BlogCode - Day One

It's been 24 hours since we launched BlogCode, a new weblog recommendation service based on the StoryCode model...

As noted in the launch post at Bloggerheads: Blogcode.com, not unlike its parent site Storycode.com, is designed to provide reading recommendations based on aspects such as style, delivery and content. We have, however, taken great care to make the coding process specific to weblogs, but universal enough to cover the typical aspects of most weblogs. The result is a blog directory that lets you find blogs similar to the one(s) you enjoy, without limiting yourself to subject-based searches on Technorati or endless journeys through blogroll after blogroll. Basically, it provides anyone who enjoys weblogs with a fast-track to similar reading experiences. It will also be useful to bloggers themselves, by helping them to attract a suitable readership and/or helping them to find other bloggers that they may wish to network with.

We started with 156 weblogs in the database, and 24 hours later, we had over 500.

Early posts of note came from Scobleizer, Kevin 2.0, qwghlm.co.uk and Murky.

Some early adopters expressed disappointment that they didn't have any strong (i.e. over 80%) matches yet, but to this we say:

1. Be thankful that you are relatively unique... so far.

2. Because as that database grows, the likelihood of a strong match grows with it.

Even if you are one-in-a-million, you have to remember that there are over a billion users of the world wide web... this means that (statistically, at least) there are over a thousand people out there who are also one-in-a-million.

:o)

We have some new tools and widgets we hope to be adding soon; meantime the priority is maintaining steady growth of the database and correcting/addressing any errors/issues that pop up during beta-testing.

Tim Ireland