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Post number 9165

Nothing — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:22:24 -0800

Blogdex at media.mit.edu (The link may not work, I've gotten through twice now, both times between noon and 4pm PST, but every other time I've tried I've gotten server not available errors.)Does anyone know what this is? The times I got through it looked like an interesting cross tabulation of what is being covered in the web log world, like a handy index for people looking for entries on a certain topic. It was not complete looking when I got in last, the site mostly consisted of the front, and an "about" section, but the front page did have a list of the top ten links being talked about on currently indexed blogs. I found the link in my referer log.

By: Nothing

Nothing — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:23:49 -0800

I hope I'm not messing up someone's project or grand opening by posting this.

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:40:48 -0800

you might have emailed to ask.

By: lia

lia — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:45:48 -0800

rebecca has a point, although you'd have to question the wisdom of people planning a secret grand opening around a blog project and not taking referrer logs into consideration, no?

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:46:09 -0800

it looks to me like a neo-beebo with big plans.

By: Nothing

Nothing — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:01:50 -0800

I would have emailed if I had been able to get back to the page and look for an email address. I did not see one when I was last there, but admittedly I wasn't specifically looking as I assumed I would be able to go back. That was three days ago. Anyway, it looks like project done by someone who is fairly savvy, so I think they must have known it would get out via logs eventually, which may be when they are keeping the server offline most of the time.

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:27:34 -0800

I just got a note from the maintainer of the site; he's stranded in california and doesn't know why the server has gone down. he asked me to tell people to check back on monday, when everything should be up and running again.

By: Nothing

Nothing — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:28:59 -0800

How did you get a hold of him?

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:32:28 -0800

when I found the site yesterday, I clicked on the link that said "for more information" or somesuch, and he wrote back. tonight, I just shot a note off using that address.

By: adnan

adnan — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 02:02:11 -0800

I managed to log on. apparently it's an experiment to comb all the weblogs to create a news index of some sort.

By: barbelith

barbelith — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 04:31:14 -0800

Sounds great. I've really been missing beebo's metalog over the last year or so. It was a great way of seeing what was actually going on in the world - in the community - what people were talking about - what was cutting-edge.

By: holgate

holgate — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 07:25:21 -0800

rebecca: it got featured in NTK's "Memepool" section this week ("BLOGS, without all that tedious 'personal commentary' stuff"), so any effect of its being posted to MeFi is probably just icing on the cake.

By: jkottke

jkottke — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:07:40 -0800

New Approaches to Middle Media: MemeMail and Bloggdex: "Cameron Marlow is developing a system that tracks and indexes the most popular posts on Blogger sites. By doing a regression analysis of Blogger posts, Cameron's system will be able to predict the emergence of a new meme before it has spread widely." being posted to MeFi is probably just icing on the cake Easy there, Nick. MeFi is the icing on no one's cake! (The gum on someone's shoe maybe...)

By: holgate

holgate — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:15:45 -0800

I was going to say "larding the trifle", Jason, but where that concept comes from, I really don't know.

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:59:20 -0800

I knew I should have checked MeFi sooner. I spent about an hour or two yesterday trying to trackdown what this was, as I had found a link to this multiple times in my access log over the past few days.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:20:41 -0800

it looks to me like a neo-beebo with big plans Isn't he a character in the sequel to The Matrix?