Online news/magazine site Salon recently added a Blog Roundup section. The page is powered by Technorati and lists the most blogged about Salon articles in the past 48 hours. There is also a small feature box on the home page listing the most-blogged articles (screen capture right). In addition, each article now features a link at the end to a Technorati cosmos search for the article's URL.
Salon is not utilizing a standard TrackBack system to determine who is linking to the articles, they rely on Technorati for the data.
The new function serves as a sort of "most-popular" or "most-read" articles feature that many news sites have, except with a blogger focus.
Visitor Comments
How'd they do that? We're putting together a news source and this would be a really cool feature.....
Posted by: Jake Parrillo | May 24, 2005 11:32 AM
Information on a basic implementation, i.e. putting the link at the bottom of the page can be found in Technorati's documentation:
http://www.technorati.com/developers/help/cosmos.html
I know you could dig around a bit and find some code to pull based upon a ranking.
Posted by: Josh Hallett | May 24, 2005 11:59 AM