Technorati, Authority, and Getting Names Right
TechCrunch (and others) posts about Technorati's new authority feature which filters results by the number of inlinks to a post. Rubel discusses the notion of authority and why the use of inlinks as a proxy may dilute the meaning of the term. I'm with Steve on this one. It also breaks a fundamental principle of mine for interface design: name things for what they are, not for what they are used for. There is no shame in having a filter for inlinks. A user might use this filter as a proxy for authority, but by labelling it as an inlink filter, there is no confusion as to what it does. This is why we have hammers and not picture-hook-attachment-devices. The flip side of this principle is that if you come up with a better model of authority, then you can't use the label on the web page as an abstraction of that functionality.
I have to add that, under Linux/Firefox, the interface is not that great - flickering and glitchy.
I am still unable to understand how people with websites have thousands of authorities.
Can anyone throw light on this??
Posted by: Amarnath | January 18, 2008 at 01:27 AM
I am still unable to understand how people with websites have thousands of authorities.
Can anyone throw light on this??
Posted by: Amarnath | January 18, 2008 at 01:40 AM
iam new to tecnorati , could you please help me how to get increase my authority
Posted by: knev1510rose | February 01, 2008 at 09:36 AM