Monday, August 01, 2005

Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500Top Blogs

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Feedster Introduces

List Of Top 500 Blogs

Chris Richardson |
Contributing Writer | 2005-08-16

With the exploding popularity of all things blogs,
keeping track of which ones are the most popular can be difficult
task. It's been estimated that there are 30-80 thousand new blogs
created daily, with 500-900 thousand* new posts being made as
well. With this bulk of information being delivered daily,
finding which blogs are considered popular, unless you have
a list to guide you.

With that in mind, Feedster just introduced the Feedster Top 500 list, which
measures just what it says it does: the top 500 blogs in terms of popularity.
According to their press release, Feedster measure popularity by:

...taking into account factors such as the number of inbound links
over time; if the blog has been recently updated; and the elimination
of obvious non-blogs that have appeared on other top-blog lists.

Using these methods, Feedster derives its list, which is refreshed monthly.
The list available to users now currently has the following top 10:

1. Engadget (54,380 links)

2. deviantART.com (53,788 links)

3. Boing Boing (36,229 links)

4. Albino Blacksheep (27,898 links)

5. Daily Kos (23,150 links)

6. The News is NowPublic.com (18,593 links)

7. Fleshbot (14,876 links)

8. Gizmodo (13,616 links)

9. Michelle Malkin (11,613 links)

10. PostSecret (11,355 links)

However, some have taken issue with Feedster's ranking methods.
In Danny's write-up, he seems to take issue with the SearchEngine
Watch blog not being present and not because of egotistical reasons,
either. It seems Feedster may be having some indexing issues with
SEW and because of that, may not represent recently sold property a
s well as it should be. Read Danny's post for further explanations.

*These numbers were taken from a recent Mark Cuban BlogMaverick post.

Feedster Top 500

Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most
interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see wha
t people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of
interest to you on a regular basis, and to discover new voices
in the Blogosphere.

No list is perfect and, unfortunately, we managed to not list several
prominent blogs that should have been in the August Feedster
Top 500. And our guess is that they will be in the September Feedster
Top 500. But for right now here they are along with their approximate
ranking:

* Top 20 -- Stephen's Web by Stephen Downes
* Top 50 -- Jason Kottke
* Top 75 -- Search Engine Watch