Comments on: Top-Ten List

By: tommaso dorigo

tommaso dorigo — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:26:21 +0000

Hmmm I meant stupefy… I do not really know whether your blog supefies or not, whatever that means.
T.

By: William.W

William.W — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:23:46 +0000

What a funny result!

I don’t suppose the number of inbound links increasing could be the fact that dailykos.com linked to cosmivariance.com? There was a main page story on 3/26 that linked here, and a couple of recommended diaries whose authors had cosmicvariance.com on their blogroll.

Hell, that’s how I found the site originally, back when the site was younger. Been lurking ever since~

By: Keeping the Variance down « A Quantum Diaries Survivor

Keeping the Variance down « A Quantum Diaries Survivor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:05:18 +0000

[...] posts on those shortly), I will just paste here a comment I left at cosmic variance, where Sean boasts about his (really, really good) blog ranking fourth in a certain wishful ranking: Okay, there seems [...]

By: tommaso dorigo

tommaso dorigo — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:41:15 +0000

Hi Sean,

at the risk of sounding jealous, envious, and green with livor, I have to say I do not rate your blog as awesome. It does not supefy, it does not startle, it does not cause shots of adrenaline. It has many pluses, of course – otherwise it would not be where it is, in the list above or in other ranking systems around.

And you should be happy about that. A physics blog cannot, _cannot_, be a top ranking one. Beware. If you get there, you have mutated to something you might not have liked in the past. What are you, a guy with an opinion on everything ? A star writer ? Certainly both, but you first and foremost are a scientist, and if you forget your roots it gets dangerous.

Just my two pence… and congratulations.
Cheers,
T.

By: Albatross

Albatross — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:39:21 +0000

I find these results disturbing, I had no idea the economy was so bad. But there must be a lot of unemployed pudgy white guys living in their parents’ basements. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for lines 2, 3, 6, and 9.

By: Badger3k

Badger3k — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:03:02 +0000

Well, I see it was a bug, but it could happen. Racists and mental patients need to sleep sometime.

By: victor

victor — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:18:38 +0000

Maybe the fourth place is related to the fact that, according to their statistics, your number of inbound links raised from 613 on 03/25 to 4863 on 03/26. A 790% increase (!?).

By: MathandPhysics1

MathandPhysics1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:49:34 +0000

Perhaps a better word would have been “difficult”, I wouldn’t want to mislead anyone about the nature of the article. It really is about math.

By: MathandPhysics1

MathandPhysics1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:47:39 +0000

Math is really hard

http://www.newcomensengine.com/2008/03/new-math.html

By: Justin K.

Justin K. — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:14:58 +0000

You’ll notice “Cosmic Variance” is on the sidebar of:

http://malcolmpollack.com/

However things turn out, keep in mind President Bush’s remark,

“Information is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it’s also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.”—Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007……http://www.slate.com/id/76886/pagenum/7

If I were a physicist and able to talk like one, I’d be very careful of what I wished for.