Why Rate Articles ?

Tell the vendor.

From the stat­ist­ics I can see that a num­ber of vendors read this blog reg­u­larly. In par­tic­u­lar, when I men­tion cer­tain key words I notice that the com­mer­cial blog mon­it­or­ing net­works start to hit the site to report back to com­pan­ies about the “social net­work­ing mar­kets”. It is one of scary parts of blog­ging know­ing that “they” are watching.

From the con­tact I receive from mar­ket­ing people I know that they take the art­icles ser­i­ously and read your com­ments to determ­ine if you agree with me. By rat­ing the the art­icles you have a chance to show the vendor whether you think the art­icle is import­ant or whether I got it wrong. Reminder: I write on top­ics that interest me — you won’t get journ­al­ism here (Although good journ­al­ism is hard to find.…..).

Show our Community what matters

I also hope it would provide inform­a­tion to other people who read the art­icles. They can then judge the qual­ity of an art­icle, or whether the author (yep, that’s me) is a crackpot.

Some Technical Information

The rat­ing sys­tem is designed to with­stand a cer­tain level of abuse. It uses cook­ies, IP Address, User Agent and other inform­a­tion to try to ensure only a single vote per per­son. Hopefully that is enough.