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Claims to explain Page Rank

See also: http://www.markhorrell.com/seo/pagerank.html

Cameron Marlow: Sometime around the beginning of this year, I realized that I was encountering way too many sites to write an individual weblog post about each and every one

I decided to create a separate weblog just for the ephemeral sites that didn't deserve discussion.

via Matt

Excessive word count and worthless details are making it harder for people to extract useful information. The more you say, the more people tune out your message.

• Superfluous Warnings Are Hazardous
• removing half of a website's words will double the amount of information that users actually get.

I've always wondered why Canadaians, especially univerisy students, are not into blogging very much. Is it because they don't know enough about them, or they already are familiary, but not interested enough to start one.

Anyhow, I've launched a very simple directory for weblogs written by University of Toronto students and instructors as a way of encouraging more students to start blogging and to form a sort of community.

So here is uoftblogs.com, please submit your weblog if you study or teach at UofT.

Now I'm waiting for the university presidents. It's a group with a lot of potential.

I've seen the (smart community) reports; now show me the weblogs!