Influence
: John Hawkins at Right Wing News has been digging through the Alexa ratings to find the top political bloggers. But even though Alexa is the only traffic measurement that cuts across all sites — which is a big issue for this new medium if we want to get attention from advertisers and media — it is imperfect, for it measures only those who happen to use the Alexa toolbar. Hawkins still wanted to try to rank influential political bloggers, so he switched to another — and, in some ways, more telling — measure: links. He went to Technorati, Daypop, Blogstreet, and the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem and counted how many links went to the top 100 political blogs on his list; he weeded out those that didn’t make the top 100 on at least 3 of the 4 measuring tools; he threw out the low score; and then he ranked the 29 influential political blogs left. (I’m flattered that you’ve put me there even though I don’t always write about politics.)
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