Actually, it’s not just geeks who will find the new Link Count numbers from PubSub interesting, but geeks will have fun arguing over a new dataset. Read all the details on Bob Wyman’s blog post. news.com.com was 34th in the top 100 for yesterday (March 31, 2005), with 161 sites linking 518 times. Thanks to each one. Only glitch is on the Out-links reckoning… because News.com sends its external links through a redirect, it’s difficult (at least) for a third-party to “see” these links as external. There are lots of outbound links, in nearly every single story published, but I guess that’s the price paid for tracking the volume and direction of links. Also, PubSub (for understandable reasons) is only tracking links IN the feeds, it seems, and News.com feeds include a short description, not the body text.
Thanks to Bob and PubSub for sharing this data. We can all discuss what it means, but useful to have another metric to triangulate on what’s going on.