MaxxoMedia Digital Media and Entertainment Trends

Posted on June 13, 2007 – 7:03 am | in » Internet

Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media. The term “blog” is a portmanteau of the words web and log (Web log). “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
In May 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 71 million blogs.

There are many blog popularity-ranking services on the web, but unfortunately, they all rely on only one piece of data for their rankings. Either link popularity, RSS feeds or some sort of traffic-ranking service. To get a more accurate measurement picture all data from multiple sources need to combine. The top 25 Most Popular Blogs are ranked by a combination of RSS Subscribers from FeedBurner, Inbound Links from Yahoo Site Explore (entire site not including internal pages), Alexa Rank, and Compete and Quantcast U.S. Unique Monthly visitor data. Blogs that are only a part of a non-Blog site are not included (i.e. Google Blogs).

25 Most Popular Blogs

Logo	Rank	Name	Location (URL)
	1	Gizmodo	Gizmodo.com
	2	TMZ	TMZ.com
	3	engadget	engadget.com
	4	LifeHacker	LifeHacker.com
	5	HuffingtonPost	HuffingtonPost.com
	6	boingboing	boingboing.net
	7	PerezHilton	PerezHilton.com
	8	Gawker	Gawker.com
	9	Kotaku	Kotaku.com
	10	DailyKos	DailyKos.com
	11	TechCrunch	TechCrunch.com
	12	Defamer	Defamer.com
	13	Wonkette	Wonkette.com
	14	AutoBlog	AutoBlog.com
	15	ARSTechnica	ARSTechnica.com
	16	joystiq	joystiq.com
	17	AlterNet	AlterNet.org
	18	downloadsquad	downloadsquad.com
	19	CrooksandLiars	CrooksandLiars.com
	20	Mashable	Mashable.com
	21	GigaOM	GigaOM.com
	22	littlegreenfootballs	littlegreenfootballs.com
	23	PostSecret	postsecret.blogspot.com
	24	AListapart	AListapart.com
	25	ReadWriteWeb	ReadWriteWeb.com

Sphere: Related Content

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Stumble it!