Naisip ko na hindi maganda kung isasama ko ang aking sariling blog sa mga listahang iyon dahil ako mismo ang nag-uupdate nito."

What does the Pinoy Top Blogs project measure?

It counts unique traffic on a monthly basis and compares it to others in the list.

How does Technorati's Philippine Top 100 Blogs determine popularity?

It measures popularity by unique links to a blog in the last six months.

What two forms of popularity are discussed in the article?

Popularity among internet users via search engines and popularity among bloggers who link to your blog.

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14 Comments

Vivian Wood · 15 years ago

Hi there. I am still very new in blog and all aspects around this field. There are various jargons I still donâ€™t understand. Iâ€™m not really sure I can blogging half decent to yours. I am gonna read the entire site perhaps I can learn your writing style a little.

evelin · 16 years ago

Nice blog, I bookmarked it.

vonjobi · 20 years ago

tracking back…

“Blogs as Filipiniana, Part I”

Some suggestions have been made through the comments on my post, Random Takes and Ambot Ah! I’d like to suggest the following definition…

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 20 years ago

@ von

was just echoing you, actually (better it come from me). And yes, I think the Philippine blogosphere is too small to come up with such list.

Migs is on the money with “what makes a blog Pinoy”. There are Filipinos that blog about totally foreign topics while there are foreigners that blog about the Philippines.

I guess in the end, if our goal is to capture a screenshot of the “philippine blogging scene”, I think we should be focusing more of “about the Philippines” rather than “by the Filipinos”.

Miguel · 20 years ago

There’s another metric to build on #2. How many people actually quote you and link back, as opposed to just including you on their blogroll. At the moment, Technorati can’t tell the difference.

On what makes a blog Pinoy: I guess, if it’s something uniquely about Pinoy culture. My own blog, for instance, barely qualifies as a Pinoy blog.

no criticism was implied. it was really just me thinking aloud. i guess i wouldn’t include my blog, too, if i were doing the updating of the lists. and that’s why i said you were being modest =)

but the question remains: what’s an A-list? then again, maybe it’s not as important a question here in the philippines, where blogging is just taking off. the more important question for me is this: what makes a blog “pinoy”?

Yeah, Yugatech, Pinoy Tech Blog and some other important ones are missing from Pinoy Top Blogs. I should be sure to add them for the next round of aggregation.

Besides that, the Pinoy Megite cluster seems to be doing OK.