Technorati Authority and blog diversity.

Technorati is a blog cataloguing site that rates the “authority” of blogs (a measure of how many other blogs link to a particular blog in a six month period). It also gives some insight into how the blogosphere perceives a particular blog.

Today, I checked my Technorati authority. What I found was rather interesting. Although my overall authority at 101 is a decline, from the last time I checked (a popular article of mine, is past six months of age), my blog has garnered interest for many other qualities.

My Entertainment authority stands at 96, ranking me 3,781^st out of all entertainment related blogs, worldwide.

My Living authority is 66, ranking me at 27,248^th out of all living related blogs, worldwide.

My Family authority is 84, ranking me at 1,712^th out of all family related blogs, worldwide.

My Politics authority is 112, ranking me at 3,637^th out of all politics related blogs, worldwide.

My U.S Politics authority is 119, ranking me at 2,168^th out of all U.S. politics related blogs, worldwide.

My Books authority is 144, ranking me at 1,210^th out of all book related blogs, worldwide.

It is somewhat revelatory to see how the blogosphere categorizes my blog, with respect to each of these aspects. It makes me realize that my blog is actually quite diverse in its concerns – and quite well thought of relatively speaking, in each area.

To put my blog rankings in perspective, there were at least 181 million blogs in the world as of early 2012. So, the fact that I should be ranked in the thousands, across so many categories is both gratifying and surprising. It does show that my efforts have been well received, overall.

Thank you to all my readers, particularly those who have chosen to link to my articles to share them with their own readerships. It is much appreciated.

Happy reading, all!

Posted by Valentine Cawley

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My Internet Movie Database listing is at:http://imdb.com/name/nm3438598/

Ainan's IMDB listing is at http://imdb.com/name/nm3305973/

Syahidah's IMDB listing is at http://imdb.com/name/nm3463926/

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IMDb Starmeter: up, up, up and away!

The IMDb Starmeter is a very interesting idea. It is found on the Internet Movie Database. What it does, quite simply, is measure the interests of the global internet audience - more specifically, WHO they are interested in, and by how much.

Everyone who is included on IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, has a Starmeter reading. This ranks them in relation to every other celebrity, tv and film professional in history. Well, almost. You see, it is a funny thing, but almost everyone who has distinguished themselves from the 20th century onwards has ended up on television at some time or another - as a result, they have ended up on IMDb, too. The IMDb Starmeter measures the number of people who click on a person's home page on IMDb and tallies up the global interest in that person. Then each person is ranked with respect to every other person. The result is an ordered list of whom, in the world, everyone is interested in.

Not only does the IMDb Starmeter rank people, but the home page of every person listed shows the change in interest in that person, week on week. This is a direct measure of fluctuations in traffic to that person's IMDb page.

Now, a couple of months ago, someone began a listing for my family because of a tv show we had done in the UK. Since then, I have noticed something I think is unusual: every week, our Starmeters have risen. Thus, for a full consecutive two month period, interest in reading our IMDb home pages, has increased week on week. In the last week, for instance, interest in my home page has risen 122% and interest in Ainan's home page has risen 182%. These are pretty big gains considering that in the last eight weeks or so, there have been gains each and every week of anything between 11% and 639%.

So, if you would like to check out our IMDb pages - which are being updated over time, with new credits and listings as and when they are approved, please take a look at the links below. If you would like to track them over time, just take a look every week or so. They are updated at the beginning of the week, US time.

(If you would like to learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged eight years and seven months, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, five years exactly, and Tiarnan, twenty-eight months, please go to:http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, the Irish, the Malays, Singapore, College, University, Chemistry, Science, genetics, left-handedness, precocity, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, wunderkind, wonderkind, genio, гений ребенок prodigy, genie, μεγαλοφυία θαύμα παιδιών, bambino, kind.

We are the founders of Genghis Can, a copywriting, editing and proofreading agency, that handles all kinds of work, including technical and scientific material. If you need such services, or know someone who does, please go to: http://www.genghiscan.com/ Thanks.IMDB is the Internet Movie Database for film and tv professionals.

If you would like to look at my IMDb listing for which another fifteen credits are to be uploaded, (which will probably take several months before they are accepted) please go to: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3438598/ As I write, the listing is new and brief - however, by the time you read this it might have a dozen or a score of credits...so please do take a look. My son, Ainan Celeste Cawley, also has an IMDb listing. His is found at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3305973/ My wife, Syahidah Osman Cawley, has a listing as well. Hers is found at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3463926/

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