Aug 31, 2006
Curious blogosphere Yale posts imply online smut?
This is utterly bizarre to me, and whether it reflects a mistake on Technorati’s behalf or the oddities and eccentricities of those blogging about Yale, I have no idea. I found myself looking at the Technorati tag page for the tag “Yale” and found some really weird results. To see if it was a fluke, I looked at the pages for the other ivy league schools, and for “ivy league.” Brown was muddled by Brown of FEMA fame, but there were some obvious “related tags” there: “Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Ivy League.”
Perfectly sensible. Princeton and Dartmouth were the same, just linking to the other schools for their “related tags.” Those who bothered to write about Harvard were more concerned with other pursuits, like video games, music videos, and TV. No matter. Yet Yale…? These are the actual tags as of 8/31/06, go check for yourself: “Sex, Books, Sexblogs, Publishers, Novels, Erotica, Sexual Revolution, Lesbian, Bisexual, Publishing.”
Huh? This could be a case of a tiny sample size skewing results (relatively few blogs post about Yale and other things, perchance), I have no idea. It’s really strange. Just goes to show the sort of weird online presence you can get unofficially…
Could be the just-arrived gossip blog http://www.ivygateblog.com whose masthead reads:
IvyGate, the Ivy League blog, covers news, gossip, sex, sports and more at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.
Eric
That’s an interesting hypothesis which I will have to look into further some time… maybe drop IvyGate an e-mail and ask if they’re been tag-bombing yale.