Who Are The Top Tech Bloggers?

Michael Masnick and Mike Masnick from Techdirt are the same person, putting his combined score at 65.

Boy, this headline is going to invoke much subjectivity. I remember the saying: “there are lies, damn lies, and then statistics.”

Arrington’s going to need a new hat, I think he just grew a size or two…

Very interesting data, but you should probably merge some of the entries which are coming from the same person (and really the same place as well).

The first the jumps out at me is Jacqui Cheng, you have her Ars frontpage stories and Ars blog (infinite loop) stories listed as two separate entries.

I might point out that #34 and #39 are in fact the same person, and that just might put them at #7 combined

Title should be called “Who Are The Top Tech Bloggers With The Most Headlines?”

Charles, MG: I will merge and re-compile. Stay tuned.

3 out of the top 4! Very impressive

No worries Henry, the dual listing is kind of cool. Like being nominated for two Oscars in one year.

there are at least three example of authors appearing twice. The ones mentioned above, as well as Caroline McCarthy at CNET who is on the list three time. Looks like Henry’s recalculating totals to strip out splits for authors of multiple blogs.

What I’d find interesting is data about how often they post, keywords that come up in those posts, and so on. I suppose that’s a little harder to do, but might be valuable for new authors, advertisers, and people wondering what the hot button topics consistently are once the fads have faded into the background.

Very interesting compilation. In this case, I guess ‘top’ means most frequently quoted on TechMeme. At NewsCred, we’re collecting metrics so that we can determine lists of the top news sources as well as top journalists (both mainstream/bloggers), but using credibility as our criterion. We want to highlight writers and sources based on quality, rather than popularity or frequency of posts.

We just launched our Alpha, so the dataset is very limited, but in terms of sources, the Economist and Techcrunch (go figure!) came out on top this week.

Boy, if you could post that list as OPML, that would be a service!

@Alan I imagine you are probably referring to the TC list, but the NewsCred ‘Most Credible’ lists for both top writers and top sources will be syndicated weekly in all formats.

Quantity is not quality

Great post…..but I wish there were links to each site.

i’m going directly to twitter and adding all of them….if they use it (…..and don’t constantly post about what they just ate for breakfast or when they have terrible gas.)

i’m danlondon on twitter.

Yeah, we need to be talking more about signal to noise ratio.

Wonder how well Om would’ve done sans heart problems? He’s still #11 despite being on a seriously reduced workload most of this year.

So is Duncan gonna be sacked?

Can’t help but think it would have been a good idea for Techcrunch to have given the data to someone else to publish. Though I’m sure it’s accurate (you are always on TM) it comes across as backslapping rather than analysis.

OK I just recompiled this list a bit. Also, for those authors in multiple publications, they are still listed twice in the list. Sorry, MG!

Paul: quantity != quality. However, since making TechMeme is a recognition of quality, making lots of quality things is pretty impressive.

Title should be “How are the top US tech bloggers”…

Nice list. Predictably straight on to Techmemememe…

Eric
given I don’t live in the US and I’m on that list: no it shouldn’t.

So where are Pete Cashmore, Drama 2.0, Joshua Porter..? Am I the only guy who thinks they’re big?

That’s okay Henry, I assume you’re planning something more robust and interactive with links for CrunchBase which is why you can’t just merge us multis together. I’ll always be #8 in my mind.

Nico, according to our data:

Cashmore — no posts on Techmeme in 2008.
Drama 2.0 — no author, so not on the list.
Joshua Porter — 12 posts in 2008.

When I hear “top,” I don’t think of frequency. I think of quality and the influence of that person’s contributions across the community at large. We’re in a quantity-obsessed moment in the blogosphere, and it’s not going to last much longer. The “blogger burnout” effect is not to be ignored. It’s just not a sustainable way of life for human beings. Drafting is an important part of the editorial process. How about we value the folks who do that and come out with well-thought reports in the end?

I appreciate your understanding, MG

first off, it’s not quantity but quality that counts.

second, i have no proof that mike arrington is actually writing his articles. in my opinion he just picks a subject and leaves it to one of his underpaid intern copywriters.

put a webcam in mike’s office if you dare.

Hmm … do I hear an echo?

Could it be that Techmeme is the most amazing judge of bloggers in the universe?

Or could it be that some blogs are over-represented in their secret algorithm and all writers of those blogs benefit?

you know what is cool at least… calacanis is not in the list.

MG
you should see it this way: you’re on there twice because you’re twice as good

30: the headlines are based on links in, so there is a quality factor, and no, Michael doesn’t outsource his writing, he does it all himself, if you check the site you’ll see others (not on this list) writing under their own names

Surely the thing to do is to get it coded to update automatically

Frank that is actually a good thing.

In many cases if you are on the list, there is a good chance people don’t even bother subscribing to your blog as they will find anything good you write on Techmeme.

there are other tech blogs besides, tech crunch?!@# and they are being recognized by TC??!!@@## Is there a good reason for that or are we just being nice to commoners now coz it is 34 and half weeks to Xmas?

Gabe “Techmeme” Rivera (:love:) Techcrunch= BS handmade Algorithm

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1 Michael Arrington TechCrunch 207

whyarewenotsurprised

I love data like this - can’t wait to see the actual live data when it’s up and running

Matt

Mike A. is the most read and influential blogger in the tech industry right now.

Good work Mike and the Techcrunch team!

@newssweb
Dude, Calicanis is tied for 97th. He’s on the this.

@duncan - fair enough. thank ya.

I think this list is scued. You have some old timers there, but fresh new blood of social median networking is not to be found!

I think Michael is doing a really good job recently following the blogosphere developments. Maybe you guys should take his signal.

I would be interested in seeing the median number of links each post generated and the median time each post actually stays on Techmeme.

I think some of these “top” tech bloggers are riding on their reputation, not their current readership, tech knowledge, credibility, or influence.

Does Gabe still live at Michael’s house? I’m just asking…

hats off to those of us who have no need for a last name

Matthew
Arn
Ernesto
Karl
Nick
and me

i hope i didn’t leave anyone off

so strange. i wonder what one has to do to have their last name left off

fred

The blog listed for me is wrong, which makes me wonder if I’m double counted for two blogs or not. Tech Talk With Dean Takahashi was my blog through Feb. 26. And after that, I have been with VentureBeat.

Must be a severe lack of real news.

Shouldn’t this be called ‘The Top Tech Echo List’?

Techmeme, another M$ backed, biased news source, like Techcrunch and digg.
Dont’ believe me?
No news source at all covers 50 articles from mary jo foley, M$ bitch, none!

Very appropiate list. This shouldn´t be a tech blog´s initiative, and the quantity of publications says nothing. What a lack of seriousness.

Honestly, this list is perfectly honest about not being a completely objective and infallible measurement, but it is still an interesting look at trends in the blogosphere and there’s nothing wrong with using various methods (however flawed) to organize the vastness of the intarwebz.

Michael is the king.

Fred: not sure myself why some names are chopped off.

Dean: you are being double-counted for the two blogs. I’ll see what I can do about that.

An absolute joke. I could go on about how people like Om aren’t even in the Top 5 but this list is based on 2 parts bullshit, 1 part crap.

This authors of this list are obviously very intelligent people and are probably very snappy dressers, too, I’d bet.

I did note, however, that only 14 of the who-knows-how-many names that are on this list are (afaik) women. That means either our criteria for awesomeness is either flawed and/or our culture is. I actually think Techmeme is a pretty legit measure of something (as unclear exactly what that might be as it is) and think it points to cultural issues.

Just an idea… but why not include a link to the blog?

Some of the smaller bloggers on the list would appreciate the traffic.

Just wanted to write an illiterate comment full of grammatical errors here in order to stay humble Sorry to any readers’ eyeballs.

Run and hide, Michael. Run and hide. I am coming after you.

So when I saw this post I thought there could be a lot of interpretations as to what a top blogger was. I think a better interpretation to top blogger other than headline counts is to couple headline counts with the authors representing property. That way great writers on smaller blogs could be taken into account more. I ranked the pageviews of each property against the headline at this google spreadsheet link: http://spreadsheets.google.com.....GJU8x-TvYA

*Notes: There are plenty of disparities on this new list,such as bloggers working for larger sites like newyorktimes and for the two bloggers using typepad and blogger I gave them the top pageview ranks. I used compete to get the stats.

@Marshall - I’ll take a stab.

1) in general, women are not as confrontational as men. And as we’ve seen in the blogosphere, controversy draws readers
2) still a big dearth of women in technology, period. This is a fundamental issue that starts at the high school level where students still think that computers are for nerds, and more for boys
3) a lot of women I know often have to work a little bit harder to prove themselves in the work arena, and many of them are juggling families as well (this is not to say that men aren’t, but most of the people I know with young children the majority of the child-rearing still falls on the woman’s shoulders)
4) women in general have a harder time selling themselves as value - too many I know have a hard time charging high enough for their services, let alone their blogging voice, so they may not be able to sell themselves as well
5) women in general are learning the (for lack of better term) “old boys’ school” style of networking. In general, women aren’t as good as helping other women get forward and too often see other women as competition whereas if you look at that list above, you’ll see many of the bloggers are all friends, giving link love and learning that rising tides raises all boats

My list is horribly tainted with a broad brushstroke and is itself controversial but definitely is a topic close to my heart (women in technology)….

As useful as Techmeme can be, when did it become the index of all things tech blogging? Did that post not circulate in the blogosphere.

Yes, it’s a good site but it is hardly the broad, all encompassing data sample this traffic seeking headline suggests. Sometimes its an echo chamber and it hardly includes every noteworthy site or source in this little microcosm.

Anybody know how the techmeme algorithm weights sites? What really happens behind the scenes? What does it take for sites to be regularly part of the index there?

Don’t get me wrong, I like a lot of the bloggers on the list and read their work but I opened this post expecting something real and interesting. Instead I got something almost cheap and self congratulatory. It’s disappointing to see this post on tech crunch. The site has always been better than this.

that’s the reason why techcrunch is so hot!

Just fyi, I didn’t recompile the list as promised because 1) I want to focus getting the fuller, more complete data up on CB, 2) there are naming conflicts which sully the data, and 3) I couldn’t get the formatting to look right for authors with multiple publications in this post. So, my bad on that.

Try this metasearch to find a truth http://www.tripleme.com which fetching results from Google,Yahoo,MSN on one screen in three columns side by side - 3 in 1 solution.

According to TripleMe users statistic data of 20000 requests, 40% of results found in the Google column, 31% of results found in the Yahoo column and 27% of results found in the MSN Live column.

So, if you use only Google - you lost 60% of potential results !!!

3 in 1 solution is definitely the way of searching today.

Thanks a lot for the lovely list guys…….. will surely be very very useful for me. thanks again.

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Interesting list, top few were predictable. Great job!

That is one of the list where I would like my name to appear.:)

Where is my name? LOL. I believe this must have taken a helluva work to come up with the consolidated list. Great Job @ Techcrunch.

Cheers!
Sujoy

So many from Techcrunch. Great!!

This kind of list is always provocative. I like the list for the most influential marketing & PR bloggers - http://adage.com/power150/. They combine several results, including personal opinion. That is in my opinion the best thing to do - combine several reference sources, with the combination oh “human touch”.

While Techmeme may sound like an echo chamber etc it still *is* one of the most important places for tech infos in an overview. And it is no wonder the Techcrunch writers are so far up, because it reflects the gate principal as well - people are more likely to link to TC than to another site. As well are other big sites.

@Henry thanks for pointing out the parameters which always limit the results and their meaning. With the info you point out, one can work with it very nicely. I would separate in the result lists into blogs of the type of zdnet / cnet and multiblogs like TC / Read Write Web and independent because it influences the result list.

@Sujoy that is simple after data import, every decent spreadsheet has tools for that. That list above if base data is given is an effort of 10 min tops.

@Andrew: this is always subjective plus MSN and Yahoo do not play such an important role everywhere, so while it may be nice to look at them relevancy depends on each own standard.

@Marshall of course there are not much women, because most women do not write about the stuff which appears on techmeme.

for some reason, useless posts like this are promoted to front page on reddit and digg.. they consume time that the web is already gnawing away
anyway.. web 3.0 will hopefully be about reducing the noise.. because to be frank, you people are awful noisy..

Please, you should’ve just went with blogs and not bloggers, look how many are listed from Techcrunch, think that is because everything that is written here is great or because everyone links to everything that is written here?

A useful must-read list for budding bloggers. BUT when are we going to see some official ABCe-like readership audit figures for bloggers?

Anyone in this blog list can say ‘the world’s leading tech blog’. Lame I know, but some officially audited user stats would help put a stop to the more indirect claims of popularity.

Sorry, I meant to add:

from kenobi @ contentcontent: The World’s Leading Web Content Blog.

Who said this is a lie? Take a look at this TweetVolume chart…

http://www.tweetvolume.com/ind.....es=Michael Arrington,Erick Schonfeld,Larry Dignan,Duncan Riley,Marshall Kirkpatrick

Here goes the right link.

http://tinyurl.com/3mwskn

Tim O’Reilly ???

Techcrunch rocks! I check Techcruch everyday.

That Sam Lawrence guy should be on this list from gobigalways.com just my opinion.

This shouldn’t be called the ‘Top Tech Bloggers’. This should be called something like ‘Most Prolific Tech Bloggers’ or something - just because your blog doesn’t seem to get onto any of the meme lists doesn’t mean you aren’t a good tech blogger - what about Jeff Atwood, Paul Graham, or Joel Spoelsky? They all write about what I’d consider a dominantly tech-based area. But you won’t see them on any memewatches.

how are these ratings decided ?

this represents a lot of work. thanks for posting it henry. looking forward to the interactive data on CB. will you update this post when the CB data is live?