This Is Good, Right?

I generally try to ignore this kind of stuff, but someone pointed out to me this morning that PR Squared was #11 on the 30-day rankings at PR Community List at PubSub. This was news to me.

According to the PubSub crew,

PubSub's Community Lists are miniature roadmaps to ... influential sites. They combine human expertise with LinkRanks, PubSub's method of comparing sites to one another by scrutinizing their links. A Community List tells you which sites to keep an eye on and which sites are leading the conversation from one day to the next.

So, the good news is we're in the top #20 for the past 30 days. Damn near top-10, which will impress Mom, at least.

Bad news is that I'll probably be a slave to this PubSub list from now on.

"Am I helping to 'lead the conversation' this month?"

Cursed ego.

Anyway, thanks for indulging this shameless bit of self-promotion. We'll move on quickly.

Mange On The Long Tail

Catching up on my late-night blog reading. When you track a gazillion interesting blogs, each of which post daily (or more often!), ya do tend to fall behind now and then.

On the plus side, a post from a week or two back is still kinda relevant, eh?

It ought to be when you are Jeff Jarvis, anyway. Jeffis a top blogger, the man behind the curtain at BuzzMachine. Jeff is also an unapologetic Howard Stern fan. So am I. ("All I want for Christmas is a Sirius radio," was my plea of 2005.)

So I was fascinated by Jeff's recent piece on the "Howard 100" news team. Jeff used his on-site experience to pontificate on the surge of navel-gazing going on in news rooms across America, but for me the work effort and production quality that's going into an "All Stern, All The Time" newscast speaks to the power of the Long Tail.

As Jeff says, "Is this news? Sure, it is. This is stuff that matters to Stern fans..."

Isn't that quintessential Long Tail thinking? - A niche of devotees create a profit zone for original creative works.

You don't need to be a Stern fan to find this to be a sexy concept.