The problem is not that we are using the numbers, the problem is that we are using only numbers. We should develop and use other mechanisms of analyzing sites which stress on quality, on integrity with the vision and achievement of the purpose for which it was set up. Unless the sole aim of a website is to get thousands of hits the numbers will not do justice. The Oscars, Grammys, Pullitzers don’t look only at numbrs, they primarily look at quality and creativity.
In what I consider a response to the recent sabse bada blogger kaun controversy, Abhijit asks why the web and specifically the blogosphere uses quantitative standards for judging. Would any qualitative researcher worth his/her salt care to respond or better still, devise methods to judge blogs qualitatively?
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