Frequently Posted Sites

March 13, 2009 5:25 PM

I've noticed that Vanity Fair articles and Boston.com's Big Picture are posted regularly to MetaFilter. Are there other sites (besides news sites and YouTube) that are linked to as frequently?
posted by sciurus to Etiquette/Policy at 5:25 PM (61 comments total)

The New York Times.
posted by GuyZero at 5:33 PM on March 13, 2009

Although, arguable, Vanity Fair and Boston.com are news sites, so maybe you could explain the difference there.
posted by GuyZero at 5:33 PM on March 13, 2009

I mean, if there's an main article in Vanity Fair, or a new Big Picture it seems guaranteed to end up on the Blue. Not every main article from the NYT, or even Boston.com, ends up on the Blue.
posted by sciurus at 5:37 PM on March 13, 2009

don't despair, you can post them first soon if you are vigilant!
posted by dawson at 5:37 PM on March 13, 2009

Salon.com, Huffington Post, Wired, Wikipedia.
posted by Science! at 5:42 PM on March 13, 2009

Fark.
posted by gman at 5:43 PM on March 13, 2009

Things that were first posted on BoingBoing and Kottke show up a fair amount, too.
posted by ocherdraco at 5:43 PM on March 13, 2009

YouTube.
posted by UbuRoivas at 5:46 PM on March 13, 2009

ocherdraco: "Things that were first posted on BoingBoing and Kottke show up a fair amount, too."

Yeah, but give BoingBoing some slack, cause often enough stuff that was posted intelligently, with lots of supporting or opposing links, here is posted with vague headlines or a misunderstanding of content over there soon after. That's when I start login to BoingBoing. Oddly enough it's also when letters like A, and E, and sometimes Y stop working on my keyboard.
posted by Science! at 5:47 PM on March 13, 2009

oh, damn
posted by UbuRoivas at 5:48 PM on March 13, 2009

Does the MeFi data dump provide information on how often certain sites are linked to on the Blue?
posted by sciurus at 5:51 PM on March 13, 2009

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wondermeptied that for you.
posted by UbuRoivas at 5:53 PM on March 13, 2009

I'm making no value judgments, just noting the occurrence.
posted by ocherdraco at 5:53 PM on March 13, 2009

wondermeptied?
posted by Science! at 5:55 PM on March 13, 2009

The New Yorker.
posted by Miko at 5:55 PM on March 13, 2009

wondermeptied?

you must have missed this.
posted by UbuRoivas at 5:57 PM on March 13, 2009

No I saw and commented in that thread, still what the hell is wondermeptied?

Back on topic: what other non-news site are linked here frequently? Kick-ass awesome sites that I didn't know existed.

Also theonion.com though Cortex has been managing to delete them with the speed and force of an angry god. I approve of his angry god-like smiting powers, they're often lame and single links, but it does get linked a lot.
posted by Science! at 6:05 PM on March 13, 2009

Here's the link to the original wonderemptied comment by Wendell.
posted by ocherdraco at 6:25 PM on March 13, 2009

rest assured that smiting the onion brings tears to his eyes.
posted by UbuRoivas at 6:25 PM on March 13, 2009 [1 favorite]

Geocities. Oh and the internet. Man, I see a lot of links to the internet here.
posted by DU at 6:30 PM on March 13, 2009 [1 favorite]

I had an onion FPP deleted once :(
posted by empath at 6:31 PM on March 13, 2009

New Yorker, sometimes I read an article there, and it is obvious that it will wind up as an FPP.
posted by paisley henosis at 6:32 PM on March 13, 2009

too, many, comma,
posted by paisley henosis at 6:33 PM on March 13, 2009

Just don't post any shit from The Onion. Cortex says "NOOOO"
posted by pianomover at 6:36 PM on March 13, 2009

Stumbling, Bumbling Sled Dog: 'Sorry, This Is My First Iditarod'
posted by UbuRoivas at 6:42 PM on March 13, 2009 [1 favorite]

MetaFilter.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 6:42 PM on March 13, 2009

McSweeney's used to get linked quite a lot, but usually the mods would delete McSweeney's posts pretty much on sight.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:07 PM on March 13, 2009

Someone help me out here, there's this online magazine that used to be linked fairly regularly here then it came out that it was several of the magazines employees that were posting it, and then there was a big dust up on metatalk about it and one of the higher-ups posted in it. Also, I remember that said site had this awful paper-magazine-ish feel to it that made it almost unbearable. Anyone remember what that was?
posted by dead cousin ted at 7:52 PM on March 13, 2009

the New York Post?
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:04 PM on March 13, 2009

I dunno, but here's The 11 Weirdest George W. Bush Paintings via blort.meepzorp.com.

HTH.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:09 PM on March 13, 2009 [1 favorite]

What's weird about that?
posted by gman at 8:30 PM on March 13, 2009

I see your George W. Bush paintings and raise you an Alex Gray Obama.
posted by Sailormom at 8:40 PM on March 13, 2009

head asplode
posted by ocherdraco at 8:53 PM on March 13, 2009

cracked.com does those lists that get posted a lot.
rathergood.com has had about 80 of their animations posted.
the fish in my pants gets posted like every day.
posted by carsonb at 9:06 PM on March 13, 2009

New Scientist
The Guardian
posted by kuujjuarapik at 9:08 PM on March 13, 2009

The Huffington Post. I say that because there seems to be someone who has a bug up his ass about that news site, which I admit I've never read and probably won't start.
posted by koeselitz at 9:29 PM on March 13, 2009

Jezebel.
posted by batmonkey at 10:00 PM on March 13, 2009

Smashing Magazine and Ze Frank are also frequently linked.
posted by netbros at 10:17 PM on March 13, 2009

HARD STATISTICS MOTHERFUCKER, YOU CAN HAS THEM

None of this vacillating bullshit about shit you think we link to a lot. What do we actually link to, with what frequency, and with what delta since last measurement? The answers are found in DATA.

Hopefully Andy Baio can run his script again as he did in 2006 and 2002.
posted by blasdelf at 1:49 AM on March 14, 2009 [4 favorites]

Andy Baio gave me pinkeye.
posted by Gunner's Mate 1st Class Phillip Asshole at 2:03 AM on March 14, 2009

Dark Roasted Blend

EastSouthWestNorth, in many threads about China.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:25 AM on March 14, 2009

Thank you for setting me up the bomb, blasdelf.
posted by sciurus at 5:10 AM on March 14, 2009

Items from The Morning News sidebar seem to show up on the blue a lot.
posted by gnomeloaf at 7:02 AM on March 14, 2009

Anybody say The Atlantic yet? Flickr?

What about those SomethingAwful/Worth1000/etc. Photoshop contests?
posted by box at 8:34 AM on March 14, 2009

Someone help me out here, there's this online magazine that used to be linked fairly regularly here then it came out that it was several of the magazines employees that were posting it, and then there was a big dust up on metatalk about it and one of the higher-ups posted in it.

Man, I guess it speaks to how much random crap we've had to deal with over the years that I can't even remember which thing you're talking about. There was some weirdness with The Escapist, I remember, is it that? And there was some guy pulling off a bunch of bullshit related to Vice, I think. And, you know, a bunch of other things. Heh.

Hopefully Andy Baio can run his script again as he did in 2006 and 2002.

Oh man, I'd forgotten about that; I was just about to start cranking out a version of that myself, but if waxy has all the gear in place that'd be silly. I'll give him a poke, see if he wants to run it again.

I like that little "NEW!" label next to the youtube line item. New indeed: the first youtube link on mefi was in August, 2005, and links didn't start showing up in any volume until January 2006. I wrote a script a couple years ago to spit out a cheesy little graph of how many FPP's contain at least one Youtube link, by month.

Here is an up-to-date run of that cheesy graph. (I should really start outputing google chart urls for this stuff.) You can see that it took about a year and a half for Youtube linkage to sort of reach its stride; as of May, 2007, youtube density had pretty much hit a ceiling.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:39 AM on March 14, 2009 [1 favorite]

What is it about The Onion that makes Metafilter mods cry?
posted by pianomover at 9:41 AM on March 14, 2009

cortex: And, you know, a bunch of other things.

I think he's talking about Times Online.

Which I linked to once, but that was to The Bugle, which is pretty much the greatest podcast in the entire world, as far as I'm concerned, so that certainly wasn't an SEO-thing.

Where's that money you promised me, Rupert Murdoch!
posted by Kattullus at 9:58 AM on March 14, 2009 [1 favorite]

In the beginning, Metafilter was newly formed, and the people of Metafilter were an innocent people, full of enthusiasms. And they did go forth, and find that which was funny and new, and place it on the front page of Metafilter, and it was good.

The land of Metafilter prospered, and new peoples came to live there and till its blue fields. These new peoples, full too of enthusiasms, went forth and found that which was funny and new to them, and they too placed those things upon the front page of Metafilter.

But the older people were shocked; that which the new peoples had brought was not new. The people lost a third portion of their enthusiasms, and cried out.

And yet more new peoples came to Metafilter, and brought with them their enthusiasms, and these too were laid out in the blue fields, and these too were not new. The old people, and the older people too, saw that these things were not even, if you wanted to really kind of get down to brass tacks about it here, even all that funny, really, what with the headline being the whole joke and after that it just sort of keeps making that one joke over and over again, yea, even unto five or six paragraphs.

The people lost another third portion of their enthusiasms, and cried out again. And, yea, they were starting to get pretty sarcastic about it, too.

And the eldest saw that the people were suffering. And spoke, saying, "Hear me, o my people: this shit is tired," though perhaps not in those exact words. And the people rejoiced, and there was peace in the land for a time.

Then came the dark times of McSweeneys, and of Youtube, and the people rent their clothes and basically the whole thing started over again, but what do you do. Yea: what do you do.

And so it was recorded, and passed down from old to new, that if you're going to link to the Onion, it had better be a pretty fucking superlative piece of work because, come on, ffs. Amen.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:05 AM on March 14, 2009 [15 favorites]

I think he's talking about Times Online.

Oh, hey, yeah. That too.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:07 AM on March 14, 2009

there's this online magazine that used to be linked fairly regularly here then it came out that it was several of the magazines employees that were posting it

I think he's talking about Times Online.

That was just one guy posting stuff though, so I don't think Times Online is the right one.
posted by ssg at 10:35 AM on March 14, 2009

zombo.com
posted by blue_beetle at 12:10 PM on March 14, 2009 [1 favorite]

What if The Onion posted a cartoon about a guy taking a crap and his cat walked in?
posted by pianomover at 7:01 PM on March 14, 2009 [1 favorite]

Cortex, Thank you for setting me at your feet and imparting the tribe's songline of The Onion.
posted by pianomover at 7:04 PM on March 14, 2009

What if The Onion posted a cartoon about a guy taking a crap and his cat walked in?

I don't rightly know why, but I liked that post. Made me remember familiar times with former cats.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:31 PM on March 14, 2009

zombo.com

Someone made a fairly serious "history of the internet" timeline a while back, detailing arapnet, Netscape 3.0, 56k modems, all the milestones, and they put zombo.com in that timeline. Absolutely historic. Someone should link to it once a year simply because it still exists, or if the Onion mentions it, link to that.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:42 PM on March 14, 2009 [2 favorites]

The Daily Mail, sadly... It's a terrible that the Daily Hate become one of the main ways the UK is filtered to the web.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 7:49 AM on March 15, 2009

Not directly linked to but getting a via about a dozen times every year for many years now, is Arts & Letters Daily.
posted by tellurian at 8:26 PM on March 15, 2009

blasdelf, my fine motherfucker, I assume that the thingy you posted is extracted from a survey of all the links on the site, not just those contained in the FPPs. I wonder, and doubtless there are other motherfuckers who also wonder, if it is feasible to survey only the links posted in FPPs, thus providing a more refined database for the motherfucking user base. Still, this is an excellent start, so from one motherfucker to another, thanks a motherfucking million.
posted by Mister_A at 10:38 AM on March 16, 2009

Here's where blasdelf explains his methodology, Mister_A.
posted by Kattullus at 1:02 PM on March 16, 2009

No, that's where waxy explains his methodology in generating the stats to which blasdelf was helpfully and enthusiastically linking.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:07 PM on March 16, 2009

There's probably some Onion.com story that contains the secret of taters but we're all just not seeing it here. Because we refuse to.
posted by kingbenny at 2:51 PM on March 16, 2009