A little ego boost to start the morning
While following the trail of conversations that have erupted in the wake of Stephen Downes comments about the K12 Online Conference, I encountered this post on the Dangerously Irrelevant blog.
Scott shows how his blog ranks among some of the well known blogs in the EdTech world. Can I just say that I’m glad I’m not the only one egotistical enough to want to look up that sort of thing from time to time? Heh. Here’s the list as Scott put it together:
- 1,804 – Weblogg-ed (4,761 links from 849 blogs)
- 4,745 – 2 Cents Worth (1,793 links from 436 blogs)
- 7,734 – Cool Cat Teacher Blog (743 links from 298 blogs)
- 7,899 – Moving at the Speed of Creativity (1,287 links from 293 blogs)
- 10,372 – Learning Now (520 links from 234 blogs)
- 17,459 – EduBlog Insights (393 links from 145 blogs)
- 19,355 – Education/Technology (314 links from 132 blogs)
- 20,965 – The Savvy Technologist (398 links from 123 blogs)
- 26,142 – The Thinking Stick (367 links from 101 blogs)
- 27,930 – Ed-Tech Insider (263 links from 95 blogs)
- 28,288 – Blue Skunk Blog (296 links from 94 blogs)
- 33,355 – TechLearning Blog (205 links from 80 blogs)
- 36,732 – Around the Corner (138 links from 73 blogs)
- 44,201 – The Learning Circuits Blog (90 links from 61 blogs)
- 59,698 – The Strength of Weak Ties (86 links from 46 blogs)
- 64,353 – Tuttle SVC (125 links from 43 blogs)
- 116,125 – Dangerously Irrelevant (76 links from 25 blogs)
So of course, I had to look up Teach42. Rank: 16,160 (324 links from 149 blogs It’s interesting, while I don’t post on here nearly as much as I used to, because of my work with Discovery Education I get to spend more time face to face with people. Since I usually send people to the blog for resources, I’m guessing that must be helping my numbers in some way.
So there’s my ego boost for the morning. Number 6 on a totally inaccurate list of completely irrelevant numbers 
According to the Business Opportunities weblog, Teach42 is worth about $57,000. Of course, that assumes that I even own it anymore since it was snatched up in a corporate takeover. But I gotta tell you, if i could sell Teach42 for that much money, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Heck, I can always start another blog and Baby is gonna need a college education some day!
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I like what you said — number 6 on a totally inaccurate list of completely irrelevant numbers! That is true.
Of course in the abscence of any other numbers, people do look at this. Congratulations!
(I think you have an excellent blog.)
Vicki Davis
10/31/2006
Sorry – I pip you. I’m at 13,429 at the moment
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/http%3A%2F%2Fedu.blogs.com%2Fedublogs
You’re right about the ego boost, though!
Ewan McIntosh
10/31/2006
Blogging requires hard work that often goes unrecognized. We have to get our psychoemotional boosts where we can. I get a rush everytime someone leaves me a comment on a post!
Scott McLeod
10/31/2006
Steve, I’m with you. If someone were to offer me $84,681.00 (what Around the Corner is “worth”), I’d take it in a heartbeat.
Problem is, no one is going to offer that much without the goose that lays the golden eggs…and for the goose, those golden eggs are just a lot of effort with little payoff.
Well, so much for THAT analogy.
Take care and keep up the great work,
Miguel Guhlin
Miguel Guhlin
10/31/2006
[...] Yesterday I posted whimsically that that I would sell of my blog in a heartbeat if I could actually get even a fraction of what one website ‘estimates’ it’s worth. That got me thinking though. When I worked at my last school, I was extraordinarily careful about making sure I never named where I was working or spoke negatively about it. Even when I felt I had justifiable reason, I didn’t want to be the latest on the SimplyFired blog. [...]
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