Schoolworks one week later

CLONMEL -- We're clicking through web sites built by transition year students during a short course we ran on personalcasting. One thing that distinguished our programme from similar introductions to blogging--we did not (1) choreograph a link fest where we tried to elevate search engine placement of the students' blogs and (2) did not turn on the public notification of the aggregators which means our first efforts of publication did not inundate the summary pages of places like Daypop and Technorati.

During the same week, Lycos started a second push of Tripod blogs and Blacknight began advertising its blog hosting services through Google AdSense, among other places.

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Two pages of Flickr photos tagged from Schoolworks.
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Comments

[Liam Burke]

Strangely enough 14 out of the 15 students now appear on the front page of google, the exception being Patrick Murphy. Most of the other students actually hit the top spot.

Most of the blogs probably won’t be updated so they will eventually drift down the rankings. But it is fascinating though if you have a new product that you can get to the top in the space of one week by playing the system.

[Bernie Goldbach]

I think most of the students know their blogs remain for them to update. If there was a way we could offer training updates closer to their homes, they might hang with this blogging thing.