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Who’s Who in the Political Blogosphere?
June 03, 2009 10:00 PM
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: It’s crowded out there in the political blogosphere -- and there are as many ways to judge influence as there bloggers who stand ready to judge politicians.
But here’s an interesting tool I recently came across: From Wikio.com, it’s a ranking of political blogs -- emanating from everywhere from living rooms, mainstream media organizations, and the White House.
The rankings are compiled based on links from other blogs -- with extra weight given to blogs that rank higher via Wikio’s formulas, and based on how recently an item is published. Blog rolls aren’t taken into account, so only fresh postings impact the rankings. http://www.wikio.com/about-us
One of the intriguing aspects of this list is that it puts everyone in the same pot. The list has mainstream media blogs -- from ABC News, CNN, The New York Times, and others -- alongside well-known partisan bloggers -- Michelle Malkin, FireDogLake -- and even government-run bloggers, like WhiteHouse.gov’s.
We got a sneak peek at the latest rankings -- due to be published Friday -- below. It’s a fun list to analyze: Huffington Post has the top spot, with the liberal Center for American Progress’ Think Progress and the conservative National Review’s The Corner right behind.
My colleague Jake Tapper’s Political Punch blog also cracks the Top 10. The Note -- which launched as a blog in December, after serving only as a morning tipsheet before that -- is No. 30 (and climbing); George Stephanopoulos’ Bottom Line blog is No. 39, and the now-discontinued Political Radar blog is still No. 40, because of (presumably) older links to the site.
Here’s the Top 100:
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The Note is much better than the blabber on this list (and better than the decent reporting) as it is unbiased and does not promote any particular agenda. Facts are facts but most blogs are distortions of the truth. The Note attempts to get to the truth.
Posted by: Steven | Jun 4, 2009 10:01:29 AM
Ummmmm... you might not want to promote such an absurd ranking system that has massive and obvious flaws. Take this for example:
Hotair doesn't make last month or this months list.
According to the methodology of this flawed ranking system that means that Hot Air received far less and far less important links than whatever the hell "the slideshow" is.
Now... lets compare the traffic of Hot Air and the slideshow according to sitemeter (which both sites use).
Visitors for the slideshow today: 577
Visitors for Hot Air today: 296,439
Yea... please retract this posting and be careful not to use random ranking systems you find while stumbling around the internet in the future.
Posted by: College Politico | Jun 4, 2009 2:13:48 PM
Why was Hotair. left off the list?
Posted by: John | Jun 4, 2009 2:15:22 PM
As someone who's on that list, I can tell you it's completely worthless if HotAir isn't on it. It's bad enough that Oliver Willis is on it, let alone my blog.
Posted by: Jim Treacher | Jun 4, 2009 2:46:20 PM
That list is an embarassment. Not only is HotAir not on it, as much as I luv me some Treacher, he is mostly on Twitter now, and rarely updates. I see several other glaring mistakes.Where's Ace of Spades HQ? Take that mess down.
Posted by: di butler | Jun 4, 2009 3:58:52 PM
Yeah....it's kind of ridiculous that you don't have Hot Air or Ace of Spades HQ on your list. Like really ridiculous. For the left side of the equation, why no Ben Smith of Politico?
Posted by: yumyum | Jun 4, 2009 4:52:36 PM
"Hotair isn't that good of a blog. Lots of hatespeech and snottiness, not a lot of substance."
Like there's not hate a Huffpo or KOS. 'Good' is in the eye of the beholder. It's good to me. On my top 3.
Posted by: scott | Jun 4, 2009 5:01:35 PM
I call BS on this list. No Ace of Spades HQ in the top 100???? Really???
Posted by: CDR M | Jun 4, 2009 5:07:50 PM
Come on..I read many of these blogs on a regular basis, but none so often as Hot Air. How could it not be on the list?
Posted by: Priscilla | Jun 4, 2009 5:45:28 PM
You give Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs #31 but leave off Charles (Mini-Andrew Sullivan) Johnson's Little Green Footballs?
You gonna give him a stroke, man~! Good on ya!
Posted by: serr8d | Jun 4, 2009 6:01:30 PM
Pure,unadulterated,horse hockey.
Posted by: daryl | Jun 4, 2009 6:24:56 PM
Any list that doesn't include IMAO or Ace Of Spades is a crock.
Posted by: Noah Bawdy | Jun 4, 2009 6:28:52 PM
Ace of Spades belongs on the list, but then a lot of good blogs are missing. Good to see that the pony-tailed turncoat isn't listed but quite a few that he stabbed in the back are.
Posted by: Perseus | Jun 4, 2009 7:09:25 PM
Number five on this list is a man who actively promoted the theory that Bristol Palin is Trig Palin's REAL mother. Even though Bristol gave birth to her own child LESS than 9 months after Trig's birth.
As far as making a joke about that goes, let's just say that Mr. Sullivan's firsthand knowledge of the female reproductive system is a bit out of date, OK?
Posted by: Russ from Winterset | Jun 4, 2009 7:30:33 PM
Senior Political Reporter? You go 100 deep with no mention of Ace of Spades? That's, uh, some mighty fine reporting their Ricky.
Posted by: Terry | Jun 4, 2009 11:06:36 PM
See, Jim Treacher? You should have used one of the name changes suggested at Ace of Spades and you would have finished higher. And I guess Charles hasn't evolved enough to make the list.
Posted by: andy | Jun 4, 2009 11:19:29 PM
Wow...no LGF? Folks, he's the guy who used Microsoft Word--single-handedly debunking the Bush TANG memo fraud perpetrated by CBS.
No Hot Air? Ed Morrissey, Michelle, Allahpundit dominate my RSS feed refresh mania.
Posted by: RB | Jun 5, 2009 7:40:03 AM
how could you leave off THE RETORT?!?
Posted by: nancz | Jun 5, 2009 10:28:14 AM
"Hotair isn't that good of a blog. Lots of hatespeech and snottiness [...]"
Please provide a single example of what you think constitutes "hatespeech" at HotAir. Go ahead, we'll wait.
Posted by: Alex | Jun 5, 2009 11:39:02 AM
Love it or hate it, Hot Air has the traffic. To leave it off is at best sloppy, and at worst disingenuous.
Posted by: Mike | Jun 5, 2009 12:22:53 PM
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